Stupak

I want to thank the Bishop's of the Catholic Church for being instrumental in the passing of the Stupak Amendment, if for no other reason than it gave the progressives of this country heart burn.  The dems look like a bunch of sell-outs and it also makes it more unlikely that this  bill will pass the Senate.

• Whose health care victory?
• Assault on Women's Reproductive Rights Continues with a Vengeance 
  
• Stupak Amendment Makes a Good Day Bad
• Just so we’re clear
• Dems Sell Women’s Rights Down River Of Health Care Denial
• House Representatives Vote 'No' On Women's Rights, 'Yes' On War
• A Stupak amendment of our own
• Assault on women's reproductive rights continues with a vengeance
• Stupak Amendment Passes; 64 Dems Ask for Primary Opponents 
• NARAL and Planned Parenthood: Ineffectiveness Anti-Choice Democrats Can Rely On

Linky Love

Some linky love:

Stacy McCain hits that old nail again with  Paralysis by Analysis

The Anchoress adds this: The shadow of the jackboot…

And promoted from Hot Air's Green Room to the front page is Doctor Zero's Maybe this time.  It was one of the first things I read this morning and it's excellent...


From Dr. Helen we have Anger is energy   H/T Doug Ross at Journal

And from Doug Ross we have: the Health Care Bill in Ninety Seconds. It covers the main points...

I'd have more links but I must toddle off and watch Cold Case...

See you tomorrow.

USCCB NOT endorsing PeolsiCare

The USCCB has NOT issued a statement in support of PelosiCare

I am a bit appalled at the number of people who have picked this misrepresentation up and are running it down the field.  Even Politico has now changed their article title to "Bishops endorse the amendment" 
with this update at bottom of article "UPDATED: Headline corrected."  This morning that same article title said something giving the impression that the bishops had signed off on the bill with a headline that said Bishops endorse the Bill.


I have read, and reread. the letter from the bishops. They have made it quite clear that they are for reform but at no time do they support this bill.

"The nation and the Congress are now engaged in an intense and much needed national discussion on how to provide affordable and accessible health care for all. We are not experts on health care policy and cannot assess every provision of legislation as complex as this proposal. However, health care legislation is not just political, technical, or economic, but also moral. Health care reform is about life and death, who can take their children to the doctor and who cannot, who can afford decent health care coverage and who are left to fend for themselves."

While I may think the USCCB is a useless organization and their leanings toward "social justice" ignore some pertinent points, I must defend them in this matter.

I suggest that bloggers and news aggregators correct this misrepresentation.  I have always felt the biggest danger to the blogosphere is people not acting as real journalists and fact checking what they write.

Update:

From Hot Air:  Catholic bishops endorse Pelosi Plan with Stupak amendment?

Notice the question mark?

"Now that Pelosi has allowed the Stupak amendment to come to a vote today, a rider that would more forcefully ban any federal funding for abortion coverage, the USCCB has announced that it will endorse the Pelosi plan, according to Politico:"

And the comment section is full of the most virulent anti-Catholic comments.  When their statcounter is low they love to start a Catholic bashing post.  I suggest all you ex-Catholics and people that call yourselves Christians, tend to your own churches. 

Blue Dog Idaho

Minnick (D-ID) statement on House health-care bill

November 6,2009

“Over the last several months, I have met with thousands of constituents from all over Idaho’s First Congressional District. They are gravely concerned about the economy, about job security, and about the kinds of opportunities their children and grandchildren will have to make a better life.

“Like most of them, I believe that cutting down the cost of health care is one important step we can take in moving our economy forward. We need to reform the insurance industry by demanding accountability and increasing private-sector competition. We must reduce government spending on programs such as a Medicare, and look to Idaho for examples of ways to do just that.  And we must reduce costs throughout the health-care system, so the long-term benefits of reform will truly help our economy to grow and our nation to prosper.

“Unfortunately, the new health-care bill in the House does not adequately meet those goals, so I will vote ‘no.’ However, I am encouraged by the work of the U.S. Senate, and I am hopeful that the final bill I vote on will be one that all Idahoans can support.”

I will be calling Mr. Minnick's office today and telling him that I don't want any bill at all. None, nada...

Here's what a thinking American should support:

• Remove government, both federal and state, mandates from insurance providers
• Remove the employer from the health care business
• Open the market to real competition by allowing insurance companies to sell their product across state lines
• Tort reform

CALL THIS LIST OF BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS TODAY AND SUNDAY!!

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Administration
Rep. Baron Hill (IN-09), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Policy
Rep. Charlie Melancon (LA-03), Blue Dog Co-Chair for Communications
Rep. Heath Shuler (NC-11), Blue Dog Whip

Blue Dog Members
Altmire, Jason (PA-04)
Arcuri, Mike (NY-24)
Baca, Joe (CA-43)
Barrow, John (GA-12)
Berry, Marion (AR-01)
Bishop, Sanford (GA-02)
Boren, Dan (OK-02)
Boswell, Leonard (IA-03)
Boyd, Allen (FL-02)
Bright, Bobby (AL-02)
Cardoza, Dennis (CA-18)
Carney, Christopher (PA-10)
Chandler, Ben (KY-06)
Childers, Travis (MS-01)
Cooper, Jim (TN-05)
Costa, Jim (CA-20)
Cuellar, Henry (TX-28)
Dahlkemper, Kathy (PA-03)
Davis, Lincoln (TN-04)
Donnelly, Joe (IN-02)
Ellsworth, Brad (IN-08)
Giffords, Gabrielle (AZ-08)
Gordon, Bart (TN-06)
Griffith, Parker (AL-05)
Harman, Jane (CA-36)
Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie (SD)
Hill, Baron (IN-09)
Holden, Tim (PA-17)
Kratovil, Jr., Frank (MD-01)
McIntyre, Mike (NC-07)
Marshall, Jim (GA-08)
Matheson, Jim (UT-02)
Melancon, Charlie (LA-03)
Michaud, Mike (ME-02)
Minnick, Walt (ID-01)
Mitchell, Harry (AZ-05)
Moore, Dennis (KS-03)
Murphy, Patrick (PA-08)
Nye, Glenn (VA-02)
Peterson, Collin (MN-07)
Pomeroy, Earl (ND)
Ross, Mike (AR-04)
Salazar, John (CO-03)
Sanchez, Loretta (CA-47)
Schiff, Adam (CA-29)
Scott, David (GA-13)
Shuler, Heath (NC-11)
Space, Zack (OH-18)
Tanner, John (TN-08)
Taylor, Gene (MS-04)
Thompson, Mike (CA-01)
Wilson, Charles (OH-06)

Here’s where you can look up their phone numbers: http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Trick or More Trick...

These people will try and squash you like a bug...

American Thinker:  Obama-Pelosi to Health Insurers: Shut Up or We'll Shut You 

President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and their Democratic followers in Congress have a rather draconian message for the private sector: Speak now, and we'll make you forever hold your peace.  read the rest

  House could vote Saturday on health bill

The House could hold a rare Saturday vote this weekend to pass its healthcare reform legislation.

An aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that a vote could happen at 6 p.m. on Saturday, a schedule House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) suggested in reports Wednesday afternoon.

"It could happen at 6 p.m. on Saturday, but no final decisions have been made," said Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for Pelosi. read the rest

  These people are weasels...  

  
National Right to Life Statement on latest pro-abortion ploy by U.S. House Democratic Leadership

WASHINGTON (November 4, 2009, 7 PM EST)  The House Democratic leadership today announced that it will propose a "Rule" on the health care bill, H.R. 3962, that will insert language proposed by Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-In.), and exclude a House vote on an amendment proposed by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.).   The House is expected to vote on the "rule" late Friday or early Saturday.  The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states, supports the Stupak Amendment and opposes the pro-abortion Ellsworth-Waxman-Pelosi language.  NRLC issued the following statement, which may be attributed to NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson.

 

"Any House member who votes for the Pelosi rule is voting to establish a federal government insurance plan, the public option, that the bill explicitly authorizes to pay for all elective abortions.  When a federal agency pays for abortions, that is federal funding of abortion in reality, whatever contrived labels Speaker Pelosi or her acolytes slap over it.  The Ellsworth language is a political fig leaf made out of cellophane -- it directs the federal Secretary of Health to hire a contractor to deliver to abortion providers the payments for elective abortions, payments that are explicitly authorized by the bill [on page 110].  This is a money-laundering scheme -- a federally funded 'bag man' will deliver government funds to abortionists.  This is federal funding of elective abortion."

Go to the National Right to Life site and find out what you can do to help...

Take a few moments to pray for the safety of the people attending the stop health care rally in Washington today...

Obama in Wisconsin

What the hell is he doing in Wisconsin?  Someone needs to add up the cost of this goofs "campaign" trips. Doesn't he have enough to do in Washington?  Today he spent hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars to go and speak to a few hundred middle school children. I also notice that the front page of Google and Yahoo are not saying much about all these trips.

 Supposedly, he's there to praise the great job Wisconsin is doing with education. Really?  Wisconsin has some of the worst scores in the country for blacks in reading and math.

And they just can't let a chance pass to bash Bush can they?

State Sen. Luther Olsen (R-Ripon) said he was still a bit perplexed that the president was coming to Wisconsin at all, what with the economy, health care, Afghanistan and Pakistan on his agenda.

To that, Charles Barone, director of federal policy for Democrats for Education Reform, responded:
"We've got a president who can walk and chew gum at the same time."  Yeah, right. But he can't dance...


Or could there be other reasons??


Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel:
  Is there more to Obama's state visit?President will discuss education; some in GOP question motives


Back to work... 

Keep the Fires Burning

I'm worn out from all the elections yesterday so I'm taking today off. I know, I know - that ruins your day! heh

I must rest up for the rally in DC tomorrow.  I'd go in a heartbeat if I was a bit closer and my schedule wasn't so busy.

Anyone who believes Obama didn't follow the elections last night, raise their hands.  Anyone??  I didn't think so...

Oh Noes!

Hoffman Concedes...

in other news:

Maine voters reject gay-marriage law

Hoffman Race Still Close

From Stacy McCain:

NY23 Election Results HQ; UPDATE:
Team Hoffman predicts 'close' victory

10:29 p.m.: Reports of voting machine malfunctions in St. Lawrence and Fulton Counties. National Review is a bit worried. The Hoffman campaign is still optimistic, but this long delay is stressful. As the percentage of returns increases an early lead for Democrat Bill Owens is shrinking. Whereas Owens led by 8 points with 21% reporting, it's now 5 points with 39% reporting. Stay tuned. read the rest

More Good News...

Republican Chris Christie defeats incumbent Jon Corzine for New Jersey governor's seat

Virginia Race

McDonnell Wins Virginia Race for Governor

Hoffman Race

The Other McCain: NY23 Live from Saranac Lake

I'm counting on Stacy for the news...

One Hoffman volunteer just reported that campaign internal polls show a very close race.

Oh Noes!! I want Canolli tonight!  

Go, Doug!!

If Hoffman wins, I'm making Canolli tonight!

Hoffman

Hoffman ahead in polls...

111 New Government Bureaucarcies Compliments of ObamaCare

111 New Bureaucracies in Pelosi/ObamaCare

To save you the trouble of looking these up - here they are.

1. Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)
2. Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62)
3. Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, p. 72)
4. Program of administrative simplification (Section 115, p. 76)
5. Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)
6. Health Choices Administration (Section 241, p. 131)
7. Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 244, p. 138)
8. Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155)
9. Program for technical assistance to employees of small businesses buying Exchange coverage (Section 305(h), p. 191)
10. Mechanism for insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Commissioner (Section 306(b), p. 194)
11. Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 307, p. 195)
12. State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 308, p. 197)
13. Grant program for health insurance cooperatives (Section 310, p. 206)
14. "Public Health Insurance Option" (Section 321, p. 211)
15. Ombudsman for "Public Health Insurance Option" (Section 321(d), p. 213)
16. Account for receipts and disbursements for "Public Health Insurance Option" (Section 322(b), p. 215)
17. Telehealth Advisory Committee (Section 1191 (b), p. 589)
18. Demonstration program providing reimbursement for "culturally and linguistically appropriate services" (Section 1222, p. 617)
19. Demonstration program for shared decision making using patient decision aids (Section 1236, p. 648)
20. Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicare (Section 1301, p. 653)
21. Independent patient-centered medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302, p. 672)
22. Community-based medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302(d), p. 681)
23. Independence at home demonstration program (Section 1312, p. 718)
24. Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (Section 1401(a), p. 734)
25. Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission (Section 1401(a), p. 738)
26. Patient ombudsman for comparative effectiveness research (Section 1401(a), p. 753)
27. Quality assurance and performance improvement program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1412(b)(1), p. 784)
28. Quality assurance and performance improvement program for nursing facilities (Section 1412 (b)(2), p. 786)
29. Special focus facility program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1413(a)(3), p. 796)
30. Special focus facility program for nursing facilities (Section 1413(b)(3), p. 804)
31. National independent monitor pilot program for skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities (Section 1422, p. 859)
32. Demonstration program for approved teaching health centers with respect to Medicare GME (Section 1502(d), p. 933)
33. Pilot program to develop anti-fraud compliance systems for Medicare providers (Section 1635, p. 978)
34. Special Inspector General for the Health Insurance Exchange (Section 1647, p. 1000)
35. Medical home pilot program under Medicaid (Section 1722, p. 1058)
36. Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicaid (Section 1730A, p. 1073)
37. Nursing facility supplemental payment program (Section 1745, p. 1106)
38. Demonstration program for Medicaid coverage to stabilize emergency medical conditions in institutions for mental diseases (Section 1787, p. 1149)
39. Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund (Section 1802, p. 1162)
40. "Identifiable office or program" within CMS to "provide for improved coordination between Medicare and Medicaid in the case of dual eligibles" (Section 1905, p. 1191)
41. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Section 1907, p. 1198)
42. Public Health Investment Fund (Section 2002, p. 1214)
43. Scholarships for service in health professional needs areas (Section 2211, p. 1224)
44. Program for training medical residents in community-based settings (Section 2214, p. 1236)
45. Grant program for training in dentistry programs (Section 2215, p. 1240)
46. Public Health Workforce Corps (Section 2231, p. 1253)
47. Public health workforce scholarship program (Section 2231, p. 1254)
48. Public health workforce loan forgiveness program (Section 2231, p. 1258)
49. Grant program for innovations in interdisciplinary care (Section 2252, p. 1272)
50. Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Evaluation and Assessment (Section 2261, p. 1275)
51. Prevention and Wellness Trust (Section 2301, p. 1286)
52. Clinical Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 1295)
53. Community Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 1301)
54. Grant program for community prevention and wellness research (Section 2301, p. 1305)
55. Grant program for research and demonstration projects related to wellness incentives (Section 2301, p. 1305)
56. Grant program for community prevention and wellness services (Section 2301, p. 1308)
57. Grant program for public health infrastructure (Section 2301, p. 1313)
58. Center for Quality Improvement (Section 2401, p. 1322)
59. Assistant Secretary for Health Information (Section 2402, p. 1330)
60. Grant program to support the operation of school-based health clinics (Section 2511, p. 1352)
61. Grant program for nurse-managed health centers (Section 2512, p. 1361)
62. Grants for labor-management programs for nursing training (Section 2521, p. 1372)
63. Grant program for interdisciplinary mental and behavioral health training (Section 2522, p. 1382)
64. "No Child Left Unimmunized Against Influenza" demonstration grant program (Section 2524, p. 1391)
65. Healthy Teen Initiative grant program regarding teen pregnancy (Section 2526, p. 1398)
66. Grant program for interdisciplinary training, education, and services for individuals with autism (Section 2527(a), p. 1402)
67. University centers for excellence in developmental disabilities education (Section 2527(b), p. 1410)
68. Grant program to implement medication therapy management services (Section 2528, p. 1412)
69. Grant program to promote positive health behaviors in underserved communities (Section 2530, p. 1422)
70. Grant program for State alternative medical liability laws (Section 2531, p. 1431)
71. Grant program to develop infant mortality programs (Section 2532, p. 1433)
72. Grant program to prepare secondary school students for careers in health professions (Section 2533, p. 1437)
73. Grant program for community-based collaborative care (Section 2534, p. 1440)
74. Grant program for community-based overweight and obesity prevention (Section 2535, p. 1457)
75. Grant program for reducing the student-to-school nurse ratio in primary and secondary schools (Section 2536, p. 1462)
76. Demonstration project of grants to medical-legal partnerships (Section 2537, p. 1464)
77. Center for Emergency Care under the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (Section 2552, p. 1478)
78. Council for Emergency Care (Section 2552, p 1479)
79. Grant program to support demonstration programs that design and implement regionalized emergency care systems (Section 2553, p. 1480)
80. Grant program to assist veterans who wish to become emergency medical technicians upon discharge (Section 2554, p. 1487)
81. Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (Section 2562, p. 1494)
82. National Medical Device Registry (Section 2571, p. 1501)
83. CLASS Independence Fund (Section 2581, p. 1597)
84. CLASS Independence Fund Board of Trustees (Section 2581, p. 1598)
85. CLASS Independence Advisory Council (Section 2581, p. 1602)
86. Health and Human Services Coordinating Committee on Women's Health (Section 2588, p. 1610)
87. National Women's Health Information Center (Section 2588, p. 1611)
88. Centers for Disease Control Office of Women's Health (Section 2588, p. 1614)
89. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Office of Women's Health and Gender-Based Research (Section 2588, p. 1617)
90. Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Women's Health (Section 2588, p. 1618)
91. Food and Drug Administration Office of Women's Health (Section 2588, p. 1621)
92. Personal Care Attendant Workforce Advisory Panel (Section 2589(a)(2), p. 1624)
93. Grant program for national health workforce online training (Section 2591, p. 1629)
94. Grant program to disseminate best practices on implementing health workforce investment programs (Section 2591, p. 1632)
95. Demonstration program for chronic shortages of health professionals (Section 3101, p. 1717)
96. Demonstration program for substance abuse counselor educational curricula (Section 3101, p. 1719)
97. Program of Indian community education on mental illness (Section 3101, p. 1722)
98. Intergovernmental Task Force on Indian environmental and nuclear hazards (Section 3101, p. 1754)
99. Office of Indian Men's Health (Section 3101, p. 1765)
100. Indian Health facilities appropriation advisory board (Section 3101, p. 1774)
101. Indian Health facilities needs assessment workgroup (Section 3101, p. 1775)
102. Indian Health Service tribal facilities joint venture demonstration projects (Section 3101, p. 1809)
103. Urban youth treatment center demonstration project (Section 3101, p. 1873)
104. Grants to Urban Indian Organizations for diabetes prevention (Section 3101, p. 1874)
105. Grants to Urban Indian Organizations for health IT adoption (Section 3101, p. 1877)
106. Mental health technician training program (Section 3101, p. 1898)
107. Indian youth telemental health demonstration project (Section 3101, p. 1909)
108. Program for treatment of child sexual abuse victims and perpetrators (Section 3101, p. 1925)
109. Program for treatment of domestic violence and sexual abuse (Section 3101, p. 1927)
110. Native American Health and Wellness Foundation (Section 3103, p. 1966)
111. Committee for the Establishment of the Native American Health and Wellness Foundation (Section 3103, p. 1968)

Help Fight Pelosi-Care!

Help spread the news. Link to this (or Gateway,  Freedom Works, or reprint it on your blog.)


My friend ebeth has been invited by Michelle Bachman to attend.  I'm hoping she can make it and  will bring back lots of photos and news... 

From Freedom Works by way of  Gateway Pundit:

Rep. Michelle Bachman is calling all Americans to join her on the steps of the Capital Building in Washington DC on Thursday November 5th to stop “the Crown Jewel of Socialism” – the democrat’s bill to take over the US health care industry.

Join all of us on the steps of the Capitol! FreedomWorks is opening our office all week for your convenience. Please come by and get supplies, talk to us, and meet with other patriots.

Thursday morning at 9am we will be hosting a meet and greet/sign making party and handing out resources. We will leave from here to walk to the Capitol. We are within walking distance of the Capitol at 601 Pennsylvania Ave NW, North Building, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20004. Our entrance is on Indiana between 6th and 7th. We will provide the paint, markers and poster board.

If you cannot make it to DC, you can still help! They need to hear your voice now more than ever. Use our War Room for resources and contact information. Please take the time to arrange a visit to your district office. Try to get a meeting with your Congressman. These visits are extremely important, particularly to the fence-sitters in the Pelosi-care debate.

Please feel free to contact Tabitha Hale with any questions! Hope to see you this week!

Update: Michelle Bachman was on Glenn Beck (radio). Since I'm from Minnesota originally it was fun to hear that Minnesota accent (yes, you do have an accent!) After blending my Minnesota accent with 17 years in Houston, I sound like I'm from Chicago. Go figure!


If you live in the DC area try and support her rally on Thur.  

PelosiCare Insanity

Here's even more on this monstrosity of a bill that the elites will try and shove down the unwilling throats of the American people.  The figures are staggering and yet Pelosi and friends will look you right in the eye and tell you that our deficit will go down.  I'm not a math wizard, but it is clear to me that scenario is only in their dreams. 

I also have to question why a family of four, with a household income of $96,000.00, needs to be "heavily subsidized" while "gutting Medicare Advantage to the tune of $170 billion."

Once again, we need to get on our computers, phones, and make use of snail mail to let these thieves in Washington (who, by the way, are exempt from this) know that "we're sick and tired and not going to take it anymore!" 

From the Wall Street Journal:

[...]

In a rational political world, this 1,990-page runaway train would have been derailed months ago. With spending and debt already at record peacetime levels, the bill creates a new and probably unrepealable middle-class entitlement that is designed to expand over time. Taxes will need to rise precipitously, even as ObamaCare so dramatically expands government control of health care that eventually all medicine will be rationed via politics. read the rest and weep

 GOP.gov:  By the Numbers-Speaker Pelosi’s Health Care Bill

and also from GOP.gov : The Pelosi Health Care Bill: Facts and Finds Continued

Perez Hilton Informal Poll

Obama - Sent from God??


Perez Hilton, the infamous queen who attacked Carrie Prejean, is siding with Sting's assesment of Obama as "one sent from God."


Sting also said, referring to this article on Breitbart, that Perez quoted from:

But Sting is serious in his belief that Obama is the best leader to navigate the world's problems. In an interview on Wednesday, the former Police frontman said that he spent some time with Obama and "found him to be very genuine, very present, clearly super-smart, and exactly what we need in the world."
"I can't think of any be better qualified because of his background, his education, particularly in regard to Islam," he said.  from Breitbart

 I jumped to the comments on Perez which numbered 161 as of this morning.  Quite to my surprise, the number of Obama supporters was about five.  If this represents the "younger" voices in America, it gives me hope.  

Here's a sampling of some of the comments (cleaned up a bit).  I might also note, just as on Democratic Underground, the nastiest and most insulting language was used by  Obama supporters. 

Yeah, wait til Obama's hand outs need to be paid for. We are going to be faced with the biggest tax increase and then we will see if he thinks he is God. Obama makes me sick he is tearing apart this country bit by bit and he and that nasty "I hate America" wife need to quit frolicking around on date nights and stay their asses home. 

Oh yeah - Sting is the one to listen to - NOT!! Entertainers should keep their mouths shut about how our country is run- especially when they aren't even citizens. Change is a comin' - liberalism is on its way OUT!!!  
 
You can always tell the people who are moochers and live off handouts and don't pay taxes. LOSERS like Obama!  

Obama is the anti-christ
he is not sent by God - he is sent by the devil. OBAMA IS EVIL 

I just want to scream when I hear the liberal elites talking. You preach about helping your fellow man, but you would never live in my house, my neighborhood, or send your children to my school. You sit in your mansions, go to your parties, collect your awards, dine in the finest places, travel, vacation, and then you turn around and tell me where I should put my hard earned dollars. Leave me alone. I'm too knee deep in reality to buy your ridiculous statements about make believe gods who want MY money to rule the world. 

Hey Sting, does obama give you a tingly feeling up your leg too? obama is the worst. He's a marxist seeking to destroy our USA. Bummer, I used to like sting. 

Obama is a fu**ing jackass. People are quickly starting to see the house of cards crumbling. He is the equivalent of a janitor falling into a CEO position.

MAYBE STNG CAN GO OVER WITH SEAN PENN AND TALK ABOUT WHAT A GREAT MAN HUGO CHAVEZ IS… 

And who gives a fu** what Sting says, Obama is a Communist ruining this country, worse President EVER, hope this country wakes up before it's too late 

 Obama and his Maoist czars are trying to turn the USA into a third-world banana republic. 

Conservatives are not scared of change. They don't want to see our Constitutional rights taken away (censorship of any press is wrong!) and our deficit increased further by a man with an agenda of "change" and who is lying about health care not furthering our debt. He can't decide what to do about the war so soldiers are still in harm's way. His press conferences and town hall meetings are staged. Wake up! Obama is a smart and charismatic man but he's naive and in way over his head. Change for the sake of change is a bad road to take. Time to stop talking and whining and start DOING before it's too late!  

Yeah, it's easy for white liberals, such as Sting, to show such "love" for Obama. Then they can stand up and say, "I have a black friend. He's in the White House." from behind the gates of their mansions. I wonder how many of celebrities and everyday, ordinary liberals realize the party of Obama is the reason slavery and segregation lasted so long. And why are most of are major cities falling into social and economic ruin? They're run by Democrats. 
You friggin liberals do not even realize how much conservatives of all sorts have done for this nation. We're NOT about keeping things the same. We're about conserving values that keep our nation strong and about furthering the advancement of citizens as a whole by showing them how they can help themselves. But a majority of liberals and all liberal musicians and celebrities are so out-of-touch of what's what concerning politics. 
The future of America is conservative regardless of how much liberals like to hinder true progress for the faux progress they push…progress that only aids the government. Liberal progress is like a backhoe pushing dirt. It only lasts until fuel runs out.
Conservative progress is as natural as the oceans' waves. It's not something that'll be refused.

 And finally - the money quote:
 CLEARLY THE STUD KNOWN AS STING IS CRAZIER THAN A SHITHOUSE RAT!!!     

Adrienne dePitera:  Trailing Fuschias, Spokane, Steve Martin, and my favorite store...  

Advice for Sunday, a few things to say, & Linky Love

Might as well get the advice out of the way.  

Do not, I repeat, do not go out in your backyard in your robe and fluffy red backless slippers (that includes all you guys, too!)  If you do, don't cut through a flower bed on the way back to the house, stepping over the rock border.  If you do not follow this advice, your chances of stumbling on the rock border are very high, meaning you will probably make a four point landing (both knees, both hands, while also wrenching your wrists, shoulders, and severely spraining some fingers badly needed for typing).  You will also in all probability not land on the grass but the cement sidewalk. 

If I were to engage in such stupid behavior, know this; I would still manage to sit and type out a post for my loyal readers even while disturbing my quest for Sunday devoutness.

Where to start?  Ok - let's start with Victor Davis Hanson, one of my favorite writers.  This is an illuminating read:   

A Very Interesting Next Three Years
Up is Now Down, Down Up
If one were to collate the public statements and actions of many in the Obama administration, one would conclude that the most conciliatory past language masks the most divisive, polarizing administration in recent history–a fact born out by most polls. Surely this is one of the most radical turnabouts in memory: in a mere ten months the mellifluous voice has become a siren that charms and hypnotizes the voters as they are lured onto the partisan shoals. read the whole article

The handsome Carlos Echevarria has very nicely posted all three parts of Rush's interview on Fox News Sunday.

Big Government brings us this thoughtfully written article: ObamaCare Vs. The Hippocratic Oath
by Dr. David Janda

Senator Mike Pence (R-IN) on CNN: The money quote:  

"This is just another version now lurching out of the back rooms after weeks of closed door negotiations. It just looks like another freight train of big government with more taxes, more mandates and more spending, and that's not what the American people want in health care reform."

More from Mike Pence's Facebook page:

Page 94—Section 202(c) prohibits the sale of private individual health insurance policies, beginning in 2013, forcing individuals to purchase coverage through the federal government

Page 110—Section 222(e) requires the use of federal dollars to fund abortions through the government-run health plan—and, if the Hyde Amendment were ever not renewed, would require the plan to fund elective abortions

Page 111—Section 223 establishes a new board of federal bureaucrats (the “Health Benefits Advisory Committee”) to dictate the health plans that all individuals must purchase —and would likely require all Americans to subsidize and purchase plans that cover any abortion

Page 211—Section 321 establishes a new government-run health plan that, according to non-partisan actuaries at the Lewin Group, would cause as many as 114 million Americans to lose their existing coverage

Page 225—Section 330 permits—but does not require—Members of Congress to enroll in government-run health care Page 255—Section 345 includes language requiring verification of income for individuals wishing to receive federal health care subsidies under the bill—while the bill includes a requirement for applicants to verify their citizenship, it does not include a similar requirement to verify applicants’ identity, thus encouraging identity fraud for undocumented immigrants and others wishing to receive taxpayer-subsidized health benefits

Page 297—Section 501 imposes a 2.5 percent tax on all individuals who do not purchase “bureaucrat-approved” health insurance— the tax would apply on individuals with incomes under $250,000, thus breaking a central promise of then-Senator Obama’s presidential campaign

Page 313—Section 512 imposes an 8 percent “tax on jobs” for firms that cannot afford to purchase “bureaucrat-approved” health coverage ; according to an analysis by Harvard Professor Kate Baicker, such a tax would place millions “at substantial risk of unemployment”—with minority workers losing their jobs at twice the rate of their white counterparts

Page 336—Section 551 imposes additional job-killing taxes, in the form of a half-trillion dollar “surcharge,” more than half of which will hit small businesses ; according to a model developed by President Obama’s senior economic advisor, such taxes could cost up to 5.5 million jobs

Page 520—Section 1161 cuts more than $150 billion from Medicare Advantage plans, potentially jeopardizing millions of seniors’ existing coverage

Page 733—Section 1401 establishes a new Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research; the bill includes no provisions preventing the government-run health plan from using such research to deny access to life-saving treatments on cost grounds, similar to Britain’s National Health Service, which denies patient treatments costing more than $35,000

Page 1174—Section 1802(b) includes provisions entitled “TAXES ON CERTAIN INSURANCE POLICIES” to fund comparative effectiveness research, breaking Speaker Pelosi’s promise that “We will not be taxing [health] benefits in any bill that passes the House,” and the President’s promise not to raise taxes on families with incomes under $250,000

If you would like to read the entire 1,990 pages yourself, you can find the legislation here: http://docs.house.gov/rules/health/111_ahcaa.pdf 

RightKlik has this to say:  ObamaCare: To Be Determined... and he also led me to Solitary Dancer over at My Take on the World who posted even more pesky little details about PelosiCare including a Michelle Bachman vid.

Saint for the Year

Angela Messenger is already busily working on her Saints for the Year Devotion.  For several years she has graciously worked her kazoo off to provide all who ask a saint for the year. This is a special patron just for you.  Angela has wisely set a deadline (it will probably be Dec. 1, like last year, so no dithering.)

And ..............................you don't have to be Catholic to request a saint.  The saints love us all (they just love Catholics more - only kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiding!!!!!)



I already have my saint, Bl. Miguel Augustin Pro,  who was martyred by firing squad in 1927.

"We ought to speak, shout out against injustices, with confidence and without fear. We proclaim the principles of the Church, the reign of love, without forgetting that it is also a reign of justice." Miguel Agustin Pro

 "Does our life become from day to day more painful, more oppressive, more replete with sufferings? Blessed be He a thousand times who desires it so. If life be harder, love makes it also stronger, and only this love, grounded on suffering, can carry the Cross of my Lord, Jesus Christ." Miguel Agustin Pro


  From Mark in Spokane on Oct. 29th:

Still working...    

Work is in overdrive right now. Posting on the blog will be light for the next ten days or so. My apologies for the light posting, but it can't be helped. Gotta keep the lights on and the mortgage paid... 

 Mark then proceeds to post about a gazillion things.  Mark, the first step in overcoming your addictions is to admit you have a problem... I'll walk you through the other 11 steps  :-)

 Wish The Crescat a Happy 5th Blogaversary 

 And for the really big news of the day?  I found spell-check. Can you say right click??  Maybe I should have gone and checked Google when they changed the format.  Simple? Someone with ADD rarely does the simple thing.  We just flounder around until a flash of insight whispers, "Wonder what would happen if I right clicked on that underlined word."  Hmmmmmmmmmmm

Off to get some work done... 

Free Health Care

But, but - it's freeeeeeeeee...

And that, dear reader, is the real reason for the "little people" backers of government run health care.  We have millions of millions of people in this country who have been swamped with "compassion" from the liberal lefties.  They really believe health care will be "free" when the government is paying.

Earth to moonbats - nothing is free.  At the risk of not sounding "nice" - guess what?  I don't want to pay for your health care (even though I'm already toting a big portion of it already.) I'm tired of you cluttering up the emergency room because your kid has a cold while hard-working citizens wait for care.  I'm tired of paying your rent, bailing you out due to your bankruptcy, putting food on your table, and extending your unemployment benefits because you're too good lazy to take a lower paying job. I'm tired of supporting your houseful of illegitimate children while your "baby daddy" is off starting even more families.  I'm tired of you causing the majority of the crime and then screaming victim.  I sick and tired of paying more for an American made product because your union wages drive the prices up.    And I don't want to press 1 for English.  I'm tired of you all...

That being said ....

Red State has one of the most comprehensive overviews, including paragraph numbers for reference, of the 1900 page Pelosi monstrosity.

The Pelosi Bill: Cost, Mandates and Taxes (link)

and also from Red State Democrats Mandate Questionable Care for All Americans (link)

I'm still trying to figure out what "obesity screening" is and why it should be paid for. Shouldn't a properly trained doctor be able to take a look at his patient and make a judgment about the current state of the patient's weight?  Heck, I can take a stroll through Walmart and pass plenty of judgment.

And on to those employer mandates.  Keep your plan? Keep your doctor?  Check out this little survey The Blog Prof provided for us: 

That was fast: Majority of employers in Macomb County, MI ready to dump private healthcare insurance

 Check out your future on government run health care. 

also from The Blog Prof: Vaccination Hell: Thousands Line Up For H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine In Macomb County As Hospitals Ban Children From Visiting Hours!

A "must read" eye opener from Doug Ross at Journal:

SEIU Needs Socialized Medicine to Fill its Underfunded Pensions

 Have a safe Halloween...

All Saints Day

November 1

 God our Father, source of all holiness,
the work of Your hands is manifest in Your saints, the beauty of
Your truth is reflected in their faith.

May we who aspire to have part in their joy
be filled with the spirit that blessed their lives,
so that having shared their faith on earth
may we also know their peace in your kingdom.

Don't forget the clock thingy...spring forward, fall back, doncha know!

Breaking News!

NY23 - Scozzafava Quits!

Just confirmed that Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava has quit the race. Speaking to supporters, Scozzafava broke down in tears. read full coverage at The Other McCain

Stacy has done a remarkable job of following this election... 

PelosiCare must be stopped!

Common sense solutions from the GOP

• Number one: let families and businesses buy health insurance across state lines.
• Number two: allow individuals, small businesses, and trade associations to pool together and acquire health insurance at lower prices, the same way large corporations and labor unions do.
• Number three: give states the tools to create their own innovative reforms that lower health care costs.
• Number four: end junk lawsuits that contribute to higher health care costs by increasing the number of tests and procedures that physicians sometimes order not because they think it's good medicine, but because they are afraid of being sued.

From GOP.com

These are the things that I and just about every thinking American has been saying since day one!

From Sarah Palin's Facebook page

TUNE IN TOMORROW TO HEAR A HEALTH CARE REFORM PLAN THAT WILL PROVE TO BE THE GAME CHANGER

 Today at 3:28pm

Mark my words - tomorrow is the game changer! Tune in to hear common sense solutions that bury the false accusations that conscientious members of Congress have no solutions to meet America's health care challenges.

If you're like me, shaking your head wondering why all the miscommunication between Washington and the American people who have been saying, "Please hear what we're saying about our desire for health care reform," then tomorrow will be a refreshing time of clarity for all.

All Americans, and especially colleagues of House Republican Leader John Boehner: please listen to tomorrow's weekly GOP national address. Rep. Boehner will highlight a common sense alternative to Speaker Pelosi's 1,990-page government takeover of health care. I urge you to watch for it. For a preview, go to: http://HealthCare.GOP.gov

You'll hear solutions. You'll hear of real choices based on America's proven free-market principles. You'll know once and for all what the GOP and Independents have been saying all along about alternatives to another big government take over. After tomorrow, you'll know that accusations against the GOP and Independents for not providing solutions are false. Those claims are bogus. There are alternatives. Tune in to Rep. Boehner's address tomorrow to hear them.

I look forward to the game changer!

- Sarah Palin

What's Hidden in the 1,900 Pages? Your Loss of Freedom!

Welcome Dog Doug Ross readers. Check out today's post while you're here and have a safe Halloween.


Your Friday Health Care Roundup:

• the word "regulation" appears 181 times
• "Tax" - 214 times.
• "Fees" - 103 times.
• The word "shall" - as in "must" or "required to" - appears over 3,000 times.
  

10 Facts Every American Should Know About Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-Page Gov’t Takeover of Health Care
by John Boehner (R-OH)

 Members of Congress and the American people are just beginning to look at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) 1,990-page government takeover of health care, but it’s already becoming clear just how costly and unsustainable this proposal is. From higher taxes on middle-class families to job-killing mandates on small businesses to cuts in Medicare benefits for seniors, here are 10 facts every American should know about Speaker Pelosi’s 1,990-page government takeover of health care: read the rest

H/T Doug Ross at Journal - Larwyn's Linx

It is not the governments job to offer or pay for (that's you and me) end of life counseling.  These matters have always been handled quite nicely between doctor and patient or doctor and family.  There can be no other purpose for this than to coerce people into refusing treatment.  

 Breitbart: It's alive! End-of-life counseling in health bill


Legal Insurrection:   CBO Score - 18 Million Still Uninsured After Spending Over $1 Trillion

Legal Insurrection: It Took Just Minutes To Find Profound Stupidity In Pelosi's Bill

American Spectator:  How Democrats' Health Care Bill Will Punish Businesses, Trigger Unemployment


Washington Times: Constitutionality of health overhaul questioned


Dow Jones Newwire:  CBO Puts House Health Bill Total Cost At $1.055 Trillion

 Gives a great breakdown of the real costs of government run health care

A Must Read:

From One Who Lived Under Communism

I came from where we are heading, I grew up in a Communist country. Unfortunately I see a lot of parallels between the then and there, and the here and now. I look at this national emergency as a manufactured crisis that provides the government with everything to do whatever they please.

There are many rumors, and they may just be rumors about something brewing in DC. This administration has worked very hard to begin a takeover of the government, and I don’t see them stopping. If they make the decision to go that route, no law, not even the Constitution will stand in their way. They are looking for power over the entire nation. read the rest

• Letters from Bishops
• Catholic Teachings
• Action Alerts
• News Releases
• Issue Backgrounders
• Bulletin Announcements

1900 pages designed to rob you of your rights

H/T Freedom Works

This administration is a disgrace and an insult to all Americans

This is nauseating.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, second right, prays together with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, right, in front of the grave of the Poet Muhammad Iqbal, at the Iqbal Memorial in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. Clinton is on a three-day state visit to Pakistan. (AP)

H/T Gateway Pundit

While are attention is being diverted by the constant chatter coming out of DC, including a NINETEEN HUNDRED page health care overhaul bill, the Muslims are continuing their takeover.  While the MSM is not glossing over the latest antics of the loony left,  they are largely silent on the Muslims. 

What I find particularly funny is the very people that support them will be the first to get their heads chopped off.  These people are a threat and the sooner the American people drop their phony politically correct stance on "tolerance", the better off we'll be. 

Related:  

The Blog Prof:  FBI kills leader of radical Muslim Mosque In Dearborn, MI; 8 others in custody after raid
Jihad Watch:  Detroit imam and Misunderstander of Islam called followers to "offensive jihad"

And while our president praises Islam and Hillary prays in their mosque, France is doing it's best to rid its county of Islam.  What's wrong with this picture?

Atlas Shrugged:  Sarkozy Fights the Islamisation  of France

After reading my usual gazillion articles this morning (and setting aside those I felt most important), I arrive at Moonbattery.  This video trumps anything else I read or saw.  Thanks Moonbattery...

After having some fruit for breakfast, I'll be back.

Doug Hoffman

I've been following the NY23 race in which it appears Doug Hoffman, running as an independent, is pulling way ahead in the polls.  Stacy McCain has been doing an exemplary job of tracking and reporting the race.  Today Rush spent quite a bit of time on what's going on and Da Techguy has been all over it, too.

I've always subscribed to what is  Rush's position that to have a third party will just split the vote and guarantee a win for the side you hate, which I guess depends on which side you are on to know which one you  hate (did that make sense?)  On the other hand Glenn Beck backs the idea of a third party.

I still haven't made up my mind but I do know the Hoffman race is important for two reasons.  One - it shows the incumbents that the American people are dead serious about not wanting anymore socialist wannabe's in elected positions.  Two - and most importantly - it shows the American people that the scum bags can be defeated.

Today many more Democrats are making uncomplimentary noises about the health care legislation.  Is it possible they have stuck a wet finger in the air to test which way the wind is blowing?

Left Coast Rebel has this to say:

[...]
What is the endgame? Is this not obvious, reader? The endgame is electing conservatives. The endgame is supporting true Obamanation detractors. The endgame is not giving a rat's tooshie about an 'R' by a candidate's name when the 'R' is more 'L' than even the 'D'. Is this so hard to understand? It is within the confines of the prism of integrity. read the whole post

Related:

 Michelle Malkin:  Harrycare in trouble: Dems bail, Lieberman supports filibuster

The Blog Prof takes a look at the 60 Minutes special on the governments ability to run anything, including health care.   60 Minutes (!!!) asks "can gov't manage a medical bureaucracy?" after investigating Medicare fraud

As many people, including moi, have said,

"If you're planning on partially funding socialized medicine with the savings from wiping out the billions of fraud taking place now - how about doing that first.  Are we to believe that only by passing a bill guaranteed to bankrupt the country, we can stop the fraud and abuse? How stupid do you think we are?"  Quote is mine. Wanted to see how I looked all squished up in the center of the page. Nice!

 Adrienne dePitera:  Clutter, Tulips, and Linky Love

Monday Winners

I'm not real fond of Monday's. It just seems like accomplishing anything on Monday is harder. I've spend a little over two three four hours scanning the news and blog posts and only a few items have caught my attention.

The rest was more re-hash of things that any thinking person already knows. Everything else fell into the category of bloggers and news agencies scrapping the bottom of the barrel in an attempt to say something - anything - that will constitute a post. Got to keep those posts rolling along, doncha know!  Well no, no you don't. I think I'll spend today doing something instead of saying something.

After scanning approximately 300 500 on-line missives, only three five caught my eye.

And today's winners for catching my attention are:

Nunly over at Bad Habit has this to say about the recent upsurge in Catholic bashing (and says it quite well!)
MY SUNDAY SERMON…OK, IT’S A RANT

While it's ok to criticize the Catholic Church and marginalize Christians of all stripes, the European Union is set to outlaw objections to Islamic practices.  But hang on for the money quote of the day:

If all goes as planned, the 27 member states of the European Union will soon have a common hate crime legislation, which will turn disapproval for Islamic practices or homosexual lifestyles into crimes.

I find it ironic that these two groups should be lumped together.  Islam supports the notion of cutting off the heads of homosexuals.  read the rest at Jihad Watch


Want to know the environmental  impact of your blog?   LarryD at Acts of Apostasy may have the answer for you as he discusses the Swedes latest bit of craziness to "save the planet."  

And Dr. Sanity sheds even more light on the crazies who populate the enviro movement. From her article Envro-Drivel:

... leftist/radical environmentalism is nothing more than one of the rhetorical strategies that are being used to undermine democracy and capitalism and promote socialism/communism and fascism. Do yourself a favor and read her entire piece.

My favorite "non-ignorant" Redneck has this to say about the recent news of some Anglicans entering the Catholic Church:  O-Ye-of-Little Faith  Good job Redneck!!

And while  brave soldiers are dying in Afghanistan, our president plays golf and obsesses on how to ram through so-called "health care" that no one wants.  What a shame and scandal!

See ya'll later...


 


 

Posting Cancelled Due to Global Warming

Since global warming has caused an extremely early fall with lower than normal temperatures, my outside "button up for winter" work is woefully behind schedule.

Today I will tackle the area designated as our backyard.  After cutting back and pulling up, I will crank up the lawn tractor and cut about 3 acres. The other three acres or so of gardens may be waiting until spring (which is a nightmare.)

If you haven't read this fine post I shamelessly stole from Father Longenecker, please take the time to do so.


"The Slippery Slope: How Satan spreads his lies"

by Fr. Dwight Longenecker



Remembering Summer at Adrienne dePitera

"Hate" Crimes Bill & A Must Read!

By tacking the hate crimes bill onto a defense bill, the elites in Washington were able to get it passed.  And there is no doubt Obama will sign it. If the bill was so important and so worthy, it should have been made to stand on its own, not slipped through by means of subterfuge.

The potential for abuse in prosecuting people under such a law is staggering. Exactly how do you define when someone committed a specific act driven by hatred?  Will the police or courts take the word of  friends of the perpetrator that he used the word fag or dyke on more than one occasion?  And what about the person who is called a filthy heterosexual while being robbed and beaten? Will they receive the same considerations by the court?  I think not.  Which means that the bill is actually creating an inequality. As for me - the next time I rob a bank, I'll be sure to go to the white teller and not the black one.

A Must Read

I stole this over at Abbey-Roads, who stole it from Father Longenecker ( and had the audacity to even give it a new title.)  Thank goodness they're both white. 

The Agenda...

(Retitled from Fr. Longenecker's "The Slippery Slope: How Satan spreads his lies")
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1. Natural Law is ignored, undermined or made to look stupid by particular instances where it seems not apply.

2. Subsequently religious and civil authorities have their laws questioned because they are 'too strict' too 'black and white', 'unworkable' or 'lacking in compassion'.

3. Relativism is therefore introduced. An understanding gradually grows that 'there are no objective rule' that apply to all people at all times.

4. Individualism is the next step. 'I guess I have to decide what is right for me in my situation.'

5. Sentimentalism: People who live in a sinful situation demand that they not be judged. They deserve compassion and understanding. They are nice people really...but they have a problem. They're sick. They're wounded. Who are you to judge?

6. Dialogue is demanded. "You need to listen to us and to our stories. Then you will understand we are just like you."

7. Once sympathy is won, the goalposts are moved. Now they are not 'sick' or 'wounded' they're just 'different'. They expect to be accepted despite their 'differences'.

8. Equal rights are expected by those who are acting against God's law. "We are not asking you to approve us. We are simply asking you to tolerate a difference of opinion. Simply allow us to be who we are!"

9. Equal rights are demanded. Legislation and lobbying and protests are now in order. The pressure group for sin starts to get aggressive. They do so out of 'hurt' and 'woundedness.' Once they get their 'rights' (they claim) they will be happy and won't be so aggressive.

10. Tolerance being won, they will not stop. They now demand not only that you tolerate, but that you approve. They've moved from being 'sick' or 'wounded' or 'disabled' by their condition to tolerance, and now they proclaim their condition to be 'good'. As Thomas More was not allowed to remain silent on the King's 'great matter' but had to approve, so the presssure group insists on approval.

11. What was once tolerated now becomes mandatory. Society must integrate the new morality into every level--right down to schools and churches and scout groups. Everyone must adopt the new morality or suffer.

12. Persecution of those who resist.

13. Devil's real happy. -

This process happens on an individual level, a family level, a community level and a societal level. The bigger the level the longer it takes, and for it to take effect at the societal, community and family level it must first work on the individual level.

This means you and I must watch for the signs in our own moral life and be alert. Any of us can go down this path, and any of us may be victims of those who are already well down the path of evil and darkness.  

Thank you, Fr. Longenecker

Father L. has a number of excellent books he has written. With Christmas coming up, you may want to consider one of his books as a gift...

Related:

Social Conservatives Blast Hate-Crime Bill, Saying It Will Limit Free Speech

At my "happy squishy" blog:

 Adrienne dePitera: Feeling Rich Friday