Hard Times (11/2/09)

A Planned Parenthood poobah suffers an attack of conscience?  Reminds me of this Old Testament passage:

¹⁸Yet I will leave 7,000 in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal and every mouth that has not kissed him."

Are there more PPers like Abby Johnson?

According to Johnson, the non-profit was struggling under the weight of a tough economy, and changing its business model from one that pushed prevention, to one that focused on abortion.

“It seemed like maybe that’s not what a lot of people were believing any more because that’s not where the money was. The money wasn’t in family planning, the money wasn’t in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem with that,” said Johnson.

Johnson said she was told to bring in more women who wanted abortions, something the Episcopalian church goer recently became convicted about. …

Johnson now supports the Coalition For Life, the pro-life group with a building down the street from Planned Parenthood. Coalition volunteers can regularly be seen praying on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. Johnson has been meeting with the coalition’s executive director, Shawn Carney, and has prayed with volunteers outside Planned Parenthood.

Just goes to show that nobody - NOBODY is beyond the reach of God's grace and forgiveness.  And, on the dark side, that in tough economic times, every business must "go back to basics" and focus on their "core product".

If PP doesn't have enough of a cap-ex budget for new dumpsters, do they feed the fetal corpses down their disposals instead?  If any of their facilities have cafeterias, I'd be especially aware of the "mystery meat".

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Guess who's trying to get the band back together?:

Russia has provoked outrage in Poland by simulating an air and sea attack on the country during military exercises.

The armed forces are said to have carried out “war games” in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practised an amphibious landing on the country’s coast.

Documents obtained by Wprost, one of Poland’s leading news magazines, said the exercise was carried out in conjunction with soldiers from Belarus.

Tell me again what Red Barry got for backstabbing the Poles after they stuck their necks out to accept our anti-missile battery?  This makes it pretty damned clear what Warsaw received for their trouble.  Doubly ironic that this puts The One in almost the exact same position as Neville Chamberlain and Eduard Daladier were seventy years ago: weighing whether to guarantee Poland's security against the aggressive intentions of a large neighboring enemy.  The difference being that the latter two actually made the guarantee, even if they didn't meaningfully back it up.  Obamlet won't even get around to doing that much.

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Not-news flash: Jim Moran's a prick:

At a get-out-the-vote rally in Fairfax County, Moran said: “I mean, if the Republicans were running in Afghanistan, they’d be running on the Taliban ticket as far as I can see.”

Moran was talking about Republicans Robert F. McDonnell for governor, Lieutenant-Governor Bill Bolling and state Senator Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, who is running for attorney general. By some accounts, the three represent the most conservative Republican ticket to run in Virginia in many years. Moran’s comments clearly were aimed to motivate Democratic voters to turn out on Tuesday and vote blue.

According to WAMU, McDonnell spokeswoman Crystal Cameron called Moran’s remarks “negative” and “vicious.”

I pass this along for several reasons:

1) This is just more of the same insane slander that vomited forth from the Dems in a tsunami of bile throughout August, when they came face to face with their intended victims, but under no circumstances should we EVER "get used to it."  Not if we want to sacrifice our honor and self-respect.

2) Moran is confused, since his god himself has already declared the Afghan Taliban to be our "partners in peace."

3) It is symptomatic of Donk fear, panic, and answerlessness - especially in "coming home" Virginia, where the GOP is poised to administer the mother of all electoral massacres - and equally as indicative of the kind of scorched earth defensive campaign they'll run in next year's midterms, most likely with very similar results.

4) What does it say about a political party and its core supporters when vile hatemongering is its principal means of motivating and energizing its base?  What's next, anti-GOP lynchings, kidnappings, and general domestic terrorism?  And they call US "extremists" and "haters"?