The Final version of a bill to protect a baby that survived a botched abortion attempt DID have protections in it so that the bill could not be used against Roe v Wade. Still, Obama voted against a Baby's Right to Life.
Obama's Response:
Statement from Gianna Jessen: "Mr. Obama is clearly blinded by political ambition given his attack on me this week. All I asked of him was to do the right thing: support medical care and protection for babies who survive abortion – as I did 31 years ago. He voted against such protection and care four times even though the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of a bill identical to the one Obama opposed. In the words of his own false and misleading ad, his position is downright vile. Mr. Obama said at the recent Saddleback Forum that the question of when babies should get human rights was above his pay grade. Such vacillation and cowardice in public policy almost left me to die and no one should have to go through what I went through."
Statement from Jill Stanek: "It is despicable, repulsive and beneath contempt that Barack Obama would attack Gianna Jessen. She is a courageous abortion survivor and living miracle who would not be with us today if Obama's policies had been in place when she was born. Mr. Obama continues to mislead the American people on this issue, he voted four times against medical care and protection for babies who survive abortions in the Illinois State Senate, while the U.S. Senate was voting 98-0 to pass an identical bill. Mr. Obama needs to come forward and tell the American people that he understands people like Gianna Jessen, and that he will support and enforce Born Alive Infant protections -- that these are living, breathing human beings who have come into our world and deserve protection in the law and should receive medical care at health care facilities. These babies have the same rights as the rest of us."
I listen to the sweet music, in my ears. music that shares the power of GOD.
A creation from the ether notes and voice, out of thin air.
millions of galaxies billions of stars trillions of planets in a never ending universe.
boggles the mind to imagine where it all began where it all came from.
designs too intricate to be happenchance. constructed perfectly, all the pieces and parts, fingers, hands, eyes thoughts, ideas, emotions atoms, cells, bodies
all too perfect all to lovingly here
and you cannot distill this down to human ideas cannot enclose it in a box
[NOTE: after re-reading this poem, I wanted to make a point of clarification. I'm not saying that God, in general is too small for me. I'm saying that the various boxed-up god of many religions is too small for me, for my perception of GOD is so much bigger.]
weekly yardsale scavenge: Library additions
Current mood: awake
Category: Writing and Poetry
Books:
Great Dialogues of Plato complete texts of The Republic, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Ion, Meno, Symposium translation by W.H.D. Rouse
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Story of Philosophy The lives and opinions of the world's greatest philosophers from Plato to John Dewey by Will Durant
My Secret Life An Erotic Diary of Victorian London by Anonymous, Edited and with Introduction by James Kincaid The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Black Boy by Richard Wright The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs
World's Greatest Books (published 1913) Vol. XVIII Poetry and Drama (Ovid, Alexander Pope, Shakespeare, Shelley, Sophocles, Tennyson, Richard Wagner, others) Vol. XX Miscellaneous Literature (Aesop, Thomas Carlye, Cicero, Daniel Dafoe, Demosthenes, Erasmus, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leonardo Da Vince, John Milton, Plutarch, Tactitus, Taine, Henry David Thoreau, De Rocquerville, others) Vo. XIX Travel and Adventure (Sir Richard Burton, Charles Darwin, James Cook, David Livingston, Marco Polo, Voltaire, others)
Music:
Heart - Little Queen Dan Fogelberg - The Innocent Age Prince - The Ultimate Prince The Byrds - The Byrds Greatest Hits The Allman Bros. - The Allman Bros. at Fillmore East Jimi Hendrix - Hendrix In The West Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns Spirit - Spirit Boston - Boston
Currently
listening
:
Diamonds and Pearls
By
Prince & the New Power Generation
Release date: 1991-10-01
Palin Derangement Syndrome strikes again. This time it's hysterical librarians and their readers on the Internet disseminating a bogus list of books Gov. Sarah Palin supposedly banned in 1996. Looks like some of these library people failed reading comprehension. Take a look at the list below and you'll find books Gov. Palin supposedly tried to ban…that hadn't even been published yet. Example: The Harry Potter books, the first of which wasn't published until 1998.
The smear merchants who continue to circulate the list also failed to do a simple Google search, which would have showed them that the bogus Sarah Palin Banned Book List is almost an exact copy-and-paste reproduction of a generic list of "Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States" that has been floating around the Internet for years. STACLU notes that the official Obama campaign website is also perpetuating the fraud. And it's spread to craigslist, where some unhinged user is posting images likening Palin to Hitler. Here it is again.
The person who first spread the Palin smear is identified as "Andrew Aucoin," a commenter on the blog of librarian Jessamyn West. West has done the right thing in keeping the bogus comment up and pointing out in her main post that "there appears to be no truth to the claim made by the commenter, and no further documentation or support for this has turned up."
It's a fake. Not true. Total B.S. A lie.
If it gets sent to you by a moonbat friend or family member, set 'em all straight. Fight the smears. They've only just begun.
The bogus Sarah Palin Banned Books List:
This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned. As many of you will notice it is a hit parade for book burners.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Blubber by Judy Blume Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Carrie by Stephen King Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Christine by Stephen King Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cujo by Stephen King Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Decameron by Boccaccio East of Eden by John Steinbeck Fallen Angels by Walter Myers Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes Forever by Judy Blume Grendel by John Champlin Gardner Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Have to Go by Robert Munsch Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Impressions edited by Jack Booth In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Lord of the Flies by William Golding Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein Lysistrata by Aristophanes More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier My House by Nikki Giovanni My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara Night Chills by Dean Koontz Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ordinary People by Judith Guest Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz Separate Peace by John Knowles Silas Marner by George Eliot Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Bastard by John Jakes The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks The Living Bible by William C. Bower The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders The Shining by Stephen King The Witches by Roald Dahl The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
Michelle Malkin's blog @ http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/06/the-bogus-sarah-palin-banned-books-list/
Let's sail away Find our own country We'll build a house and beds out of palm trees Let's get away Let's push our lives aside
I'll sport a smile Take in some color Under the stars I'll be your lover With no distractions I'm gonna treat you right
Well it seems like things are only getting better Well it seems like we can never catch a break
Just a keep a hold on me don't let go If you float away, if you float away Waiting too long for a ship to come Don't you float away, don't you float away
Let's go to bed Let's stop debating Look at the time We're always waiting But we're in love And that should be just fine
Well it seems like things are only getting better Well it seems like we can never catch a break
Just keep a hold on me don't let go If you float away, if you float away Waiting too long for a ship to come Don't you float away, don't you float away [x2]
And if you like (and if you like) and if you like some other time I would like to introduce you to the finer things If we survive (if we survive) If we survive, get out alive I'd like to say how beautiful I think you...
Just a keep a hold on me don't let go If you float away, if you float away Waiting too long for a ship to come Don't you float away, don't you float away
A couple of weeks ago I discovered the fabulous WORD JAZZ with Ken Nordine on NPR radio. On my midnight hour-long ride home from work on Sunday nights I listen to the hour-long Word Jazz presentation. Alla you poets and writers must listen to this program. Here is an excerpt, but the complete show is simply amazing.
The anointed one's pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers
by Gerard Baker
And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.
The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.
When he was twelve years old, they found him in the temple in the City of Chicago, arguing the finer points of community organisation with the Prophet Jeremiah and the Elders. And the Elders were astonished at what they heard and said among themselves: "Verily, who is this Child that he opens our hearts and minds to the audacity of hope?"
In the great Battles of Caucus and Primary he smote the conniving Hillary, wife of the deposed King Bill the Priapic and their barbarian hordes of Working Class Whites. Background
And so it was, in the fullness of time, before the harvest month of the appointed year, the Child ventured forth - for the first time - to bring the light unto all the world.
He travelled fleet of foot and light of camel, with a small retinue that consisted only of his loyal disciples from the tribe of the Media. He ventured first to the land of the Hindu Kush, where the
Taleban had harboured the viper of al-Qaeda in their bosom, raining terror on all the world.
And the Child spake and the tribes of Nato immediately loosed the Caveats that had previously bound them. And in the great battle that ensued the forces of the light were triumphant. For as long as the Child stood with his arms raised aloft, the enemy suffered great blows and the threat of terror was no more.
From there he went forth to Mesopotamia where he was received by the great ruler al-Maliki, and al-Maliki spake unto him and blessed his Sixteen Month Troop Withdrawal Plan even as the imperial warrior Petraeus tried to destroy it.
And lo, in Mesopotamia, a miracle occurred. Even though the Great Surge of Armour that the evil Bush had ordered had been a terrible mistake, a waste of vital military resources and doomed to end in disaster, the Child's very presence suddenly brought forth a great victory for the forces of the light.
And the Persians, who saw all this and were greatly fearful, longed to speak with the Child and saw that the Child was the bringer of peace. At the mention of his name they quickly laid aside their intrigues and beat their uranium swords into civil nuclear energy ploughshares.
From there the Child went up to the city of Jerusalem, and entered through the gate seated on an ass. The crowds of network anchors who had followed him from afar cheered "Hosanna" and waved great palm fronds and strewed them at his feet.
In Jerusalem and in surrounding Palestine, the Child spake to the Hebrews and the Arabs, as the Scripture had foretold. And in an instant, the lion lay down with the lamb, and the Israelites and Ishmaelites ended their long enmity and lived for ever after in peace.
As word spread throughout the land about the Child's wondrous works, peoples from all over flocked to hear him; Hittites and Abbasids; Obamacons and McCainiacs; Cameroonians and Blairites.
And they told of strange and wondrous things that greeted the news of the Child's journey. Around the world, global temperatures began to decline, and the ocean levels fell and the great warming was over.
The Great Prophet Algore of Nobel and Oscar, who many had believed was the anointed one, smiled and told his followers that the Child was the one generations had been waiting for.
And there were other wonderful signs. In the city of the Street at the Wall, spreads on interbank interest rates dropped like manna from Heaven and rates on credit default swaps fell to the ground as dead birds from the almond tree, and the people who had lived in foreclosure were able to borrow again.
Black gold gushed from the ground at prices well below $140 per barrel. In hospitals across the land the sick were cured even though they were uninsured. And all because the Child had pronounced it.
And this is the testimony of one who speaks the truth and bears witness to the truth so that you might believe. And he knows it is the truth for he saw it all on CNN and the BBC and in the pages of The New York Times.
Then the Child ventured forth from Israel and Palestine and stepped onto the shores of the Old Continent. In the land of Queen Angela of Merkel, vast multitudes gathered to hear his voice, and he preached to them at length.
But when he had finished speaking his disciples told him the crowd was hungry, for they had had nothing to eat all the hours they had waited for him.
And so the Child told his disciples to fetch some food but all they had was five loaves and a couple of frankfurters. So he took the bread and the frankfurters and blessed them and told his disciples to feed the multitudes. And when all had eaten their fill, the scraps filled twelve baskets.
Thence he travelled west to Mount Sarkozy. Even the beauteous Princess Carla of the tribe of the Bruni was struck by awe and she was great in love with the Child, but he was tempted not.
On the Seventh Day he walked across the Channel of the Angles to the ancient land of the hooligans. There he was welcomed with open arms by the once great prophet Blair and his successor, Gordon the Leper, and his successor, David the Golden One.
And suddenly, with the men appeared the archangel Gabriel and the whole host of the heavenly choir, ranks of cherubim and seraphim, all praising God and singing: "Yes, We Can."
I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars
I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars
Look at me, look at me, Hands in the air like it's good to be
ALIVE
And I'm a famous rapper Even when the paths're all crookedy I can show you how to do-si-do I can show you how to scratch a record I can take apart the remote control And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem I can tell you about Leif Ericson I know all the words to "De Colores" And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus Me and my friend made a comic book And guess how long it took I can do anything that I want cuz, look:
I can keep rhythm with no metronome No metronome No metronome
And I can see your face on the telephone On the telephone On the telephone
Look at me Look at me Just called to say that it's good to be
Alive
In such a small world I'm all curled up with a book to read I can make money open up a thrift store I can make a living off a magazine I can design an engine sixty four Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics I can make computers survive aquatic conditions I know how to run a business I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers Me and my friends understand the future I see the strings that control the systems I can do anything with no assistance
Cuz I can lead a nation with a microphone With a microphone With a microphone
And I can split the atom of a molecule Of a molecule Of a molecule
Look at me Look at me Driving and I won't stop And it feels so good to be Alive and on top
My reach is global My tower secure My cause is noble My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations Or let'em all die in exasperation Have'em all healed of their lacerations Have'em all killed by assassination I can make anybody go to prison Just because I don't like'em. And I can do anything with no permission I have it all under my command
Because I can guide a missile by satellite By satellite By satellite
And I can hit a target through a telescope Through a telescope Through a telescope
And I can end the planet in a holocaust In a holocaust In a Holocaust In a HoloCAUST In a HOLOCAUST In a HOLOCAUST!
I can ride my bike with no handlebars No handlebars No handlebars
aggravated
annoyed
thoughtful
cantankerous
inquisitive
I listen to the sweet music,
awake
bullied
silly
working
creative
