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http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/23/hospital-kills-wrong-twin-in-abortion-both-babies-now-dead

Hospital Kills “Wrong” Twin in Abortion, Both Babies Now Dead
by Steven Ertelt | Melbourne, Australia | LifeNews.com | 11/23/11 6:28 PM

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A hospital in Australia making news for having killed the “wrong” twin in an abortion of a healthy unborn child when the mother of the babies wanted an abortion on her child who doctors said had little chance to live. Now, both babies are dead.

The Herald Sun newspaper reports that the unnamed woman from Victoria had already named her unborn children when doctors told her one of the unborn babies had a congenital heart defect that would requires years of operations, assuming the baby survived long enough to have them. The mother decided to have an abortion, terminating the life of one of her unborn children and allowing the other baby to live.

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[JR: This is a tragedy in thinking. The meme is all wrong. By trying "to play God", everyone involved is responsible for this disaster in miniature. And, while the best "medical minds" may have presumed that the "sick" twin would have all these troubles, how can they be sure? And, that ignores the possibilities of medical progress in knowledge, new technology, someone with better skills, someone with a novel approach, new drugs, or even just an old-fashioned miracle. And, so what if the "sick" twin has a shortened lifespan, even if it's just a day. Are we judged by how we treat everyone on this life boat called "Earth". To the best of our ability! Makes the moral choices much easier. And, "accidents" like this aren't as likely. Seems an appropriate rant for Christmas Eve. Dona Nobis Pacem!]

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http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/25/man-accuses-ex-girlfriend-of-stealing-sperm-making-twins/

Man Accuses Ex-Girlfriend of Stealing Sperm, Making Twins

by Steven Ertelt | Houston, TX | LifeNews.com | 11/25/11 6:01 PM

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A new and unusual criminal case out of Houston, Texas highlights some of the problems with the fertility industry shown in a new video that is getting attention within pro-life circles.

In this case, a Texas man is upset his former girlfriend stole his sperm and used it to produce two twins via in-vitro fertilization without his permission. The man says he had no idea what happened until he received a receipt from the fertility clinic addressed to him.

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From the story:

“Actually, I couldn’t believe it could be done. I was very, very devastated. I couldn’t believe that this fertility clinic could actually do this without my consent, or without my even being there,” Pressil said, adding artificial insemination is against his religious beliefs.

Pressil’s ex-girlfriend sued for and was granted child support after blood tests confirmed he is the father.

“That’s a violation of myself, to what I believe in, to my religion, and just to my manhood,” Pressil said.

“It’s not what you’re thinking when you’re in a relationship,” said Jason Gibson, Pressil’s attorney. “That’s not what most people are thinking, that their partner is going to get a special condom, use that condom as soon as you’re done having sex, run off to the fertility clinic to go have an IVF procedure. That’s certainly not what my client was thinking,” Gibson said.

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[JR: Excuse me? “his religious beliefs” Now that’s a real thigh slapper. I’ll have to call on Key West Lou, my friend John D, Tax Defender, Richie F, and all the other Jasper lawyers to opine on this one. I imagine, that under cross examination of the complainant, the defense attorney might inquire as to the depth of those beliefs. Given that it was his obviously religious fervor that led to filing charges. Hmmm, having pre-marital sex with one’s GIRL FRIEND is OK religion-wise. How about that condom stuff? ROFL! I’d order, as they say on Law ‘n’ Order, 731 psych evals all around. Why would the woman want to have children with this “catch”? And, ewww, running around with a “special condom”. Used! Yuck!!! I’d expect this on Comedy Central. And, hey Esquire, (the guy’s lawyer) , we know exactly what your Client was thinking … … with his “little brain”. Guess the guy should have went to MC Biology class: “If you don’t dip your pen, you never have support problems.” Argh! To me, this is symptomatic of what’s wrong with “us” and a waste of the court time, better spent on corrupt politicians. About the only thing that would make this story funnier, would be if he was a politician. Please, make my day! I feel true sorrow for the twins in this case. One can only hope that they can over come a rough start. Certainly will make for interesting “family time” at the holidays.]

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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/catholic-high-school-refuses-to-allow-student-led-conservative-club-on-campus/

CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL REFUSES TO ALLOW STUDENT-LED CONSERVATIVE CLUB ON CAMPUS
Posted on November 4, 2011 at 3:02pm by Billy Hallowell

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La Reina High School, an all-girls Catholic educational facility located in Thousand Oaks, California, has endured some heat after refusing to allow a student to launch a conservative club on campus.

In a story that has gone widely unreported, a battle has been brewing between the school’s administrators and Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), an arm of Young Americans Foundation, a prominent organization that helps spread conservative ideals.

The drama commenced at the end of the last school year when Isabelle Foxen, who is now a junior at La Reina, decided that she wanted to launch a YAF chapter at the school. In an exclusive interview with the Blaze, Isabella’s mother, Cristine Foxen, explained that there was already a political interest group on the school’s campus, but she described it as a “very one-sided“ and ”liberal” group.

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Unfortunately, the Blaze was not able to verify the current status of these clubs or get a response to the quotes recalled by the mother, as accessing individuals at both the Los Angeles Archdiocese and La Reina has been difficult at best. In a brief conversation with Dr. Gomez, we were told that someone would respond to us. After we placed a number of follow-up calls, the Blaze was forwarded to the archdiocese (they, too, ignored our attempts for comment).

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Normally, I’d have did a “ho hum” and rolled right along.

I thought the name was odd for a “Catholic” high school. My rusty Manhattan Prep Spanish was enough to know that “La Reina” is spanish for “Queen”.

I looked at the website and saw pictures of all Caucasian girl students.

That’s odd.

Poking around on the website, http://www.lareina.com/about/index.asp, I found the mission statement: “La Reina High School is a Catholic college preparatory school for young women in the tradition, vision, and educational principles of the Sisters of Notre Dame. La Reina provides a nurturing, Catholic environment of educational excellence, focused on helping young women develop into moral and self-confident leaders, who work for the transformation of individuals and society. Students are given opportunities to foster their relationship with God, to grow intellectually, to develop their individual gifts, and to be catalysts for the promotion of justice locally, nationally and globally.”

I found the story and the statement inconsistent. If a reporter asks a question, it’s polite to answer it.

Then, at the last line of the statement, which I had to read twice to pick up on, “promotion of justice locally, nationally, and globally” jumped off the screen at me.

Our old “friend” “Social Justice”!

So this is Socialism wrapped up in the label “Catholic”. And, immediately, the whole story makes sense.

This is the “Secular Progressive” version of “Catholic”. It’s all designed to transfer power from the individual, made in the Image and Likeness, to the Government who replaced God in our lives.

So now I “see”!

It’s just another strategy in crippling a competitor to the Government as the Queen Bee of the human hive.

Where’s Zorro when you need him?

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http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/a-reality-based-approach-to-childrens-stake-in-marriage-dispute

A ‘reality-based’ approach to children’s stake in marriage dispute
By Benjamin Mann

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San Francisco, Calif., Oct 9, 2011 / 06:02 pm (CNA).- As California’s largest gay activist group Equality California launches its new “Breakthrough Conversation Project” to change public opinion on marriage, Catholics for the Common Good wants to talk about what society’s basic institution really is – and who loses out if it is redefined.

“We are taking an entirely fresh approach to communicating the reality of marriage in secular society,” said William B. May, founder and chairman of the San Francisco-based group that promotes Catholic social teaching on society’s common interest. “Marriage is the reality that unites a man and a woman with each other and any children born from their union.”

“We call it a ‘reality-based’ approach – reality, as an antidote to relativism,” May told CNA on Oct. 6. “We’re looking at the reality of marriage from the perspective of the child.”

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“Underlying the proposal to redefine marriage, is an assumption that marriage is merely the committed relationship between two loving people,” he said. “And a lot of us think of marriage in terms of the adult perspective, and the benefit for adults.”

“That’s a private interest – and that’s not what marriage really is.”

“Marriage is more than that. It’s a communion of persons. And when we look at it from the perspective of the child, it’s the heart’s desire of every person – without exception – to be united with, and to know, the man and woman that they came from. That’s part of who we are.”

“What’s happening now, with the redefinition of marriage in the minds of people, is that more and more children are becoming deprived of that experience – which is a human right – to be born into, and raised in, a family with a mother and a father united in marriage.”

Society and culture, May explained, have perennially defined marriage in this manner for the sake of binding men and women to fulfill this duty to their children.

Thus, any redefinition weakens the unique cultural and legal standing of the only institution that secures the integral bond between children and parents.

“The harm is this,” he said. “By redefining marriage as merely the public recognition of a relationship between adults, we essentially ban the promotion of marriage as the only institution that unites a man and a woman with each other and any children born from their union.”

“It creates a conflict with the human rights of the child, to know and be cared for by their mother and father in the union of a marriage.”

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I continue to assert that the Gooferment should have no role in “marriage”, its definition, or anything related to it.

Not everything requires the Gooferment’s “involvement”.

Some things are Constitutionally reserved to “The People” and to the individual States. (You must remember them. Before everything became a “federal case”.)

This author’s attempt to fight the battle on children’s rights fails to note that it’s possible to be “married” and not have any children.

I’d prefer to fight the battle on the “MYOB” basis.

“Marriage” is only the Gooferment’s business because of racism and the tax code. Further, redefining marriage is a contra-survival act of a nation on the decline. (Remember Rome’s excesses?) Along

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[JR: In addition to a Google Reader problem, the ENDNOTE was truncated. Argh! ]

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http://takimag.com/article/truth_charity/print#axzz1bvz5cjBe

Truth & Charity
by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
August 07, 2009

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The system we have now involves a government-privileged central bank with a monopoly on the creation of legal-tender money, charged with watching over a cartel of ostensibly private but also state-privileged commercial banks. Its debasement of money makes it very difficult for people to save for the future without having to become speculators of one kind or another. A hard-money system, on the other hand, permitted the average person to save for the future simply by accumulating precious-metal coins, which, back in the days when they served as money, held or increased their value over time. Who today would save for the future by piling up Federal Reserve Notes? Society’s most vulnerable now must enter the stock market or take other kinds of risks just to hold on to their wealth. Is this not a moral issue?

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Papal infallibility, I was taught at the Prep and MC, was limited to “matters of faith and morals”.

Here we have the Vatican, as it often does, speak on economics.

Normally, I’d snooze thru these. But, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve seen HOW the manipulation of money screws the little people.

The problem of “poverty”, like we see in Africa, is the corrupt governments. And, the “system” of foreign aid turns the poor into chattel slaves.

And, it just keeps getting worse and worse.

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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=358597

WND RADIO COMMENTARY
Savage: Liberals now support death penalty?
Talk host asks why left, media celebrating execution of Gadhafi
Posted: October 21, 2011 1:40 pm Eastern
© 2011 WND

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Why are anti-death-penalty liberals, of all people, supporting the execution of a head of state?

That’s the question asked by Michael Savage at the opening of his top-rated talk-radio show yesterday following the killing of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

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“Why are, all of a sudden, war-mongers and death-penalty advocates so full of themselves?” he asked. “When Obama invades a country, it’s OK. When Obama executes someone, it’s OK; but when Bush did the same thing, it was a violation of human rights.”

It seems, Savage said, that “some dictators more equal than others.”

“Gadhafi is bad, but Assad in Syria is good? Ahmadinejad is good?” he asked.

“While the Hitler of Iran is invited to dinner at Columbia,” Savage observed, referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, “Gadhafi gets a bullet to the head. Why?”

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As a little L libertarian and fat old white guy injineer, it seems that abortion, the death penalty, and the “Just War” are all tied together.

While everyone celebrated OBL’s death, I wondered how this was Constitutional, moral, and effective.

Then “we” “nuked” that American citizen, AAA (i.e., Anwar Al-Awlaki), I wondered how this was Constitutional and moral.

Now, “we” “nuke” Muammar Gaddafi. Yeah maybe we did not directly pull the trigger. But we certainly put him in the cross hairs.

(One has to question BHO44′s foreign policy. Where is the balance against Iran? Israel is in the cross hairs. Radical Islam is empowered. Was BHO44 an Islamic “Manchurian Candidate” all along?)

We’re putting “droning” Yemen and putting troops into Uganda.

Sorry, but we are along way from the Constitution, the “Just War”, and — by the way — morality.

MYOB should be our “foreign policy”.

And, how about we bring our troops home from Korea, Germany, and the other hundred or so countries were in.

2012 should be an interesting election for “pro-life-ers”. How pro-life are they?

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http://biggovernment.com/waroot/2011/11/10/what-the-joe-paterno-scandal-and-the-penn-state-riots-say-about-america/

What the Joe Paterno Scandal and the Penn State Riots Say About America
by Wayne Allyn Root

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How could this happen in my America? Is everyone truly mad? Is winning football games more important than a 10-year old boy’s safety? How about dozens of innocent little boys? Is protecting a respected institution more important than stopping a child rapist? Why would educated responsible administrators with 6-figure and 7-figure salaries make the same decision to cover-up a heinous crime as priests and bishops and cardinals for the Catholic Church?

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I can’t imagine any of the thinking that allowed this to go on. “Papa Joe”? Mike McQueary? Any of the executives of Penn State? Anybody?

I can’t understand Penn State any more than I can understand the Catholic Church.

I can’t understand the Parents and Guardians of these abused children.

I can understand that “We, The Sheeple” are tolerant of celebrities, star athletes, and “winning” coaches.

I’m speechless, but I’d love to be on that jury.

I’m ashamed of Penn State and the Catholic Church.

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http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=12047

News
Pennsylvania bishops: school choice a ‘defining social justice issue’
October 13, 2011

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Following a statement in which the bishops of Pennsylvania called school choice “a defining social justice issue of our society,” the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference has lent its support to Governor Tom Corbett’s plan to introduce school vouchers and expand the state Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC).

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“Social Justice” equals “socialism”, if not worse.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), sounds like they are finally fighting for Catholic schools. Perhaps too late.

From Day One, the Gooferment’s role in “education” should have been vigorously opposed as First Amendment issue.

Gooferment should not be allowed to dumb down and propagandize future voters.

I just shake my head at how the battle was lost befor ethe first shots were fired.

Argh!

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http://www.experiencelifemag.com/issues/november-2011/life-wisdom/the-art-of-mindful-drinking.php

The Art of Mindful Drinking
What’s the right role for alcohol in your life? Experts offer suggestions for creating a healthier, more conscious relationship to drinking.
By Caren Osten Gerszberg / November 2011

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When I was growing up, my French-born mother sipped wine freely and daily. I can picture her in the kitchen, stirring a bubbly cassoulet in a dark blue enamel pot, preparing a plate of cheeses, churning the pepper mill — with a glass in hand or waiting close by. A habitual part of her cooking process, wine was also served at every evening meal. Long, narrow, green-tinted bottles with strangely spelled words were as much of a staple in our fridge as a container of milk.

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[JR: I’m not the poster boy for anything; let alone alcohol. In my magnus opus “CHURCH 10●19●62”, I wished for sobriety.]

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Third, she’d agonize on but demand a promise of future honesty. Second, was where she’d spend a lot of time? Drinking like her Uncle vin would be a sticking point. The decision would hinge there.

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“That being said, I will accept your apology and forgive. But there are three conditions. (1) Your Irish enough. I want the Pioneer Pledge. You can never take another drink.”

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Total_Abstinence_Association

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Pioneer Total Abstinence Association

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Pioneer Total Abstinence Association of the Sacred Heart (or PTAA) is an Irish organisation for Roman Catholic teetotallers. Its members are commonly called Pioneers. While the PTAA does not advocate prohibition, it does require complete abstinence from alcoholic drink from its members. It also encourages devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as an aid to resisting the temptation of alcohol. Pioneers wear a lapel pin called a Pioneer pin with an image of the Sacred Heart, both to advertise the organisation and to alert others not to offer them alcohol. The association publishes a monthly magazine, The Pioneer.

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http://www.pioneerassociation.ie/

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Our mission is to address the problems in society caused by excess alcohol consumption and drug usage. We do this through:
* Faith and prayer
* Self denial
* Example
* Activities based on presenting alternatives to individuals, particularly the young
* Advocacy

Our vision – based on the love in the Heart of Christ, as expressed in The Gospels – is to help to build a society where people live to their full potential and alcohol can be enjoyed in moderation avoiding the ills that arise in society from excess in its use.

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[JR: Probably wouldn’t have hurt to hear these ideas back in grammar school. Wonder if this is … … ]

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http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/vatican-daily-remembers-steve-jobs-as-visionary-of-technology-and-art

Vatican daily remembers Steve Jobs as ‘visionary’ of technology and art

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Rome, Italy, Oct 6, 2011 / 04:19 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican daily L’Osservatore Romano remembered Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, as a “visionary who united technology and art.”

The newspaper underscored that Jobs, who died at age 56 on Oct. 5 after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, “was one of the leaders and symbols of the Silicon Valley revolution.”

This revolution was also one of “habits, mentalities and culture. A revolution that was an offshoot, but not an heir, of the lax ‘70s”

Jobs “was a visionary who united technology and art. True, he wasn’t a technician or an entrepreneur. He was not a designer or a mathematician. Neither was he the typical nerd or showman. Was he a pirate or a pioneer? History will be the judge. In the meantime, his genius creations remain with us,” L’Osservatore Romano said.

From “unwanted pregnancy” to genius

Steve Jobs was born on Feb. 24, 1955. He was given up for adoption by his mother Joanne Simpson because of her father’s opposition to her relationship with Jobs’ Syrian father, Abdulfattah John Jandali.

Joanne and Abdulfattah eventually married after the death of her father. They had a daughter and tried to get their son back but it was legally impossible.

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And, the rest was history.

Now factor in the Culture of Death, where unwanted children are “prevented”, or even more horrific, murdered.

Where have all the other “Steve Jobs” gone?

What miracles have “we” deprived ourselves of by stupidity?

Think of every human, who was ever unwanted or “defective”, yet made their contribution.

I just shake my head and wonder what could have been?

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