Know Thy Liberal Sources I

Let’s face it: Anyone with a computer can get “published” today, even the present writer. That reality of internet life makes it critical to establish the credentials of the person or persons who author articles read on the web before buying into his or her philosophies and theses.

With that in mind, I felt it judicious to delve into the world of Bonnie Erbe’ after reading her provocatively-titled piece, “Abortion Is Not a Tragedy,” http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/42197. One thing I discovered was that Ms. Bonnie is anything but “bonnie.”

For those such as I who must live sheltered existences and who are ignorant of who Ms. Erbe’ is, here’s the straight poop on her curriculum vitae: Aged 56, though her available photos such as this lop off at least 10 of her years, Erbe’ is a NYC-born graduate of Barnard College, (1974), Columbia (M.S. in journalism, 1975), and Georgetown Law (1987).

She is described by Wikipedia as “an American journalist and television host based in the Washington, D.C. area who has covered national politics since 1975,” which means, pretty impressively, that she has been so covering since she was 22.

Wikipedia goes on to say that Erbe’ is host and Chief Exec of the PBS program, “To the Contrary,” is a contributing (blog) editor at US News and World Report, and, oddly, serves as advisor to an immigration reduction organization, The Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Again, pretty impressive even if that’s the extent of Erbe’s Wikipedia entry. Further research turns up other interesting details about Erbe’, including the factoid that her PBS show is the first in the nation to exclusively feature women discussing the news: http://www.pbs.org/ttc/about_host.html.

As they say, the plot, Erbe’s pro-abortion plot, thickens. . .
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Various Perversions

Various Perversions (PG Rated)

The poor will always be with us, spoke Jesus Christ. Literally, He said, “You always have the poor with you,” (Matthew 26:11), though the meaning is the same. If Christ lived in 2009 A.D., He might add, “And perverts will always be with you, too!” The meaning and truth of that pronouncement would be evident to anyone who reads newspapers.

Perversion is defined as any sexual act considered abnormal but nowadays precisely what constitutes “abnormal” is sometimes disputed. Likewise, that definition could be stretched to incorporate any forms of depravity. Four examples of perversions follow:

Procreative Perversion: A guy who perhaps does not technically-qualify for the appellation of pervert but who has to be damned close is Desmond Hatchett. Mr. Hatchett is not shy about admitting that he has fathered some 20 or 21 kids which in itself may not be that exceptional, even if he is a gross exemplar of population pollution and more representative of Arab sheiks than his fellow lotharios in Knoxville, TN.

What distinguishes him more is his relatively brief lifespan of 29 years and the fact he boasts of impregnating at least 11 different females and of begetting 4 kids within the same year–twice: http://www.volunteertv.com/home/headlines/45871127.html.

Hatchett brings to mind the admonition of either Groucho Marx or W.C. Fields, (the ascription is debated), that, “I love my cigar too but I take it out once in a while.” It also brings to mind the thought that since Mr. Hatchett works a minimum-wage job and currently resides in jail for failure to pay child support the state of Tennessee should consider a hatchet to deal with Hatchett’s insatiable proclivities. The Volunteer State will be paying to raise his brood.

It should also be noted that none of the mothers objected to his multiple feats of propagation but some did object that they will be receiving $1.98 a month from Mr. Hatchett’s largesse.

Parading Perversion: Less ambiguously perverted is state-sponsored corruption of children. Desmond Hatchett apparently indulged his appetites with willing accomplices. The State of Massachusetts was accomplice to the corruption of kids during its annual May “Youth Pride Parade,” a euphemism for “Encouraging Children to Become Queers Parade.”

Anyone who knows teenagers and, especially those who have reared them, knows that teens are by nature a confused group. Confusion and indecision come with the teen territory. So where else can homosexuals, the GLBT bunch, find greener pastures and green recruits than among . . .

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Black Racism Vs Honest Critiques

Black Racism vs Honest Critiques: Canadians vs Rush Limbaugh

There are fair and honest opinions and then there are sick, vicious diatribes.

One that falls into the latter category was posted by AOL’s “Black Voices,” with which I rarely agree but in this instance I have to gingerly climb on board their Black racist bandwagon: http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2009/05/29/radio-canada-easier-to-shoot-a-black-president-in-the-white-hou/?icid=main|htmlws-main|dl6|link4|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.blackvoices.com%2Fblogs%2F2009%2F05%2F29%2Fradio-canada-easier-to-shoot-a-black-president-in-the-white-hou%2F.

The essence of that story relates to a French-Canadian who cracked a joke which so exceeded the boundaries of good taste that to call it merely incendiary is understatement.

The Radio-Canada network host said, almost six months ago: ”It will be good to have a Negro in the White House. It will be practical. Black on white, it will be easier to shoot him.” Said host, whose name does not deserve mention, no doubt considered his remark amusing which clearly demonstrates he is a nitwit and an historically-challenged twit as well.

Even allowing that the witless witticism was spoken by a French-Canadian, it was beyond tasteless and reflected a gross ignorance and insensitivity not only to Obama and his family but to the vast majority of Americans, even to those of us who didn’t vote for the man, and never would.

Fortunately and unfortunately, I lived through those November days of 1963 after Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated America’s president, after Jack Ruby in turn murdered Oswald, and as the nation sat stupefied by it all, that stupefication reaching its zenith and its nadir with the funeral and burial of John F. Kennedy, our 35th president.

I say fortunately because with that perspective I am able to understand perhaps a little better the gravity of Oswald’s cowardly, overtly seditious act and its effect on Americans. Conversely and unfortunately perhaps, I am more sensitive to any suggestion that it be repeated or that even an attempt be made at repetition.

I should add that at the tender age of 18 I did not support the candidacy of Jack Kennedy, despite his Irish heritage. But at the still-tender age of 21, I abhorred his murder.

I also strongly opposed the insanity of nominating and electing Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency. I much more strongly abhor ”assassination jokes” by foreign and domestic sickos which minimize the murder of any American president.

Then there is the other hand, not regarding presidential assassinations but regarding objective criticism and parody of our current, sitting chief executive.

George W. Bush was vilified, castigated, ridiculed, and parodied from the day he announced his candidacy, to his two elections, and throughout his 8 years as president. (For the record, I voted twice for Bush, by default.)

The demeaning of Bush began . . .

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Happy Fourth of July!

(The following was received as an email, with photos added. Please feel free to forward this to as many patriotic Americans as would appreciate it.

Yes, parts of it may be considered hokey in our super-sophisticated, blase’, modern society but all of it is true, sincere, and thoughtful.

We are living through very trying times, times that literally “try men’s souls,” times that once again threaten our liberties and endanger our hard-fought freedoms, times that many are predicting will mark the end of the American Era on the world stage.

I contend that, despite the seriousness of both ominous domestic and foreign threats and dangers, we will ultimately prevail, not succumb, and not be defeated–as long as we retain our God-given, indomitable American spirit and sense of destiny and confidence in this nation’s future.

And what better way to re-assert that confidence than by joyously celebrating our nation’s birth date? We may have a month to go before the anniversary of July 4th,1776 but it’s never too early to celebrate our freedoms and to thank those responsible for preserving those freedoms and our still-intact American independence.)



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Happy 4th of July!

Let’ s get this started now so it will be out there on the fourth!

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL!

Wherever they may be, please support all of the troops defending our Country. And may God bless our Military who are protecting our country for our freedom. Thanks to them, and their sacrifices, we can celebrate the 4th of July.

A Poem

I watched the flag
Pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine
Saluted it,
And then he stood at ease....

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Postscript for Dr. George Tiller

Those, like me, who wanted to get a look at the website of Dr. George Tiller after his murder Sunday morning in Wichita discovered that the website had been taken down, within 24 hours of his death. Thanks to the efforts of pro-life activist Randall Terry and others, that website was somehow “recovered:” http://web.archive.org/web/20080118044720/www.drtiller.com/mainpg.html.
Since then, the site, www.drtiller.com/ , has become accessible on the web although with inactive links.
Below is a portion of the home page which includes active links to his “Women’s Health Care Services, P.A.”


“Women’s Health Care Services is a professional organization dedicated to providing expert, confidential, and respectful abortion care. We have a national and international reputation for providing the highest quality abortion services in a safe and caring environment. Kindness, courtesy, justice, love and respect are the cornerstones of our patient-provider relationships. “We have an unparalleled record of safey in late abortion services and we have more experience in late abortion services over 24 weeks than anyone else currently practicing in the Western Hemisphere, Europe and Australia.”
Why the site was initially unavailable is a matter of some conjecture; Terry suggests the reason was to conceal the details of what actually went on at Tiller’s “clinic:” http://overturnroe.com/.

However, the various links are as misleading as the facility’s name, “Women’s Health Care Services.” It’s difficult to understand how Tiller’s abortion mill, primarily dedicated to extinguishing the lives of very viable babies, i.e., infants fully capable of living outside the mother’s womb, could have been construed as providing any measure of “health care” to the mothers-to-be. It was also demonstrably unconcerned with the health of the babies killed on the premises.

Similarly, the links on Tiller’s website were clearly intended to cloak the gory specifics of his facility. The words of a Tiller victim,”Kelly,” put the lie to his website subterfuges:. . .
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May Dr. George Tiller NOT Rest in Peace

By now, most conscious people are aware of the mindless execution of Dr. George Tiller, allegedly by Scott Philip Roeder. Tiller was shot to death while serving as an usher inside Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas on Sunday, May 31st.

The proper reactions at this point after this reprehensible act of ultimate violence would be to extend one’s deepest sympathies to his family and friends, which I do, and to say the usual, may Tiller rest in peace, which I cannot bring myself to do.

That sentiment or, more precisely lack of sentiment, in itself would appear to be reprehensible but it is defensible.

Senseless murder can never be condoned and before anyone alleges that capital punishment is murder let’s make it clear that such executions are both legal and anything but senseless. The escape two days earlier by two convicted murderers from an Arkansas prison represents further testimony for the necessity of capital punishment. By now, they could be replicating more capital murders.

The murder of Tiller in his church by a crazed fool can never be condoned under any circumstances. If his killer felt he was following God’s will, he is an even greater fool since the murder will undoubtedly redound against the pro-life, right to life movement and provide fodder for abortionists to claim we who are pro-life are no better than they.

Equally idiotic are those who would suggest Tiller’s murder was an act of justifiable homicide because of the doctor’s practice of terminating innocent lives in late-term abortions.

As sick as those actions are, to kill such practitioners–and he was only one of two doctors in the country who performed such abortions–is never justifiable in a nation committed to the rule of law. To defend Tiller’s death as justifiable is to invite vigilantism and chaos.

Roeder’s motives are still unclear but whatever they are, and if he is duly tried and convicted, he should be put to death for his actions. Twenty-four hours later, police have not connected him with any anti-abortion groups, most of which have expressed their shock and regret over the heinous crime.

That said, in defense of my personal inability to hope Tiller rests in peace, I could no more extend that wish than a Jewish individual could hope that the Nazi “Angel of Death,” Dr. Josef Mengele, rests peacefully in the hereafter. If any Jews are capable of that, I can only say they are exceedingly magnanimous and forgiving, much moreso than I.

Mengele may have been responsible for the torture and death of thousands at Auschwitz. Tiller bragged of having performed over 60,000 abortions at his “clinic,” mostly late term abortions killing viable, near-birth, fully-formed victims, some performed on girls who were minors.

For doubters as to the extent of Tiller’s “terminations,” a recording in which he proudly admits to that 60,000 number can be found here, among other abortion facts relating to his death clinic’s activities: http://www.dr-tiller.com/biography.htm.

Sotomayor and La Raza

Excellent cases can be made both for confirmation of Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the United States Supreme Court and for filibustering her into submission and ultimate withdrawal such as the Democrat minority did to George W. Bush’s pick for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Miguel Estrada.

It may be recalled that the eminently-qualified Estrada was eventually beaten down because of one serious flaw in his resume’. He was so abused that Estrada’s wife may have died shortly after as a consequence.

As with Sotomayor, he too had a compelling history and was a Hispanic nominee but unlike Sotomayor, he suffered from the terminal malady of unreconstructed conservativism and thus was totally unacceptable to fair-minded Senate liberals.

If they didn’t exactly “Bork” him, they trashed and distorted his record sufficiently to make the guy surrender in frustration. Estrada subsequently entered private practice.

Unlike Sotomayor, Estrada had no unseemly affiliations in his background, although some would allege that Sotomayor’s associations are quite seemly, especially that with La Raza.

This is all but moot anyway since Barack Obama’s choice to fill the shoes of David Souter is a shoo-in and, as I previously argued, it would be counterproductive and a waste of effort and ammunition to go after Sotomayor. See “Save the Ammo and Confirm Sonia,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1034. Hence, any discussion of Sonia Sotomayor at this point is irrelevant.

What is worth further investigation, however, is La Raza, a group of which Sotomayor is a member and which proudly published her 2001 speech. In that lecture/speech she said in her infamously racist and stupid fashion, “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life:” http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=99420.

The National Council of la Raza, the Race, en Ingles, the NCLR, lapped it up....
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