An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Archive for Life
It’s About Liberty!
I came across a ‘letter to the editor” on the Detroit Free Press this morning that hits on some good point of the Tea Party folks, and naturally, some of the responses show the absolute ignorance of many on the left. Go, check it out, and let me know…..is this ignorance an epidemic, or is there some hope for the clueless?
On the same topic, there was this column, from Lee Harris, on Gov Monitor:
The phrase “Wal-Mart Hippies” is certainly attention-getting, as was no doubt intended. After all, who would suspect that there lurked a secret affinity between the carefree flower children of late ’60s and the hard-working folks who shop at Wal-Mart?
The two groups would seem a study in antithesis. The flower children of the ’60s put flowers in gun barrels and chanted sweet songs of peace. At Wal-Mart people buy guns to put bullets in and use them to shoot cute and cuddly animals. Hippies scorned work and lived in idleness.
The Wal-Mart shopper often works two jobs just to squeeze by. Flower children listened to acid rock. The folks at Wal-Mart adore Country and Western. Hippies celebrated free love. The people who fill the aisles of Wal-Mart marry, settle down, and raise families—often quite large ones. The hippies grooved on Zen or chanted Hare Krishna. The Wal-Mart crowd happily keeps Jesus at the wheel. Flower children opposed war. The Wal-Mart shopper sends off sons and daughters to fight them.
But Brooks is not really comparing the Tea Party movement to the hippie movement of the ’60s. Instead, he is comparing it to the New Left of the same decade. In one respect he appears to have made an honest mistake.
In his mind, the New Left and the hippie movement have strangely merged. Members of the New Left “went to Woodstock”—didn’t they? Actually, no, they didn’t. We should not confuse the carefree, frolicking hippie movement of that era with the mirthless and dour New Left of the same period. Hippies were whimsical spirits. The New Lefties were mirthless zealots. Hippies smoked pot and had fun. New Lefties read Lenin and plotted revolution. New Lefties regarded hippies as frivolous and fatuous. Hippies looked on New Lefties as the ultimate downers.
If read Brook’s column, you must ask yourself…..DOES THIS MORON EVER LEAVE NEW YORK?
Being of the dope-smoking, peace and love, generation, I can tell you, there are HUGE differences between those who actually shop at Wally World, and those who walked around barefoot, with flowers in their greasy hair, smelling like horse dung, hitch hiking all around the country, spreading the “word” of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll. Amazing….some of us actually GREW UP! Reality will do that to ya!
This “new left”, in my personal opinion, are the red headed step children of those who came before. While my generation talked about changing the world, for the better in some ways, with all kinds of flowery bs, this bunch wants to actually change the world by destroying anything that is good and positive within the human experience. And that will just NOT do!
Words
This morning I was awoken by words in my head. Needless to say, I wasn’t ready to rise and ….well, not shine, but be up and functioning. Let’s face it, I am NOT a morning person. But the words were persistent, so I really didn’t have a choice. And what were those words that were prying my eyes open? “Prove the womb is the tomb.”
What on earth is that suppose to mean? Now, I don’t know about you, but I’m not one of those people who wakes up all bright eyed and bushy tailed. It takes the brain a while to catch up, and don’t even get me started on both eyes. My day starts with a sliver, and with appropriate amounts of coffee, USUALLY things will catch up with the desire, or need, to be awake. It does happen occasionally. 
I had to give this some serious thought. Prove the womb is the tomb. Ok, the womb. Life comes from the womb. The tomb gives you the mental image of death, the end. Adios. Sayonara. Worm food.
The Color Of Babies
CNN Blog Attacks Black Pro-Lifers, Continues Liberal Trend
While anti-choice activists may condemn the location of family planning clinics, such as Planned Parenthood, in these communities, this condemnation is itself further evidence of their cynicism – and of their indifference to the actual health care needs of low-income women (a disproportionate number of whom are African-American). The majority of health care services provided by Planned Parenthood, for instance, are non-abortion related and include cancer screening, STD testing, and other preventive health services. We may agree to disagree about the morality of abortion but I do hope there is no legitimate disagreement about the need for low-income women to have access to these health resources.
There is yet another element of this campaign that I find particularly unsettling. Implicit in this strategy is the assumption that the womb of an African-American woman is somehow “community property” – and that our family planning and reproductive decisions cannot properly be based upon individual choices and circumstances but must instead take into account the need to “propagate the race.” It seems as if anti-choice strategists are suggesting that African-American women need to be saved from themselves and their own freely made choices – or worse yet, that the African-American community needs to be saved from its women. Forgive me, but the time for that sort of racial paternalism is long since past.
There are real issues of concern affecting African-Americans today – inadequate access to health care, disproportionate incarceration rates, a substandard public education system (which is the only option for many of its children), and numerous others. Cynical attempts to exploit those problems so as to gain advantage in a contentious debate are no substitute for the real attention our community deserves.
You can go read the entire thing, but I wanted to point out the absurdity, that hits me. This isn’t about the color of a baby’s skin. This is about the BABY! Does this woman really believe that Planned Parenthood is such a noble organization? Seriously? When you put such abortion mills in a community, that should speak volumes. But I guess the left, no matter the color, doesn’t seem to understand this.
No one is suggesting that “African-American women need to be saved from themselves”. (There’s that hyphen again.) I, personally, would suggest that ALL American women ‘need to saved’ from the evil that has permeated our society. Convincing a woman that her child is nothing more than an inconvenience, or a mass of tissue, or a tumor, isn’t evil? If this woman wants to do something for her community, then perhaps she should take a step back, and look at the REAL problems facing it, and every other community. This is beyond a color issue. This is a society issue. The “Great Society” gimme mind set. The “I don’t have to work hard to achieve success, cuz YOU OWE ME!” attitude. The “It’s ok if I act like a slut, and get pregnant every other month cuz someone will “fix it”!” mentality.
To quote The Socialist Appeal: We also stand for the right of a woman to dispose of her body as she sees fit. Well, if SHE wants to abort herself, that’s her prerogative I suppose. But this isn’t just about HER, this is about someone else’s life. The life of a child. A separate entity. It’s not her’s to destroy, but to nurture.
Perhaps this is the lefist/progressive/socialist/communist agenda, to ‘kill God”? God CREATED life. Destroy life, destroy God. Not acceptable!
Potential
Do you ever wonder what that murdered baby could have done with his/her life, if only he/she had been allowed to be born. I do, think about it often. No, I’ve never had an abortion, but when I was pregnant, the thought crossed my mind. I was in a real tough spot, and I didn’t know how I’d ever be able to raise a child on my own. Shoot, I was pretty much a child myself, at 20. I even went so far as to make the phone call, asking questions. I’m really glad God grabbed my heart, and stopped me from making the biggest mistake of my life! My daughter is now 35, mother of two beautiful (pain in the hinder) girls. She isn’t famous. She doesn’t make loads of money. But she makes a difference in other people’s lives, including mine. I may give the kid a hard time, tease her unmercifully, but there has never been a doubt in my mind that I made the RIGHT ‘choice’. I AM proud of my daughter!
I wonder which one of those nearly 50,000,000 babies would have grown up, maybe to go into research, find a cure for childhood diabetes. Cancer maybe? Won a Peace Prize for actually promoting peace? Written a book that could change people’s lives? Become a father, who would teach his children right from wrong? Be a pastor, a mentor, a friend to hundreds, or maybe just a few. Touching people’s lives in ways we can’t even begin to understand? Even a mother who bakes her children cookies?
I’m also grateful that my biological mother didn’t consider a ‘back alley’ abortion too. If she had, I would never have given birth to my wonderful daughter, never had the joy of holding my grandchildren, never learned the beauty of the world, amidst the ugly, met my wonderful husband, or be here to irritate liberals.
So. What is the ‘potential‘ of an unborn baby? We won’t know, because someone decided, 2 years before my daughter was born, infanticide was ok.
H/T: to, and video swiped from BizzyBlog, with another H/T to Blue Collar Muse via Twitter.
What a Difference A Week Makes
One week ago, we had snow on the ground. it didn’t completely go away until Thursday. Early this afternoon, the Mr was heading out to his man cave, when he mentioned something green outside. So, I toddled myself over to the door to take a peek. I’ll be darned! Day lily sprouting!
Unfortunately, I also noticed that the weeds were making a major comeback as well. 
Does this mean things are going to get back to normal now? As in semi-normal temperatures? 
R.I.P.
Former Presidential Adviser Haig Dies
Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, who served Republican presidents and ran for the office himself, has died.
The Haig family says he died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from complications associated with an infection. He was 85.
The four-star general served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own. President Richard Nixon appointed him White House chief of staff in 1973. In that role, Haig helped the president prepare his impeachment defense and handled many of the day-to-day decisions normally made by the chief executive.
Haig later served as secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan.
In the chaotic hours following the attempted assassination of Reagan in March 1981, Haig uttered what became his most famous statement.
“As of now, I am in control here, in the White House,” Haig said.
The remark misrepresented the line of presidential succession and it made it easier for critics to portray Haig as a usurper of power.
In 2001, Haig defended his remark.
“Everybody in that room was very familiar with the fact that this was not a discussion about transition, but rather authority within the executive branch,” he said.
Haig quit the Reagan Cabinet after a year-and-a-half — disgusted, he said, with bureaucratic infighting.
“You can’t have the State Department putting out one line and the Defense Department another line and the White House yet another line,” he told Fox News in 2002.
Nothing has changed! Rest in peace, sir. Thank you for serving our country. Prayers with the family
Explosion
Fatalities Reported After Massive Explosion at Connecticut Power Plant
Mass casualties and multiple injuries were reported Sunday after a massive explosion at a Connecticut power plant, police confirmed to Fox News.
The explosion occurred just before 11:30 a.m. local time at the Kleen Energy plany on River Road in Middletown, Conn., according to authorities.
About 100 people were working at the plant during the time of the explosion.
Dozens of ambulances and fire trucks were on the scene and witnesses said black smoke could be seen for miles.
Many prayers for the folks up there in Middleton, those who lost their lives, the injured, and all families and friends.
GRANNY!
Well Chris…..how does it feel to be a grandmother? LMAO Gotta admit, he’s a cutie. I’m just having problems with the mental image of YOU as a granny. Heh.
Meet Noah Ryan….popping into the world yesterday at a whopping 8 and a half pounds. OUCH.
Major congrats to the proud parents! Your lives are forever changed.
The Power of God…
….or nature, if you prefer.
From The Haitian Blogger:
The Haiti National Presidential Palace, 11 January 2010
The Haiti National Presidential Palace, 12 January 2010
The Party of Death is “Moral”?
Feinstein Says It’s ‘Morally Correct’ to Force Taxpayers to Fund Abortion
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) told CNSNews.com that using tax dollars from pro-life Americans to pay for insurance plans that cover abortion is morally correct.
Quick! Someone take this…..person….a dictionary!
moral - 1 a : of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior : ethical b : expressing or teaching a conception of right behavior c : conforming to a standard of right behavior d : sanctioned by or operative on one’s conscience or ethical judgment e : capable of right and wrong action 2 : probable though not proved : virtual 3 : perceptual or psychological rather than tangible or practical in nature or effect — mor·al·ly \-?-l?\ adverb
A few synonyms for her perusal: ethical, virtuous, righteous, noble.
Oh, wait a minute. She’s a Democrat. Ethical isn’t really in her vocabulary, is it. Hmmm… Virtuous? Well, perhaps she thinks slaughtering innocent babies is virtuous? Righteous? Self-righteous maybe, but righteous? I don’t think so. And noble doesn’t even come into the scenario.
You can read the whole thing here, and listen to the audio, if you have the stomach. Anger is overcoming at the moment.
Screw Ups
Iraq Soldier’s Mom Sues Over Letter Stamped ‘Deceased’
A Minnesota woman is suing the federal government after a letter she mailed to her son in Iraq was returned with the word “deceased” stamped on the envelope, even though the soldier is alive.
Joan Najbar of Duluth filed the lawsuit last month in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, claiming emotional distress and negligence.
Najbar sent the letter to her son in September 2006. Several weeks later the letter was returned to her by the Postal Service with a red “deceased” stamp. Najbar contacted the Red Cross and learned her son had not been killed.
She filed a claim for injuries against the Postal Service in July 2008. That claim was denied. A letter from the Postal Service says its investigation found no negligence.
A call to Najbar’s attorney was not immediately returned. The government’s answer to her suit has not yet been filed.
Say whut? No negligence? I dunno….sure sounds like someone screwed up somewhere along the line.
I remember my dad’s family talking about the day my grandmother got a telegram during WWII, “We regret to inform you….”. News that the youngest boy had been shot down, and killed, over Germany, was devastating for the entire family. A few weeks later, my uncle walked through the front door, completely unharmed. Now, granted, people didn’t consider suing anyone at the drop of a hat, but you can see where such news could seriously damage a person’s mental health for a while.
The U.S. Military doesn’t notify families that their loved one has been killed with a stamp on letter. This pretty much points to some low level moron, either at the U.S.P.S, or in the military’s mail room. Either way, someone should step forward, and take responsibility. Should there be financial gain in a lawsuit? Oh, hell no. But a personal apology is not out of the question.
Help Needed
If you are a reader of really GOOD conservative blogs, you’ll be aware of the loss of one of the good guys, David Hinz of The Minority Report, last Friday morning in a car accident. Arraignments have been made for services in Michigan. The family is asking, in lieu of flowers, that a donation be made to help with the financial end of things. We all know that funerals, etc., have become so expensive, sometimes it’s difficult to provide for loved ones. I pray, if at all possible, that my readers will help out with a donation, large or small, at this difficult time for the Hinz family. If you are so inclined, you can also leave a message of condolence here.
From The Minority Report
Rest In Peace David Hinz
By Steve Foley
It’s with the heaviest of hearts that I inform you that my friend and online partner David Hinz was killed this morning in a auto accident. I don’t have all the details right now but the weather was bad and black ice was most likely what caused the accident.
Dave was on his way to work, at Fed Ex, when it happened.
A consummate warrior for freedom and liberty Dave was not only a brilliant writer and seeker of truth… he was someone I was proud to call my friend.
I’m obviously devastated by this news today… so I promise to give you more details and properly eulogize my friend in the coming days.
Please keep his family in your prayers!
The conservative blogosphere has lost a true gem today. One of the REAL good guys. My most sincere prayers with his family!
R.I.P. Rep. Turner
Democratic Representative Larry Turner of Memphis Dead
The Tennessee House Speaker Pro Tempore has announced that Representative Larry Turner of Memphis has died.
The announcement was made Friday, November 27, 2009. House Speaker Pro Tempore Louis DeBerry told the Associated Press that Rep. Turner died Friday morning after a long illness.
Rep. Turner missed most of the last session of the Tennessee General Assembly because of the illness. He’d spent twenty-four years in the legislature with hardly any absences before the last term.
Rep. DeBerry describes Rep. Turner as a quiet, yet effective lawmaker. Rep. DeBerry told the Associated Press, “I never heard anybody say anything bad about (him), and I never heard him say anything bad about anybody.”
It’s really hard to come across a politician these days that is so highly thought of by both sides. Many pay lip service, but few are truly sincere. It appears this gentleman was honestly though well of.
Rest in peace sir. Prayers with the family.
