logos redux

Personally, I find it irresponsible that institutions everywhere (including my school) are not only offering, but encouraging everyone to get the vaccine. And if you work in the medical field in NYC you don’t have a choice. This whole thing smacks of a very good way to ingratiate yourself to a field that you’d really like to have behind you on a huge piece of policy that’s coming down the pike. Hmm, I wonder what that could be?

In the spirit of the Life Chain protest, and in the spirit of the Church’s witness against evil, both of which you can read about here, here are ten woes against the nation that harbors and protects abortionists and their clients…

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My wife posted this before but it needs to be posted again. Particularly pay attention to the last two minutes of Part 1.

Here and here you can see Barak Obama’s view on these issues. And here you can here him refer to having a baby as a punishment.

Nobody should be reassured by politicians’ declarations that the legislation under consideration “will not” do thus-and-such, or “does not include provisions for” such-and-such.  The mantra, “There’s nothing in this bill that does x,” ought to do little to assuage us. Just because something is not explicit in the legislation does not mean that it cannot or will not happen. 

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“People are independent individuals who should be expected—and have the right—to pay their own way…He who pays the piper calls the tune, and when it comes to health care, our lives depend on being able to call the tune…Don’t be fooled by labels. The ‘public option’ is not a form of insurance, because it is deliberately designed not to balance premiums against risk. Instead of choosing how much much coverage you are willing to pay for, everyone is forced into a plan designed by an Orwellian ‘Health Choices Commissioner.’ And when you get sick, you don’t have a contract with a private company that you can enforce. You are dependent on benefits that are doled out uniformly to everyone by the government—no matter what your personal judgment about your health-care needs, and no matter how much you have paid into the system.”

Robert Tracinski, “Dems’ Plan will Eliminate Health Insurance“

“Section 1233 authorizes advanced care planning consultations for senior citizens on Medicare every five years, and more often ‘if there is a significant change in the health condition of the individual … or upon admission to a skilled nursing facility, a long-term care facility… or a hospice program.’ During those consultations, practitioners must explain ‘the continuum of end-of-life services and supports available, including palliative care and hospice,’ and the government benefits available to pay for such services.

Now put this in context. These consultations are authorized whenever a Medicare recipient’s health changes significantly or when they enter a nursing home, and they are part of a bill whose stated purpose is ‘to reduce the growth in health care spending.’ Is it any wonder that senior citizens might view such consultations as attempts to convince them to help reduce health care costs by accepting minimal end-of-life care? As Charles Lane notes in the Washington Post, Section 1233 ‘addresses compassionate goals in disconcerting proximity to fiscal ones…. If it’s all about obviating suffering, emotional or physical, what’s it doing in a measure to “bend the curve” on health-care costs?’…

Even columnist Eugene Robinson, a self-described ‘true believer’ who ‘will almost certainly support’ ‘whatever reform package finally emerges’, agrees that ‘If the government says it has to control health-care costs and then offers to pay doctors to give advice about hospice care, citizens are not delusional to conclude that the goal is to reduce end-of-life spending.’”

Sarah Palin, “Concerning the ‘Death Panels’“

Watch carefully, class:

Are you taking notes? When faced with an uncomfortable challenge, 1) pretend you couldn’t hear what was said (that way you don’t have to respond to it), 2) mumble something about “out of context” (no matter what the original context actually was), and 3) silence your opponent with condescending looks and authoritative hand gestures. Robert Gibbs gets an A+.

It turns out our little Rice Krispy is actually a baby girl!!! We just had our second ultrasound at 20.4 weeks and found out that we are going to have a daughter. I saw the heart beating (including all four valves clearly visible), arms and legs, fingers, feet, a tiny little stomach, a bottom and even a little nose. It was pretty amazing. I have to say that finding out that it was a girl was a little surprising. Alicia and I no longer trust our “intuition.”

This one shows her profile and her little nose. Amazing.

This one shows her spinal column clearly and I think that may be an arm coming up over from the left.

Another profile with her abdomen and chest clear.

And here the baby is turned over and she’s got her hands up in front of her face like a boxer- she kept doing this all through the ultrasound.

“Medical miracles do not happen simply by accident. They result from painstaking and costly research – from years of lonely trial and error, much of which never bears fruit – and from a government willing to support that work.”

Barack Obama, 3.9.2009 Press release on embryonic stem cell research funding

Wow. Did you hear that? “Medical miracles” happen when the government intervenes. Amazing. And did you catch the opposing implication? When government fails to extend its great benevolent arm (with a fist of your tax dollars, whether you like it or not!), medical miracles don’t happen. Take that, you embryonic stem-cell naysayers.