Montana district court Judge, Dorothy McCarter, has apparently legislated from the bench to make assisted suicide legal in her state.

The judge’s new law allows prescribing and obtaining medication for the purpose of suicide to be without legal penalty for those who are mentally competent and terminally ill.

This makes Montana the third state after Oregon and Washington to permit assisted suicide.

The Smoking Gun brings us a story of young caregivers at a Minnesota Nursing home mistreating the residents. Criminal charges have been brought against the two who are over age 18 for abuse including physical torment and sexual contact. I had seen but passed over this story as too disgusting to present on the blog. The thought of the elderly being unsafe in a place which is designed to protect them is disturbing. But another story brought it back to my mind.

It seems that 27 year old Jon Favreau had some pictures taken of himself and an associate playing with a cutout of sixty-something Hillary Clinton. The friend is offering the Hillary cutout a beer, and Favreau is striking a pose of groping her breast. This and other pics were placed on Favreau’s facebook site, but were removed after about two hours.

One wonders why a guy, in a position as Obama’s chief speechwriter would post such pics of himself. It could be that he completely lacks a sense that some people could find the behavior a bit odd or disgusting. There are certain types of people from whom I would expect all sorts of unusual behavior, but it’s rare for even those people to “do it in the road” displaying it for all to see.

Yep…. this is Obama’s chief speechwriter, … the guy who conveys in words, the lofty ideals and virtue of the next president….. as he would have others see him.

I hope the remaining Republicans are willing to sacrifice their voices for America. Saxby Chambliss (R- GA)won his bid for Senatorial office, and so the Dems don’t have their magic 60 percent required to completely ruin our lives.

This is a good thing. I might need to move to Georgia now, since 60 percent of those people are normal enough to realize that letting the Democrats totally run the U.S. would not be healthy.

Big smile.

Pharmer is watching the fun of these 17 lawsuits, filed mostly by democrats, concerning the citizenship of Obama. There’s a collection of evidence that the Obamanator is not a natural born citizen of the U.S., and is therefore unqualified to be President. Two lawsuits are pending consideration by the U.S. Supreme court. Look up docket’s here if that floats your boat.
In addition, Obama appears to be a bit outside the constitution with respect to nominating Hillary as Secretary of State. There’s a rule against nominating an elected official, during the term which they are elected to serve, to fill an appointment to office such as the Cabinet. This has been done by two prior Democrat presidents, I understand, but who’s watching?
HA.
and here’s a cool link to an analysis of Obama’s selective service registration. Seems that the form is waaaaay newer than his signature is supposed to be. Check it out! Way to go, Debbie Schlussel.

How about that? A nice short one packed with fun links to read. I must be getting lazy.

The media was all worked up for this interview, showing turkeys being slaughtered behind Sarah Palin, (who is in charge of the bird for Thanksgiving with her family).

By contrast, they don’t show such concern about the similar slaughter and dismemberment of humans in the abortion process.

NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies stepped in it again, by reporting this past October as the hottest on record. After people sorta noticed that October really was rather cold over much of the world, with unseasonable snowfall, including the worst ever in Tibet, there was a recheck of the figures. It was found that September data from Russia and other locations had been repeated in October, making the overall temp seem warmer than usual. WHUPS! It’s that same James Hansen, who had to retract the claim that the 90’s had been the hottest decade of the last century, and instead report that the real heat was back in the 30’s.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is rating this October as the 70th warmest in the last 114 years… in other words, a little colder than average.

Jeffery P. Rosato, a senior advisor to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and aide to Barbara Boxer has been dismissed due to an apparent penchant for kiddie porn.

It seems that an unnamed third party was chatting up an FBI undercover agent who was posing as a 13 year old boy, and exchanging porn files. On the computer of this person was indication that he was also exchanging files with Rosato. Kiddie porn was subsequently found on Rosato’s computer.

Boxer’s spokesperson, citing a zero tolerance for crimes against children (with the exception of Boxer’s support of abortion), has said that Rosato was immediately terminated.

Last month, an aide of Democrat Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington also lost his job for similar reasons.

Chris Matthews, the guy who gets tingly feelings running up and down his legs listening to liberal speeches, (and pretends to be a journalist hosting “Hardball”) has told Joe Scarborough that his job is to make this presidency a success. He “wants to do anything to make this thing work, this new presidency work..”.

Yep. Chris Matthews has a different idea of the job of a journalist than the rest of us.

In Indianapolis, Obama’s campaign workers lined up by 10 am at a Meridian street office to get paid for their work. After an extensive wait, (no one was home at the office until after 1 pm) they finally were issued either a form of payment (Prepaid visa cards) or a paper promise of payment to come. Many were dissatisfied, stating that they were payed less than what they had earned.

Frankly, I’m not surprised. Read here.

The Campaign for Human Development has been giving grants to ACORN. Juliea Duin of Washington Times announced in a Nov 4 article that the U.S. Catholic Bishops have hired forensic accountants to track funds given to Acorn due to reports of partisan (Obama leaning) and fraudulent spending which could jeopardize the tax-exempt status of the Catholic Church.

Earlier this year, the Bishops suspended funding to ACORN. Catholic News Service was informed in October that the Campaign for Human Development was no longer funding ACORN at any level, due to suspicion of embezzling occurring way back in 1999 and 2000.

In the last 10 years, the Campaign for Human Development gave over 300 grants to ACORN totalling more than 7.3 million dollars.

While it is nice that a self investigation has been proceeding (before attention was given by the mainstream media) and funding to ACORN has been frozen, I recommend for the time being that in November, people allocate their funding to another worthy charity. Perhaps next year, a truly ACORN – free Campaign for Human Development might merit your charitable contributions. My idea is that pinching this fund off in November might influence the U.S. Catholic Bishops to be more careful with their spending in the future.