MMM MMM MMM, Michelle’s Munchy Vacation!

WOW!!!

Coffee-braised Short Ribs With Ancho Chile Recipe – Food.com – 102536.

You could gain a half pound with each entree, unless you can ski it off!

1575.8 calories per SERVING.   Looks great, but not on the middle aged body.     Pharmer wants some, but can’t afford it for two reasons, price and …….

This vid shows a much younger person.  Gotta go do my version of this thing at class  tonight.  OUCH… hahahaha….. cannot afford more junk in the trunk.


Eimi Kurita is killer 😀

Dr. Bernard Nathanson R.I.P.

Dr Bernard Nathanson, the last surviving founder of NARAL, who later renounced abortion practice, has passed on at age 84.   The irrefutable evidence of ultrasonography, made available in the 1970s,   helped Dr. Nathanson to find his right mind,  causing him to spend the last half of his life as a pro-lifer.  He produced the Silent Scream, and Eclipse of Reason videos to convince  others of what he had come to understand from a  physical and medical standpoint. Among his writings on the topic are the books, ” Aborting America” and “The Abortion Papers”.

During this pro-life  portion of his life,  Nathanson, once an atheist, began to address the spiritual matters as well.   After a good bit of searching, he  was assimilated into Catholicism in 1996. (…. resistance is Futile.)

‘WRTolkas’, over at CNS news, connected John Newton and Bernard Nathanson, and that makes really good sense.  Listen up.

Prayers for Dr. Nathanson and his loved ones.

Weekend Business: Repeal of Bush’s Conscience Protections for Health Care Professionals

It’s a whisper in the news……. You’d have to dig hard to find it.  Obama gutted the  regulations Bush had put into place to protect conscientiously objecting health care professionals from discrimination.

There were essentially no new provisions in Bush’s executive order, except to cause institutions to worry about receiving federal funds if they discriminated against health care professionals who refuse to kill humans in their practice.

Obama has returned the situation to its previous state:  toothless conscience legislation, nearly unenforceable because  unemployed health care professionals usually lack  funds to bring civil redress when incidents of discrimination occur. Also,  what remains of “protection” will only apply to what is obviously recognized as abortion to a layman,   and sterilization.   Objection to chemical abortions at the early stages of human development, and use of various biotech medical devices, unethically derived drugs, vaccines, transplants, implants  (from killed humans) will not be covered.

Actually the situation is worse than it was previously, as the department of Health and Human Services has utterly no interest in hearing or cataloging incidents of discrimination.   The head of this department, Kathleen Sebelius   had no interest in enforcing medical standards applicable to abortion clinics in her home state of Kansas.

It is fortunate  that the new Congress has shown some interest in this situation, otherwise it might be missed entirely by the public.

The actual  repeal is gibberish,  unless one has intimate  familiarity with the underlying laws and regulations.  Heritage Foundation has pretty much put it in English.

The Sebelius HHS will effectively leave conscientiously objecting health care professionals without protections,  and  all should be prepared to find new jobs or careers should a conflict between the employers mandates and personal conscience ever arise.

As  previously, the protection of conscience for health care professionals will largely lie in the power of the internet, to expose  institutions  which  discriminate against health care professionals who refuse to kill, and reduce private business, and  the sources of charitable   donations, funds and grants.

FDA Can’t Handle Drug Shortages, and in Some Cases, is Causing them

Drug Shortages: A Deadly Problem With No Cure in Sight – DailyFinance.

Pharmer’s going to be featuring some articles describing what is seen in the hospitals in the past couple of years……….. ever worsening shortages of chemotherapeutic and injectable drugs.   This has become a severe public health problem due to inability to treat some cancers, and   unnecessary deaths due to unavailable treatments or errors involving drugs used as substitutes.

Here is the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists drug shortage management resource center.

Pharmer thinks this problem has several underlying causes : supply and demand, need to import raw materials,  economic pressures, taxes,  outsourcing, government incompetence, an increasingly useless FDA, natural selection, and death panel philosophy.

The last factor curbs  government enthusiasm for addressing the drug shortage problem vigorously.   Increased deaths lighten the load on social security, medicare and medicaid, and therefore  the shortages  become a means of obamacare  cost control.

House Votes to Defund Obamacare and Planned Parenthood

House blocks funding for health care law – On Politics: Covering the US Congress, Governors, and the 2012 Election – USATODAY.com.

Congressional Republicans are fairly productive today,   Let’s hope they keep up the pace.  Attached to the bill that will keep the government running are amendments to defund IRS collection of mandatory health care payments, an spending of the Dept of Health and Human Services on Obamacare.    They should also pinch off Kathleen Sebelius’s salary ;-).

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49830.html

Funding for  Abortion and Planned Parenthood, the nations largest abortion provider which has been a prime feature of this blog in the last month,  has been cut off.  This has been a special project of Indiana’s Mike Pence.  Be sure to watch some wonderful videos shot at Planned Parenthoods if you haven’t seen them.  Scroll down.  The New York and New Jersey videos are the best.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/house-passes-amendment-to-block-funds-for-net-neutrality-order-20110217

Funding for the implemenatation of the mis-named net neutrality has also been blocked.

Happy Friday.

Dem reveals “abortion” in Planned Parenthood funding debate – Another Media Screwup

“I really planned to speak about something else but the gentleman from New Jersey just put my stomach in knots because I’m one of those women he spoke about just now. I had a procedure at 17 weeks pregnant with a child who moved from the vagina into the cervix. And that procedure that you just described is a procedure that I endured,” Speier said.

via Dem reveals abortion in Planned Parenthood funding debate – The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room.

Sometimes legislators might have to recuse themselves from certain decisions, if their tragic personal experiences prevent them from thinking clearly on the matters.

Congress is debating the defunding of elective abortions.  Congresswoman Jackie Speier  has apparently lost a baby due to a medical problem which she was not able to  accurately describe, though she gave it a try.

It is possible that many of the legislators need some coaching on anatomy and other medical details  so that they can make a cogent determination concerning what is elective abortion.   Most certainly Speier needs some coaching so as to be able to describe her own situation, and distinguish it from the procedures which are about to be defunded.

Pharmer feels quite  certain that Speier’s medical difficulty was  not as she described, and was not dealt with at a planned parenthood clinic.

Planned parenthood is able to support its abortion industry through the fungible tax allocations and medicaid payments which come from state and federal governments.    It will lose more than a third of its income if this is cut off.

The article linked above dishonestly implies that there is a wall of separation between the abortion and other services, facilities and personnel at planned parenthood.   Insiders  and financial reports from that corporation inform us otherwise.

Addendum:
An afternoon surf over to Jill’s blog digs up a 2003 biographical article found by sharp-eyed Janet, which describes Speier’s “abortion” as a miscarraige. It also describes a life peppered with disasters and tragedies.   From the article:

“Instead, she met and married Sierra, becoming the first legislator to give birth in office when her son, Jackson, was born. Then came a miscarriage, then a second miscarriage, in her second trimester. The couple adopted a baby, whom Speier named and joyfully introduced on the Assembly floor, before a fateful call: The birth mother had changed her mind and was going to reclaim the baby.”

Found there also, was the video version, in which the hapless congresswoman makes herself the poster-grrl for abortion, thereby inflicting a  disaster on herself.

Found: A Guy Who Can Tell the Difference Between Boys and Girls

Iowa’s girl wrestlers: Some drama, some sport | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com.

Yes, we found one……… a guy in Iowa who has not been confused by the gender benders of our education system.

Joel Northrup declined to wrestle a girl in a  state tournament, and therefore lost by default.  He has not engaged the media but left an explanation:

“I have a tremendous amount of respect for Cassy and Megan (Black, the tournament’s other female entrant) and their accomplishments. However, wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times. As a matter of conscience and my faith, I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation not seen in most of the high school sports in Iowa.”

Good on Joel, who hasn’t lost his mind, and won’t get down on the ground in front of crowds, grab a girl all over the place, and try  to beat her up  in a wrestling match.

From Fox news comes info that Joel’s dad is the Pastor of an independent Pentecostal Church.  Here’s a quote:

“We believe in the elevation and respect of woman and we don’t think that wrestling a woman is the right thing to do. Body slamming and takedowns, that full contact sport is not how to do that.”

Joel Northrup was 34-5 in this season’s wrestling with Lynn-Mar H.S.,  and considered a strong contender for  the state  tournament, in which he was consigned to consolation rounds for refusing the match with a girl.

Pharmer is happy to see that this athlete is RIGHT IN THE BRAIN.  Congratulations to Joel and his parents.

Wis. Gov. Walker calls Democrat boycott a ‘stunt’ – Yahoo! News

Wis. Gov. Walker calls Democrat boycott a ‘stunt’ – Yahoo! News.

The story behind the story is that teachers took their students out of class for this event to support teachers unions, and many of the students had no clue why they were there. Meanwhile, Democrat legislators left the state in order to delay voting on the bill.

Since we can no longer have people who make less than union workers, supporting the retirement plans for union workers, in addition to their social security,  there will need to be reform. This will happen without the democrats who were bought and paid for by unions.

The Union retirement plans are going bankrupt.   The working people of America cannot afford to support plush early retirements.

Watch the Tea Party driving legislators back into Wisconsin.

Related stories of Union mismanagement:

https://themorningafter.us/obamas-seiu-goons-drop-health-coverage-for-kids-of-low-income-members-in-new-york/

http://washingtonexaminer.com/special-reports/2009/06/union-officer-pension-funds-remain-flush-rank-and-file-retirement-plans-dete

http://pensionpulse.blogspot.com/2010/05/bailing-out-union-pension-funds.html