Month: January 2012

Hospital Aborts Wrong Twin in Horrible Mistake | The Stir

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Hospital Aborts Wrong Twin in Horrible Mistake | The Stir.

From Australia comes a story of a woman who decided to abort one of her twins due to a untoward fetal diagnosis of  a heart defect. (In the pre-Obama care U.S.  there are still  corrective options for fetal heart defects.)

Due to an error, at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, the healthy twin was killed instead.   The mistake was discovered at 32 weeks gestation, at which time the twin with the heart defect (according to the article) was delivered by “emergency” c-section and then killed.

The article’s author commiserates with the mom who has “lost two children”.

These two children were not lost.   They were both willfully killed.

The governmental  health care administrators  might wish to consider the cost of post infanticide  mental damage  to the mother, and compare it to the cost of fetal or neonatal cardiac repair, or even the cost of keeping a newborn comfortable if  he or she  has a fatal defect.

Leftist Media Opposes Religious Diversity Among Christians

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Santorum Staffer Under Fire for Sexist Email: Is It God’s Highest Desire…to Have a Woman Rule? | TheBlaze.com.

The media is now in a feeding frenzy regarding a private email from a campaign staffer, Jamie Johnson, of  the Santorum campaign, because that person is not ready to have a female president of the United States.

The email, detailed above, was sent through his private account, not the campaign account,  was passed to Bachmann’s campaign, and then exposed publicly.

Pharmer, ever vigilant to the gaping inconsistencies of leftist policy draws the gentle reader’s attention to the most favored religion of our media and academic institutions:  Islam.

Islam regards women as a  natural repository of evil, and source of temptation.  The afterlife prospects of Islamic women are not good, and there is persistent segregation and suppression of the females in Islamic cultures.  In Sharia law is acceptible to punish a woman for being raped.

Hopefully that will put in to proportion the media consternation that the Santorum campaign contains a staffer who does not think a woman should be president of the United States.

The religion of Rick Santorum himself contains no such restriction.

 

Suddenly the Left is Objecting to Golden Showers

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Media Matters Tries To Stir Controversy Over Loesch, Limbaugh – Fails – Big Journalism.

This is a significant turnaround by our leftist media, which has been wailing and gnashing teeth over a video of U.S. Marines urinating on corpses of their Taliban enemies.

In leftie-land, prior to this time of new puritanism,  urinating on someone was considered an acceptable alternative sex practice.  It has been called golden showers, and is one of the activities more  commonly associated with, but by no means limited to the gay community.

What is the source of the vehement leftie objection to providing golden showers to those Taliban corpses?  Perhaps  the fact that the deceased could not enjoy the warmth or the “fun” of being peed on, is seen as a problem.  Incest and pedophilia have not aroused such ire in the media in recent years,  nor has the torture of U.S. soldiers, and abuse of their corpses by various enemies.

Pharmer is expecting this (weird)  “water sport”  to increase among the military population, with the mixing of the sexes, as well as the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell” policies.

Wasserman-Schultz: Minorities Need Government Assistance

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Racist/Bigot alert:

“There is a reason that the Democratic Party is far more diverse than the Republican Party, because the natural home, politically on major issues to Hispanics, to women, to Jews, to Asian-Americans, the diverse spectrum — to African Americans.”

“The entire spectrum of diversity is comfortable in the Democratic Party because we stand up for the issues that matter to those communities and Republicans shun them.”

via Wasserman Schultz: “Natural Home” For Minorities Is Democratic Party | RealClearPolitics.

Translation:  Minorities need the government assistance and population control methods  that Democrats provide, using money that the U.S no longer has.  

The success of the Democrat party overall  has depended upon their misrepresentation of their activities and agenda.   As more people turn off the leftist media, and become more attentive to the misdeeds of the government,  Dems  will lose their grip on power.

Crony Capitalism at the FDA – Comes Back To Bite

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Medical News: FDA Yaz Panel Had Ties to Industry – in Washington-Watch, FDA General from MedPage Today.

Some of the panalists on the FDA advisory committee which endorsed the Yaz and Yazmin branded birth control pills, had ties to Bayer, the manufacturer of those pills.

The panelists of the Reproductive Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory committee  jointly voted 15 to 11  that the benefits of drosperinone-containing BCPs outweighed the risks.

Some  members reported their financial  ties to Bayer,  and the FDA thought that was just fine, and not a conflict of interest sufficient for their exclusion from the advisory groups.

Sidney Wolfe, MD, of Public Citizen comsumer advocacy group had opposed that class of birth control pills due to risk of thromboembolism.   His role on the advisory committee was reduced to non-voting status due to his ‘intellectual conflicts’.

Intellectual conflict = bad.  Financial conflict = good.

What goes around, comes around, and Bayer has to feed the lawyers now, after years of untoward post-marketing experience.

Was this an purposefully  constructed food chain?

 

Prison Life Might Have Prepared Inmate for This

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North Carolina cops are convinced that 22 year old fugitive  Michael Leon Ward might have smuggled a 38 caliber  revolver into his prison cell.   He was thoroughly strip searched, however,  at the time of admission to the county jail, leaving them with one theory concerning the transport. 

That haunting Eddy Murphy song comes to mind.   Yes…… the police  think he was packing heat  rectally.   The 10 inch revolver was found in the toilet of the inmate’s cell.

It was test fired by some lucky official, and found to be operational.

Mr. Ward is said to have been taken to the hospital for injuries to his internal gun holster.

Do We Have Room to Criticize?

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This video is said to be of a four month old baby who is claimed to have been tortured to death by Syrian forces suppressing those who protest against Bashir Assad.

At The Blaze there is more coverage of the conflicts, with a good deal of commentary about the barbarity of people who torture babies.  The Daily Mail tells of a large dump of films on YouTube and social media, coming from the protesters.   Many of the commenters there  are skeptical of the  films’ content.

Considering the manner in which the unborn and sometimes newborn babies are killed in the U.S., are we in a position to be castigating the Syrians?

Perils of Government Funded Catholic Schools

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Catholic school principal fired for promoting 40 Days for Life fights back with statement | LifeSiteNews.com.

Because of the government funding of Catholic schools,  the Archdiocese of  St Boniface had to fire a principal at Christ the King elementary school.   David Hood lost his position for encouraging the students to participate in the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil. One wonders if David Bereit and company could suggest legal help for Mr. Hood.

The school in Manitoba, Canada is 50 percent funded by the government, and therefore is a dependent ward of the state.  The funding is forfeited for participating in political activity.   The pro-aborts of Canada categorize abortion as politics in order to suppress free speech on the matter.   At issue is a claim that student service credit was to be offered for students who participated in the prayer vigil.   Hood says that no student received such credit.

Naturally  the Canadian Catholic Church, as a ward of the government is not free to  teach its students that abortion is wrong, or  that it is a thing to be opposed.

Catholic schools in the U.S. are accepting government grants, and to the extent that they receive this money, their activities and teachings are  similarly curtailed.

Stupid Lawsuit of the Year for 2011

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Dead Accident Victim to Be Sued For Flying Body Parts – Court allows woman to sue estate of Chicago teen killed by train.

It would take a Windy City  appellate  judge to make this decision.  A dead Chicago teen, Hiroyuki Joho, is being sued for injuries caused by his flying body parts.

He was running across train tracks trying to catch a Metra  train, and was hit by an Amtrak train going 70 mph.  A good sized flying chunk of his body hit a 58 year old woman, Gayane Zokhrabov, standing on a train platform and she sued for injury damages.

What largess is  this woman is expecting from the estate of an 18 year old???  Perhaps she was hoping that the boy’s mother would win her suit against the railroads, but both the first decision and the appeal were lost.

 

What about Pro Choice?

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Teen Spared For Two More Weeks From Parents Forcing Abortion | LifeNews.com.

Kristen Hawkens of Students for Life has searched the abortion supporting blogosphere for commentary on the 14 year old TX girl whose family is trying to force her to abort.

A Judge has given the girl  a two week reprieve from having her parents drag her into a a clinic to kill her unborn baby, while it decides whether or not the execution should occur.

So far, there is little to no support for the CHOICE of the girl not to abort.  This is as expected, as we knew  that the pro-choice euphemism was a lie.   “Choice” = abortion.

Also disturbing is the fact that the judge only granted a two-week injunction, in December, stopping the family from forcing the abortion.

In January the judge extended the reprieve to the 19th, and appointed a guardian to protect the girl, who has accused a cousin of assaulting her in order to coerce the abortion.  She is represented by attorneys with the Texas center for Defense of Life.

The most comprehensive article on this ongoing case, listing the names of some family members and the names of intervening judicial officials, is found at The Daily Mail.   This news source states that Judge Missy Medary appointed a guardian for the girl, and passed two injuctions.   The girl, now 10 weeks along is apparently living with the relatives  of her boyfriend who  ‘will back any decision she makes’.

Ms. Carmen Pantoja, the grandmother of the girl, claimed that no one was forcing an abortion, but that she had suggested it.  She  has since  told ABC news that the girl is “going to have her baby”