Year: 2012

Effort to Undo the Indiana Supreme Court Decision Overturning 4th Amendment Rights

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AllGov – News – Indiana First State to Allow Citizens to Shoot Law Enforcement Officers.

Justice Steven David,  a Mitch Daniels appointee authored an Indiana Supreme Court decision which ruled that there was no “right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers”.

Governor Daniels has signed legislation which responds to that decision by allowing Indiana residents to shoot law enforcement officers who unlawfully enter their homes. Senator R. Michael Young authored the legislation in order to provide an avenue of defense for citizens against unlawful use of force by public servants.

From Bloomberg :  “Young cited a hypothetical situation of a homeowner returning to see an officer raping his daughter or wife. Under the court’s ruling, the homeowner could not touch the officer and only file a lawsuit later, he said. Young said he devised the idea for the law after the court ruling”

The legislation was opposed by the Indiana State Fraternal order of Police, which imagines that it would make a big difference in what happens to police who are entering a home. The NRA, on the other hand, backed the legislation.

Justice Steven David’s initial term is up in November.   The voters have a chance to toss him out.

Mitch Daniels has obviously sought to create some distance between himself and his Supreme court appointee with his approval of this new law.

 

FINALLY: House committee schedules Contempt Vote against Eric Holder

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House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder – Political Hotsheet – CBS News.

Pharmer has been waiting a long time for the House to begin proceedings against Attorney General Eric Holder, for his refusal to cooperate with their investigation of the gun running of the Fast and Furious operation in Mexico.  Possibly Holder’s ridiculous  claim, that emails mentioning Fast and Furious were not about Fast and Furious, was the tipping point.

The U.S. government sent guns to Mexico in order to raise controversy about their use by drug cartels, and use this as an excuse to undermine our  Second Amendment rights.

Use of Fast and Furious supplied weapons is connected to  many deaths including hundreds of Mexican citizens outside of the cartels, and U.S. border and ICE agents.

The  executive branch of government has assisted the killings by Mexican drug cartels in order to whip up antipathy towards American gun owners.

Congressional action against   Eric Holder  is long overdue.

 

Commerce Secretary John Bryson Treated for Seizure after Auto Accidents

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Commerce Secretary John Bryson given medication after seizure – latimes.com.

Obama’s new commerce secretary, John Bryson was hospitalized after an series of auto accidents in Los Angeles on Saturday.  He passed a breathalyzer  test.   Bryson  has since been released following initiation of treatment for a seizure which may have precipitated the driving difficulties.

Pharmer wonders  if the initial symptoms might have been manifest  in 2011, when Mr. Bryson first agreed to accept the appointment as Obama’s commerce secretary.

Prayers for his health, which possibly has taken a  serious downhill turn.

 

Women on Contraceptive Pill Should Pay $1,500 a Year More Tax – Forbes

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Women on Contraceptive Pill Should Pay $1,500 a Year More Tax – Forbes.

Forbes contributor Tim Worstall has proposed that women who use birth control pills should be taxed similarly to other individuals and entities which pollute the water.   This is based on the endocrine disruption effects attributed to hormones which make their way into the general water supply from the urine of pill users.

It’s all about saving the fish from the sex altering effects of steroid hormone metabolites.  The green thing do do is to clean up the water,  and stick contraceptive users with the tab.  The profit margins from pill production are not high enough to cover the clean up so  Mr. Worstall takes manufacturers off the hook.

Unmentioned in the top linked  article is the gender bending effects that the feminizing hormones might be having on male humans.…..  This might be the impetus for the urgency to clean the water.

Whoopsie Baby! Sandoz recalls Generic BC pills: Introvale

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Sandoz  has voluntarily recalled Introvale  brand of birth control pills,  because the placebo pills are in the wrong position of the pack.

If you have lot number : LF00478C, LF00479C, LF00551C, LF00552C, LF00687C, LF00688C, LF00763C, LF00764C, LF00765C  or  LF01261C,  distributed only in the US between January 2011 and May 2012,  your pills could be less effective than usual for whatever reason you were taking them.

Click the top for the FDA warning.

Abby Johnson Announces “And Then There Were None”

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Planned Parenthood Mtg on Overbilling Govt: “We Won’t Get Caught” | LifeNews.com.

Above linked is an open letter to abortion clinic workers, telling them about the fraudulent billing in the industry,  other law breaking activities of the industry, and the fact that the clinic workers have been thrown under the bus in these cases.

Abby announces her new ministry website  And Then There Were None, offering assistance to abortion clinic workers who would like to bail out of the industry.

 

Korea: Morning-after pills changed to OTC status, Daily BC pills changed to prescription only

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Morning-after pills can be bought OTC.

South Korea used to sell most forms of birth control over the counter, with the morning after pills being prescription only. They have reversed this trend, putting nine of eleven brands of morning after pill over the counter. Note: the articles in English do not specify if prescription status of Ulipristal acetate is affected in this change.

The KDFA justification for changing daily administered birth control pill brands to prescription status is due to their side effects, which were listed at the Korea Herald as: thrombosis, thromboembolism, thrombo puerperalis, myocardial infarction, cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral thrombosis among others. The pills are banned from being administered to women with breast cancer, endometrial cancer, hepatitis and thromboembolism. Their use is also restricted among women who are over 40 years old, obese, have headaches, depression or other related conditions.

The Korean association of OB-Gyns is not in favor of putting morning after pills over the counter, citing studies that show that their availability does not reduce abortion demand.
The Catholic Diocese of Cheongju has registered opposition, stating that they will call for KFDA head Lee Hee-sung to resign.

In the above linked report, as with most news articles in countries where abortion has become controversial, there is the unsupported claim that the BC works only by affecting ovulation.

In opposition to this, the Drinks Business Review reports:
“KFDA officer Cho Ki-ho said  according to their panel of experts, the main mechanism behind the emergency pills is the interference of hormonal action, linked to interference of implantation.”

“”We are hoping that the wider access to the morning-after pill will prevent unwanted pregnancies. Because the drug is effective within 12 hours from sexual intercourse and at utmost 72 hours, time and access to the drug is very important. The pill is not an ordinary contraceptive. It is for very limited, urgent and frightening situations only,” Cho said.”

United Methodist Church pro-abortion ideology might have aborted Jesus | Bound4LIFE

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United Methodist Church pro-abortion ideology might have aborted Jesus | Bound4LIFE.

Susan Michelle Tyrrell has noticed the same thing that Pharmer noticed awhile back, that the United Methodist Church is an abortion supporting organization and a member of the “O”bominable Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.
She quotes directly from the United Methodists Social Principles in its Book of Discipline: “The beginning of life and the ending of life are the God-given boundaries of human existence. While individuals have always had some degree of control over when they would die, they now have the awesome power to determine when and even whether new individuals will be born.”

Yes, this church presumes to take over the decisions which should be regarded as exclusively in the purview of the Creator. Tyrrell notes that the Church has many pro-life members who might not be paying attention to what the church leadership is doing with their donations.

The United Methodist’s support of abortion is unmistakable: “Our belief in the sanctity of unborn human life makes us reluctant to approve abortion. But we are equally bound to respect the sacredness of the life and well-being of the mother, for whom devastating damage may result from an unacceptable pregnancy.”

Tyrrell notes that the United Methodists rationale for supporting abortion would have encompassed the socially unacceptable pregnancy of Mary. Yes, it would have been ok with the United Methodists to abort Jesus.

Pharmer has had to make the same kind of decision that Tyrrell appears to be asking the pro-life members of the United Methodist Church to make, and that is to avoid funding the support of abortion.

Pharmer’s parish appears to be picking churches from the member list of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice for service experiences for the grade school kids. Yours truly has had to keep her number three kid home from the Jr. National Honor Society service trips, and the eighth grade service trip in order to avoid indirectly supporting this organization and its member churches. It’s kind of sad to have a feeling of not fitting into one’s parish for ethical reasons, and for that to be affecting the kids adversely. Fortunately there are Clergy and administrators who try harder to avoid complicity with the culture of death, and Pharmer is keeping an eye out.

Celestial Discharge: Ray Bradbury Author of Fahrenheit 451

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R.I.P. Ray Bradbury, Author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles.

At the age of 91, Ray Bradbury, renowned author and Tea Partier, has passed on to the next life.

Bradbury wrote science fiction classics that astronauts cut their teeth on. In his later years, this anti authoritarian turned towards conservatism, which fit his thinking patterns better than the nanny state model of the left.

One of Bradbury’s notable beefs with Obama concerned the administrations destruction of the NASA space exploration initiatives.

Getting to Know Planned Parenthood through its founder

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MARGARET SANGER IN HER OWN WORDS:

Hat tip to Tamminator at Hillbuzz who tells us that planned unparenthood has gotten itself into a Los Angeles high school, where it can pollute the kids, dispense birth control, and refer for abortions, all without parental intervention. Planned unparenthood can employ its trademark chemical and abortive methods for regulating the population of the mostly Latino student body of Roosevelt High School from within the facility.