Month: February 2013

Why Raising the Minimum Wage is Harmful

~ Pharmer

In plain language, this column, linked below, explains why raising the minimum wage is a disaster. It will eliminate millions of entry level jobs which would have trained young people for their later careers, and supplied them with income to further their education. This is similar to the effect that Union demands for higher wages and benefits has had in knocking the younger members into the ranks of the unemployed. The net effect of raising the minimum wage is to inhibit education and upward mobility for those who are not raised in affluent circumstances.
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Obama’s Promise To End My Son’s Job: Why It Is Personal : The Last Resistance.

Dr. Suzanna Hupp Reminds Us How A Massacre is Stopped

~ Pharmer

Dr. Suzanna Hupp lost her parents in the Luby massacre in Texas in 1991, and has been a concealed carry advocate ever since.  She unfortunately had not been carrying on the fateful day she was in the restaurant with her parents.   The video below (a classic!) is her original testimony before Congress  a couple of years after the event.    Go HERE to see a C-span video of her more recent testimony this past Monday. 


 

Shortage of Aggies, and Farmland Prices are Rising

~ Pharmer

As the average age of farmers begins to approach the average age of abortionists,  one wonders what is the problem???  Is working the land as unattractive as killing babies?

Farming is a much more hazardous profession to the worker, and perhaps this, as well as the uncertainty of outcome, worries people who are attuned to receiving a weekly paycheck.

The value of farmland is rising, and this has certain tax implications for the owners.  With the new death tax, it means that they have to be very smart in planning matters of incorporation and  inheritance  if they want their businesses to continue.

One thing is for certain………. there is a shortage of aggies, and those who are up to the challenge will not be among the jobless in the coming years.

Breitbart HighlightsAbortionist LeRoy Carhart’s Relationship with Kathleen Sebelius

~ Pharmer

Woman Dies in Late-Term Abortion Performed by Doctor Linked to Sebelius.

Click above to see Breitbart’s reminder to us of the connection between Kathleen Sebelius, Obama’s HHS Secretary, and LeRoy Carhartt. Sebelius hosted a big abortion dinner party for 25 guests, the staff at George Tiller’s famous clinc, which made Kansas the late term abortion capital of the U.S.
LeRoy Carhartt was one of the illuminaries who worked with Tiller at the time, and he and his wife Mary Lou Carhart attended the dinnner at the Governor’s mansion.

Operation Rescue has the story and the pics of this event, HERE.

Breitbart points out LeRoy Carhart’s political and legal history, as well as the national renown which has drawn thousands of protestors to his clinic when it opened and as it continues to operate.

The mainstream media is trying hard to ignore the latest botched abortion at Carhart’s clinic in Germantown, Maryland, in which both mom and 33 week old baby were killed. The blogosphere will not let this story be swept under the rug.

Abandoned: the Fort Hood Victims of Major Hasan

~ Pharmer

Fort Hood Hero Says Obama ‘Betrayed’ Her, Other Victims – ABC News.

The Obama administration has sought to save health care funds by downgrading the shootings of Ft. Hood as “workplace violence”.

Though Obama saw fit to kill Maj. Nidal Hasan’s alleged instigator, Anwar al-Awlaki, and his underage son by a drone attack, calling them terrorists,  he oddly would not treat the veterans who were killed or wounded in the attack as is customary in the military.  Many of them were forced to leave the military as a result of their injuries, but they do not have the usual benefits and medical coverage that would be accorded to wounded veterans.

Some are having to find private physicians to treat their ongoing injuries.  Sgt. Kimberly Munley, who was shot three times  while confronting Hasan,  has been laid off.   Her partner Sgt. Mark Todd  is the one credited with the five shots which stopped Hasan’s rampage.

Munley is the veteran who was used for an Obama photo-0p, sitting next to Michelle Obama, at the 2010 state of the union address.  She now feels betrayed, and let down after Obama’s promise that the victims would be well taken care of.

A lawsuit is in the works against the military, as is a movie about the Ft. Hood shooting.   You can learn more about this group which is among  the  thousands of Obama photo-op “victims” who were promised administrative ‘love’ and  federal aid, and were subsequently abandoned.  CLICK HERE!

Dr. Benjamin Carson for President

~ Pharmer

Even prior to his famous and viral speech, lots of people have been asking the plain spoken and practical Dr. Benjamin Carson to run for president.
Here’s another interview, in which Dr. Carson informs us that he will retire from pediatric neurosurgery, and move into the area of education.

Available HERE is an interview with Allen West, who explains that, in the eyes of the leftie media, Dr. Carson broke the unwritten rule that Black men cannot criticize Obama.

CNN Newcaster Gaffe of the Month — Does Global Warming Affect Meteor Path?

~ Pharmer

This is NOT a parody…… found at Newsbusters.  CNN anchor Deb Feyerick really asked if global warming had an influence on the meteor passing nearby to Earth on Feb 15th.

One of the priceless gems:   “Talk about something else that’s falling from the sky and that is an asteroid. What’s coming our way? Is this an effect of, perhaps, of global warming or is this just some meteoric occasion?”

 

Soylent Brown- Double Horsemeat Fraud

~ Pharmer

Horsemeat found in British supermarkets ‘may be donkey’ – Home News – UK – The Independent.

It seems that a change in Romanian regulations has banned horses drawn carriages from the roads.   This has resulted in wholesale slaughter of horses, and is said to have precipitated fraudulent horse meat distribution throughout Europe.

Now it appears that there may be an added problem.  Some of the horse meat might actually be DONKEY!!   Is it actual donkeys, or have leftists taken their convictions about recycling to the max??  🙂

The Food Standards Agency of Europe is rejecting the idea of a ban on all meat imports.  Their claim is that all the products on sale are safe for human consumption.

Pharmer begs to differ.

 

Pope Benedict XVI resigns, effective Feb 28.

~ Pharmer

It’s best to get the news in the Pope’s own words, brought to you by NewsMax.

Text of Pope Announcement he Will Resign Feb. 28.

“Dear Brothers,

I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is.

Dear Brothers, I thank you most sincerely for all the love and work with which you have supported me in my ministry and I ask pardon for all my defects. And now, let us entrust the Holy Church to the care of Our Supreme Pastor, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and implore his holy Mother Mary, so that she may assist the Cardinal Fathers with her maternal solicitude, in electing a new Supreme Pontiff. With regard to myself, I wish to also devotedly serve the Holy Church of God in the future through a life dedicated to prayer.”

 

Prayers for a peaceful retirement for Pope Benedict, and for the best guy to be chosen to succeed him.

It’s a good guess that the Pope wants the Church to have a vigorous and energetic leader during the tumultuous times ahead.  Pope Benedict has an IQ of  nine hundred 😉  but is the polar opposite of so many of our leaders today, who could not let go of power.   He knows that  it’s the mission, not the man, and likely wants to help pick the next Pope.

(Pharmer  would like it if  Cardinal Francis Arinze, were chosen, but that might be a long shot because he is 80 years old already, and might not feel up to the rigors of the job. Another possible pick is Cardinal Peter Turkson, of Ghana.  It would be good to have a Pope from an area of the world where the Church is growing, and where Catholics have  faced persecution, who would be ready to face the turmoil to come.)