Author: Pharmer

a rural-dwelling, pro-life pharmacist

Some Leftists are Unteachable, They Must be Defeated Politically

~ Pharmer

Gingrich Slams Media on Limbaugh Focus.

With Extreme, brainwashed Leftists such as David Gregory, of Meet the Depressed, there is no compromise. This man has demonstrated that he cannot take in a new idea that deviates from his narrow template of memorized dogma.

Rush Limbaugh has provided a good deal of live air time for conservatives to express the real issue behind the HHS mandate, which has nothing to do with access to birth control, and everything to do with attacking religious freedom of pro-life people.

Click above and read Newt repeatedly explaining that women have easy access to birth control now, and that the HHS mandate is for the sole purpose of forcing religious people to violate the ethical tenets of their faith. Witness the unresponsivness of Dick Gregory, and evaluate whether he could be trusted to present any issues reliably.

This is an issue for people of any faith, since your religion could be next, at such time when it is found to be inconvenient to the aims of the state.

No viewing of Meet the Depressed was required for this article. You can monitor the media on the internet without wasting the time viewing it, and the accompanying ads.

Update: It’s always fun to see different takes on the media personalities and their modes of operation. The Anchoress has an idea that Gregory might be our man on the inside because he gave Newt his minutes of uninterrupted air time.

One of Pharmer’s more interesting radio interviews involved a host who asked the whole line of left-style questions on the pharmacist conscience issue, which is very much the same vein as this whole HHS mandate business. Pharmer did a similar thing as Newt did, and not for the first time. What added the interest is the call back from this man after the interview. His feelings were hurt by the way he had been addressed by yours truly. He said he was really on our side but was playing devil’s advocate. He had been addressed as the actual opposition.
This man seemed to feel that he had to interview as a leftie in order to have media credibility. Your Pharmer told him that he had been addressed in his assumed role, and he should view it as such.
Maybe these are our people on the “inside”. They do what it takes to stay in position. But maybe if they were not so desperate to be getting along on the inside, that “inside”, which carries so much garbage news, would no longer exist.

*This blog has rapidly expanding new readership. Help yourself to the links, which show as faded print and reveal themselves as you roll the mouse over them.

The 13 Catholic Senators who voted against allowing Catholic organizations conscience rights | LifeSiteNews.com

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The 13 Catholic Senators who voted against allowing Catholic organizations conscience rights | LifeSiteNews.com.

Catholic Senators who voted against the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act as the Blunt amendment

Mark Begich Alaska D
Tom Harkin Iowa D
Richard Durbin Illinois D
Mary Landrieu Louisiana D
John Kerry Massachusetts D
Barbara Mikulski Maryland D
Claire McCaskill Missouri D
Robert Menendez New Jersey D
Kirsten Gillibraind New York D
Jack Reed Rhode Island D
Pat Leahy Vermon D
Maria Cantwell Washington D
Patty Murray Washington D

*update- add Lisa Murkowski Alaska R, because she wishes she could take back her vote. She meant it to be about religious freedome, but she thinks her voters who want “free” birth control should be able to have what they want, because they’ve whined the loudest.

On the sidebar of this blog are links to the U.S. Senate and House, if you are in the mood to communicate with these people. Also check out the

The Catholic Advocate Congressional Scorecard

Tornado Disasters in Flyover Country – Wanna Help?

~ Pharmer

U.S. News – At least 28 killed in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio as tornadoes sweep Midwest, South.

Tornadoes damage Missouri, Southern Illinois, Kansas killing 9

You know what happens when the disasters are here in FLYOVER COUNTRY.
These survivors will be picking themselves up.
Ya, we heard the screaming sirens Down on the Pharm, and the storms passed on either side of us.
We’ve had our own little tornado before, which did a right angle around the Pharmhouse and tore up trees and flipped outbuildings. But that was NOTHING compared to the disasters linked above. The towns are trashed and people are dead.
Pharmer found the closest Catholic Church with a website to two of the most flattened areas, Henryville and Marysville, Indiana. You know your $$$$$$ won’t get wasted IF YOU SEND IT TO ST. MICHAELS. It’s connected to St. Francis Church which is ground zero of the Henryville disaster and they’re using the basement as a shelter.
AAA TORNADO DISASTER RELIEF link will stay on the sidebar.

*Fr Steven Schaftlein, pastor of both parishes, says the ‘best address to send help is St. Michael, 101 St. Michael Drive, Charlestown, IN 47111′, and he’s very appreciative of everyone’s efforts to assist.

* Update in Henrysville. Life on Sunday.

After What They Did to Palin, Lefties are Whining

~ Pharmer

Call a Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance!

Lefties whined when Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University Law student, was refused an opportunity to tout birth control and the desire to have it funded by others, at a hearing on the constitutionality of Obama’s HHS mandate.

Rush Limbaugh has seized the opportunity to give the grrls a taste of their own medicine.

He said that if tax payers have to pay for that law student to have sex, they should be able to see videos of it. He compared Ms. Fluke to a prostitute, for wanting the money from others in order to have sex, and likened the tax payers to johns.

What is it when a woman expects money for conducting her sex life? Rush made a reasonable analogy. Leftists are now shrieking about his disrespect for women.

What have they been doing to Sarah Palin since 2008, though she has never made such a request from others, and has comported herself with dignity?

What are they doing when they deny female patients the right of informed consent about birth control and abortion? What are they doing when they enable and support the sex selective abortions of girls? What are they doing when they oppose efforts to upgrade abortion facilities to at least the standards of veterinary clinics?

Rush has tweeked the media again, as he did when he invented the term feminazi. This is a sustained action tweek, which will pay off in much free media exposure of Lefties’ insane expectation that others be forced to pay for their recreational drugs.

Update *Over the weekend, Rush relented and apologized for some of his terminology used to describe Ms. Fluke. Congressman Darrell Issa is in no mood for apology, as his female staffers are enduring much worse vitriol because of his hearings on the constitutionality of the HHS mandate.

** Jimmy Castor Bunch experiences revival of their 40 year old hit: Troglodyte, thanks to Rush. Think of the Georgetown ladies going back to the barefoot and pregnant state, if they can’t get taxpayers to fund their birth control.

Master of the Obvious on Proton Pump Inhibitors

~ Pharmer

Proton Pump Inhibitors Linked to C difficile Diarrhea.

Some obvious things need a study to be established as fact.

The acidity of the stomach is good for beginning the digestion of proteins and for protecting the gut from unwanted, microbial, disease causing organisms. It also contributes to immediate and later absorption of vital nutrients such as iron. When the proton pump inhibitors such as prevacid, nexium, protonix first came onto the market, and were said to be much more effective in reducing stomach acid, Pharmer told the retail patients to be careful what food they ate at the picnics and wedding receptions. It would be easier to get bacterial food poisoning while taking a proton pump inhibitor. Pharmer also began mentioning to patients that it would decrease absorption of iron.

Who paid the FDA to put proton pump inhibitors over the counter? (Weren’t the H2 blockers, e.g. cimetidine, famotidine, enough?)

People are chowing down on these strong stomach acid suppressors, using them like Tums. Diarrheal episodes abound. Clostridium difficile (among other beastly buggs) blooms throughout the nursing homes, community, and hospitals. It’s getting more and more difficult to deal with, as resistance to antibiotics increases.

Amazing! There’s an association between use of the proton pump inhibitors and clostridium infections.

Proton pump inhibitors are what you use when life style changes fail and none of the other antacids work. See a physician who isn’t so crazy with the prescription pad.

Biden (Gaffe Machine): We “Screwed Up” Conscience Issues in the Mandate

~ Pharmer

Biden: We "Screwed Up" Conscience Issues in the Mandate | LifeNews.com.

What’s the current state of Obama’s HHS mandate to force insurance companies to cover birth control / abortifacients /sterilizations?

Life News kicks a comprehensive article off with Biden’s admission that the initial mandate was a screw up, and that he didn’t do his job. He’s not smart enough to know that the insurance mandate in its current form is equally as bad, and equally unconstitutional. He’s also not smart enough to know how many religiously run health care institutions offer self insured employee health care coverage. Yes, Biden is a gaffe machine in word and in deed.

Other highlights: Blunt amendment has been tabled and it is coming around again under a new name: Respect for Rights of Conscience Act.

In the house, The Fortenberry bill is the most well supported remedy to overturn the HHS amendment.

There are even some Democrats who have seen the light, and understand that Obama’s egregious violation of the First Amendment, is a negative drag on their efforts for reelection in 2012.

Freedom of Worship

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Obama speaks of freedom of worship, and no longer freedom of religion. What’s the difference? You can hide in your church and do your rituals in Obamaville, but you can’t exercise the tenets of your faith in the public square. The government will not let you behave as your religion directs.
This difference is what Santorum was highlighting when he spoke of Kennedy’s speech. Kennedy was assuring the potential opposition that he would NOT BEHAVE AS HIS RELIGION DIRECTED. In retrospect, we know that is the case, from his governmental dealings to his use and prostitution of his 19 year old intern mistress. There remain practicing Catholics who find the Kennedy family, Pelosi, and Biden to be an embarrassment.
Obama has clearly indicated that Christians are consigned to the statist version of dhimmitude. He is willing to accept millions of deaths resulting from dissolution of a huge portion of our health care institutions in order to complete his downsizing of America.

Journal editor defends pro-infanticide piece: Killing newborns is already legal in Holland | LifeSiteNews.com

~ Pharmer

Learn about the Groningen Protocol, a standard which determines which newborn babies may be killed in the Netherlands.

Pro-life people have known about the infanticide occurring in America and throughout the world for many years, but it seems that the rest of people are still in shock from the pronouncements by two Australian “bioethicists” that this is OK, based on considering it as an extension of abortion.
The authors after getting so many “love letters” about their publication, have explained that they “join disability activists who condemn the routine recommendation of abortion for no other reason than to prevent the death of an affected baby.”
They see waiting until birth as a better alternative, because there is less chance of a false diagnosis of anomalies and a better assessment can be made of a newborn.
Journal of Medical Ethics editor, Julian Savulescu, who has also argued against waiting until patients are dead before organ harvesting, has taken time out to defend the pro-infanticide article, saying essentially that it is nothing new.
What’s new is that the general public is uncomfortable with killing a baby who is visible.