and it’s largely due to immigration. from countries of the former Soviet Union.

A 4% decline in mortality rate is credited with an assist.

Russia seeks to maintain a population of 145 million, but has difficulties with an abortion rate of 1.2 million compared to a birth rate of 1.4 million per year.

The performance of their own population keeps Russia below replacement rate.

This Case is a Reason Coakley could even lose a few liberal votes.

Some saw Coakley as lax on ’05 rape case – The Boston Globe

Barbara Curtis covers the Coakley Brown race on her blog, Mommy Life. She notes that Obama drew a crowd of 1100, which indicates either a lack of preparation, or the condition of a fading star. Pharmer recommends wandering around Barbara’s blog after you read this:

Mommy Life: Brown v. Coakley in Massachusetts

RealClearPolitics – Video – Obama Heckled At Coakley Rally

It’s getting a little different out there for Obama at his rallys.
Of course this one couldn’t be planned well in advance with only the chosen followers invited to attend.

MSNBC’s Schultz says he’d cheat to keep Scott Brown from winning the Massachusetts senate race against Martha Coakley..

Pharmer went to Mass and heard a priest reference the evangelist who attributed the earthquake to Haitians pact with devil in exchange for freedom from France. The priest contrasted the evangelist with God who is merciful (without knowing that in the same interview, the evangelist requested his listeners to pray for the Haitians and send aid, because they are suffering.)

Yours truly is always in the odd position… having to defend the actual faith of Catholicism to people who see the shortcomings of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, for example, while on the other hand, admonishing this priest (after mass)  and others to pay attention to what Pat Robertson actually DOES, though he is known to say politically incorrect things on occasion.
A search revealed   that Pat Robertson’s idea about the origins of Haitian independence were not self generated. Whether an actual pact with the devil was involved could not be ascertained from this info. The idea comes from a Voodoo ceremony said to have marked a meeting of people fighting for Haitian freedom at Bois-Caïman near Cap-Haïtien. This idea is repeated by Haitians as well as Christian missionaries who have served in Haiti. Though the claim can’t be established without doubt, we can be certain that Pat Robertson didn’t make it up.
Also, in asking people to pray for Haitians, it certainly appears that Pat Robertson does NOT believe, a theory mentioned by Obama, that God has abandoned Haiti.

http://www.americandaily.com/article/95 -Proponents of the Voodoo = satanism origins of Haitian freedom.

http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=14079 -This author doesn’t like Clinton, Aristide, or voodoo.

http://www.ldsfreedomforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=109761 -This author is one who claims to have heard the story repeated by Pat Robertson from Haitians themselves.

http://www.blackandchristian.com/articles/academy/gelin-10-05.shtml
http://www.blackandchristian.com/articles/academy/gelin-11-05.shtml   (still looking for part 3)- This author does not agree with the devil pact theory.  It’s worth checking back for it  later.

http://momento24.com/en/2010/01/14/obama-haiti-is-a-priority-for-the-u-s/ And here’s Obama;’s speech to the Haitians:

“I want to speak directly to the people of Haiti, you have suffered for a long time and to have to deal with this new disaster will make you wonder why God has abandoned Haiti. I’m going to tell you that we won’t forget you, we won’t abandon you. The United States are on your side, the world is, you’ve endured a history of slavery and your faith has been unwavering” 

Update: English version found and double checked by lip reading the video under the spanish translated one at momento24.com

Finally, I want to speak directly to the people of Haiti. Few in the world have endured the hardships that you have known. Long before this tragedy, daily life itself was often a bitter struggle. And after suffering so much for so long, to face this new horror must cause some to look up and ask, have we somehow been forsaken?
To the people of Haiti, we say clearly, and with conviction, you will not be forsaken; you will not be forgotten. In this, your hour of greatest need, America stands with you. The world stands with you. We know that you are a strong and resilient people. You have endured a history of slavery and struggle, of natural disaster and recovery. And through it all, your spirit has been unbroken and your faith has been unwavering.

 

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45% of physicians plan to retire early in the event of obamacare.

Insiders have told us that Planned Parenthood pushes its clinic directors to drum up abortion business.  Ask Abby Johnson, for example.

Plan B, certainly is good for bringing abortion business since it’s less effective than the withdrawal method. (That’s evident from the Plan B package insert.) WHAT A SCAM!

Catholic hospitals serve 16 percent of US patients, and as non profits, handle a good load of the indigent patients. Those hospitals are either going to have to abort or close

Coakley gave the public a window to see what’s coming. Take a look.

Once health care providers are forced to provide abortions, women will be forced to have abortions, and this coercion will be even stronger than vaccine coercion.

Thanks Jill Stanek and Matt Drudge for putting up the Coakley interview.

Kieth Olberman used the tragedy of Haiti to sell Obama care…. but got an amazing admission from this NY congressman about U.S. health care.

Weiner:
Well, I think if we were to have a circumstance like this, we’d all rally around. And it’s the same way, frankly, every single day, when people go into a hospital or an emergency room, there is some question asked, let me see your insurance card, but at the end of the day, we care for them. So we really don’t have a discussion in this country whether or not we’re going to have health care for everyone. We really do. The only question we’re having now, and it seems almost silly, it’s so petty, is how we’re going to distribute that health care, how we’re going to pay for it, how we’re going to make sure everyone has it at an affordable level…

It’s not about access, government run health care is about CONTROL

People are ragging on Pat Robertson for connecting the disasters of Haiti to a deal supposedly made between Haitians and the Devil in exchange for freedom from France. That Robertson and Company are praying for the Haitians and sending Aid seems not to have any bearing on the public opinion.

But Pharmer finds the Danny Glover theory, connecting failure of the Copenhagen talks to earthquakes to be really off the wall.

PACT WITH GAIA | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

YUP, climate change causes earthquakes.