Conservatives gear up for Supreme Court fight
Republicans had difficulty getting sea legs when Supreme Court justice David Souter announced 3 weeks ago he was retiring. But they may – just may – be abandoning the frustrating cordiality not returned to them on SC nominees. Reported the Huffington Post May 18:
The rationale is gradually being put in place for Republicans to mount a filibuster of Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
On Sunday, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions, suggested that the country had moved to a place “in which there is not as much deference”… given to the President’s Supreme Court nominees as in the past. Earlier, he refused to “rule out” using a filibuster.
Former Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie wrote in the Washington Post, May 20…
In 1993 and ’94, Republicans voted overwhelmingly to confirm Clinton’s nominees on the long-held premise that presidential elections have consequences, and one of the most important of them is a president’s prerogative to fill Supreme Court vacancies….
In 2005, Senate Democrats – notably then-Sens. Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton – argued for a different standard, one based on how they thought the nominee might rule on important cases in the future. On these grounds, all 3 opposed both Roberts and Alito….
In leading the White House efforts to confirm Roberts and serving as a “sherpa” for Alito’s confirmation, I argued strongly along with many Senate Republicans that Democrats would be mistaken to change the historic standard for confirmation to the nation’s highest court. Since they did, however, those same Senate Republicans would be mistaken if they didn’t apply that same standard to President Obama’s nominee.
Republicans cannot accept the premise that it’s okay for liberals to vote against Supreme Court nominees who believe in a strict constructionist judicial philosophy but not okay for conservatives to vote against those who embrace empathetic activism on the bench.…
The Judicial Confirmation Network has composed ads targeting Obama’s suspected frontrunners. You can have a bit of fun and vote on JCN’s site on which of these is the worst liberal activist.
So far Sotomayor is winning, but I’m partial to Diane Wood, who defied the very body to which she aspires by refusing – not once, which is bad enough, but incredibly twice – to drop the NOW vs Scheidler case.
Elena Kagan…
Sonia Sotomayor…
Diane Wood…
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
If the right or Constitutional thing to do is to allow the president the prerogative to appoint someone of his own judicial philosophy, then it doesn’t seem that Senate Republicans would be right to stray from that approach (as Gillespie suggests), even though the Democrats did it during the Bush years.
If, on the other hand, the Senate ought to take a nominee’s judicial philosophy into consideration (along with experience, qualifications, etc.) when judging his merits, then Republicans ought to do it just as the Democrats did, and strongly oppose any Obama nominee that subscribes to a liberal activist philosophy.
What’s the correct approach for the Senate to take? I’m inclined to favor the latter, as the notion of interpreting a document according to its original text and meaning is so fundamental that not doing so seems to be a radical, disqualifying position for a judge to take. But is there a Constitutional reason for the Senate not to take judicial philosophy into account?
Article 2, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution provides:
“He [the president]…shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint…Judges of the supreme Court,…”
The Federalists papers may give greater illumination to the subject, but it is clear from the text of the Constitution that ‘advice and consent’ is intended to provide ‘checks and balances’ and ‘separation of powers’ to the polictical system.
It is the Senate’s responsibility to scrtuinize nominees to the SCOTUS. The framers did not intend the Senate to be a rubber stamp for president’s nominees. All fifty members of the Senate vote on the nominees.
It seems odd to me that the Senate would give unfettered deference to a nominee simply because the president nominated him/her.
The Senate has a responsibility, both to the constitution and to the people, to thoroughly examine a nominee’s fitness for the SCOTUS.
After all, as one supreme court justice put it, ‘the constitution is what we say it is.’
That is too much power to be allocated to one man without some kind of public and transparent oversight in the process that determines who is appointed for life to sit on that august bench.
yor bro ken
If these wimp Republicans don’t start fighting Obama let’s kick them all out.
Remember “Yes we can”———— fill in the blanks… Destroy America, kill more children, put more people in the unemployment line, rid our nation of God, ruin the reputation of our soldiers, start rolling the ball into another 911 attack. Oh yes HE can! Wake up America! Obama was the wrong “choice” for this country!
It just never ever ends with this guy, does it? These are powerful revelations about who Obama really is, as if we needed any beyond his extreme abortion views. Thanks for posting these and hopefully many will see.
On Jeopardy the other night, the final question was ‘How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the tomb of the Unknowns?’—- All three missed it —
1. How many steps does the guard take during his walk across the tomb of the Unknowns and why? 21 steps: It alludes to the twenty-one gun salute which is the highest honor given any military or foreign dignitary.
2. How long does he hesitate after his about face to begin his return walk and why? 21 seconds for the same reason as answer number 1
3. Why are his gloves wet? His gloves are moistened to prevent his losing his grip on the rifle.
4. Does he carry his rifle on the same shoulder all the time and, if not, why not? He carries the rifle on the shoulder away from the tomb. After his march across the path, he executes an about face and moves the rifle to the outside shoulder.
5. How often are the guards changed? Guards are changed every thirty minutes, twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year.
6. What are the physical traits of the guard limited to?
For a person to apply for guard duty at the tomb, he must be
between 5′ 10′ and 6′ 2′ tall and his waist size cannot exceed 30.
They must commit 2 years of life to guard the tomb, live in a barracks under the tomb, and cannot drink any alcohol on or off duty for the rest of their lives. They cannot swear in public for the
rest of their lives and cannot disgrace the uniform or the tomb in any way.
After two years, the guard is given a wreath pin that is worn on
their lapel signifying they served as guard of the tomb. There are only
400 presently worn. The guard must obey these rules for the rest of their lives or give up the wreath pin.
The shoes are specially made with very thick soles to keep the heat and cold from their feet. There are metal heel plates that extend to the ?top of the shoe in order to make the loud click as they come to a halt. There are no wrinkles, folds or lint on the uniform. Guards dress for duty in front of a full-length mirror.
The first six months of duty a guard cannot talk to anyone nor watch TV. All off duty time is spent studying the 175 notable people laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery . A guard must memorize who they are and where they are interred. Among the notables are:
President Taft,
Joe Lewis {the boxer}
Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy, the most
decorated soldier of WWII of Hollywood fame.
Every guard spends five hours a day getting his uniforms ready for
guard duty.
ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.
In 2003 as Hurricane Isabelle was approaching Washington, DC, our US Senate/House took 2 days off with anticipation of the storm. On the ABC
evening news, it was reported that because of the dangers from the hurricane, the military members assigned the duty of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier were given permission to suspend the assignment. They respectfully declined the offer, ‘No way, Sir!’
Soaked to the skin, marching in the pelting rain of a tropical storm, they said that guarding
the Tomb was not just an assignment, it was the highest honor that can be afforded to a serviceperson. The tomb has been patrolled continuously, 24/7, since 1930.
The American Soldier gave his life and his service so people like Hal, and Reality, and Bystander and Obama can kill the unborn. God help us.
Apologize to no one. Remind those of our sacrifice and don’t confuse arrogance with leadership. As Americans, let’s all look forward to the next elections – to find a President who doesn’t think we need to be ashamed:
1. The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne , France . A total of 2289 of our military dead.
We Apologize.
2. The American Cemetery at Ardennes , Belgium . A total of 5329 of our dead.
We are arrogant.
3. The American Cemetery at Brittany, France . A total of 4410 of our military dead.
Excuse us.
4. Brookwood , England American Cemetery. A total of 468 of our dead.
5. Cambridge , England . 3812 of our military dead.
6. Epinal , France American Cemetery. A total of 5525 of our Military dead.
7. Flanders Field , Belgium . A total of 368 of our military.
8. Florence , Italy . A total of 4402 of our military dead.
9. Henri-Chapelle , Belgium . A total of 7992 of our military dead.
10. Lorraine , France . A total of 10,489 of our military dead.
11. Luxembourg , Luxembourg . A total of 5076 of our military dead.
12. Meuse-Argonne. A total of 14246 of our military dead.
13. Netherlands , Netherlands . A total of 8301 of our military dead.
14. Normandy , France . A total of 9387 of our military dead.
15. Oise-Aisne , France . A total of 6012 of our military dead.
16. Rhone , France . A total of 861 of our military dead.
17. Sicily , Italy . A total of 7861 of our military dead.
18. Somme , France . A total of 1844 of our military dead.
19. St. Mihiel , France . A total of 4153 of our military dead.
20. Suresnes , France . a total of 1541 of our military dead.
IF I ADDED CORRECTLY
THE COUNT IS 104,366
Obama, how much does arugala cost?
Very interesting about the tomb of the unknowns, HisMan. Thanks for that :)
Yes. Thank you, His Man!
Madalyn Murray O’Hair (April 13, 1919 – September 29, 1995) was an American atheist. She was the founder of American Atheists and, either openly or behind the scenes, was its President for 32 years from 1963 to 1995.
She is best known for the lawsuit, Murray v. Curlett, which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling and ended the practice of daily prayer in American public schools. O’Hair later founded American Atheists[1] and became so controversial that, in 1964, Life magazine referred to her as “the most hated woman in America.”[2]
She was murdered in 1995, along with her son and granddaughter, for reasons unrelated to her public image and activism.
The woman who fought to get God out of our schools was found murdered by her own body guard. Did anyone know that she left a diary behind that read “Someone, Somewhere, Please love me”!!!!
HisMan
Great stuff, I love these facts and figures. I am former Marine, my Marine son fought with Marine 3rd LAR in the initial invasion of the Iraq war, my father served under Patton and survived Omaha Beach at Normandy, my uncle Bill survived a kamikazi hit during the Battle of Okinawa, my other uncle Bud was at Pearl Harbor when it got hit….. I, like you, do not appreciate what this disgraceful man is doing to this country’s true hero’s and precious unborns!
HisMan…
thanks again for the download on the the Guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. My son Jason and I went to see them during a torrential downpour. We were so inspired by their focus and dedication that we stood outside in a violent thunderstorm to watch the changing of the Guard. It moved both of us to tears. Nothing, absolutely nothing was going to stop them from the high honor they had worked so hard to achieve.
This current President has dishonored and betrayed that honor with his shameful apology tour to the world’s tyrants and thugs.
Posted by: kbhvac at May 22, 2009 5:28 PM
You always clamor about balance – fairness and balance. You clamor for a place at the table, and for your side to be heard. You had two justices confirmed soundly. Now it is our turn. There was little advice and consent in that process. The end result has been a stick in the mud (scalia) and a mute intellectual lightweight (Thomas). Now man up! If you are all about fairness and balance, have enough confidence in the system of justice and democracy in America to let a democratic nominee through. God knows we let enough whackjobs onto the lower courts.
I laid a wreath at the Tomb about four years ago on behalf of my Middle school, along with three other students. We learned those facts on the way there. Quite fascinating.
And so you and Jill can spout your venom. Be grateful. Your delusion help you.
Posted by: HYLA at May 22, 2009 11:20 PM
____________________________
Twisted.
There will be 4,000 abortions today in America. Had abortion never been legalized, their would be none. Thanks to you rabid pro-deathers, abortion on demand has actually caused this! Abortion has increased! I will head out to the abortion clinic this morning, and I will watch the women go in like they are picking up take out. Today is the killing day. The extermination center does surgical abortions today. *sigh*
Heather,
God bless you for your faithful service rescuing precious, innocent, defenseless, unborn children and their deceived mothers from these heinous, demonically-inspired acts.
May God have mercy on us and grant us repentence to serve Him with upright hearts.
HisMan, some friendly advice, don’t believe everything you read on the internet. (someone might even tell you Obama is a Muslim.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.tombguard.org/FAQ.html
Is it true they must commit 2 years of life to guard the Tomb, live in a barracks under the tomb, and cannot drink any alcohol on or off duty for the rest of their lives.
No, this is a false rumor. The average tour at the Tomb is about a year. There is NO set time for service there. The Sentinels live either in a barracks on Ft. Myer (the Army post located adjacent to the cemetery) or off base if they like. They do have living quarters under the steps of the amphitheater where they stay during their 24 hour shifts, but when they are off, they are off. And if they are of legal age, they may drink anything they like, except while on duty.
“There will be 4,000 abortions today in America. Had abortion never been legalized, their would be none.”
Oh my. I suppose you could argue there would be less abortions if it were illegal, but you are the first person I’ve ever heard say there would be “none.”
Posted by: Yo La Tengo at May 22, 2009 10:53 PM
ylt,
yet another glittering example of your bias toward action: Ready, fire, aim!
You have shot yourself in the foot once again.
Suggest you have someone reveiw your musings before you hit the post button.
The reason we have ‘whackjobs’ on the SCOTUS and the rest of the federal judiciary is the members of the US Senate have failed in their responsibilties to the citizens and the constitution to carefully examine nominees to the SCOTUS and the federal courts.
Following your misguided ideologically driven demands will only result in more ‘whackjobs’, not less, on the federal courts.
My definition of ‘whackjobs’ includes conservatives as well as liberals.
Would I be correct in concluding from your ‘rant’ that ‘liberal judicial activists’ nominees are excluded from your definition of ‘whackjobs’?
yor bro ken
Hal:
Does you admonition include “www.Obama.com”?
I can’t dispute your facts right now, but my guess is that the requirements changed because of the way our society has degraded. However, I think the point is that all life is precious, the lives of the unborn, the born and especially those who have given their lives in defense of our freedom. Liberals like John Kerry and Harry Reid don’t understand this.
And this too, while we may not know who is buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, God knows his or her name. And, He knows the name of each and every child including the two of your children you chose to reject and murder by abortion. And I can assure you that if you didn’t give your children names, He has.
He does not forget, He cannot forget, He will not forget and vengeance is His. It is unthinkable what a holy and living God will do, apart from repentance, to a father who aborted his own children, the children he was entrusted to protect and who really weren’t his anyway. Abortion not only turns a father into a murderer it turns him into a thief because he takes what does not belong to him.
I guess I can understand why you cannot admit that there is a God, for to do so would require you to face the horror of your sin and submit to Him for mercy. Your pride will simply not allow you to do this. Spiritual suicide is the ultimate bad hair day.
Heather:
How about all of us asking Jill to put an abortion counter on this site?
Every 28.8 seconds another baby is ripped, suctioned, poisoned, crushed, dismembered, mutilated and ripped apart by abortion.
His Man, I’m in agreement with that. I have an update. I’ve asked others to pray for abortion clinic RN, Caroline. I’ve mentioned her here once before. Today another PLfer who stands with me said that the other day Caroline was pulling into the parking lot. She looked at my friend Ted, and then at the picture of baby Malachi. She began to weep as she walked into the clinic. She’s also had an abortion, as she confessed this to our PL group one day while having a cigarette. Keep up the prayers all. God is moving!
Could Caroline’s heart and mind be changing? I hope so!
Off to Metrohealth Medical Center. BIG PL group there today! They’ve been ripping babies apart for 30 years. Sad fact is, I had my children there and never knew. This is the same hospital that saved my daughter’s life. How can one unit of the hospital preserve life, and another unit in that same hospital destroy it?
Oh my. I suppose you could argue there would be less abortions if it were illegal, but you are the first person I’ve ever heard say there would be “none.”
Posted by: Hal at May 23, 2009 8:41 AM————————————————————— Now you’re getting it! You see, there will be illegal murders today, but they come with consequences. That’s the way it should be. The only abortions that might occur would be illegal abortions, and a criminal penalty would follow. It would make people think twice before murdering their children. Abortion is murder. You can dress it up any way you like, but it’s still murder!
There are still consequences to your actions Hal. They just haven’t caught up to you yet.
Sat May 23 2009 10:32:18 ET
C-SPAN host Steve Scully broke from a meek Washington press corps with probing questions for the new president:
SCULLY: William Howard Taft served on the court after his presidency, would you have any interest in being on the Supreme Court?
OBAMA: You know, I am not sure that I could get through Senate confirmation…
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Lack of proof of natural born citizenship would not be the problem.
The constitution does not require that nominees to the SCOTUS even be ‘naturalized’ citizens of the United States.
Obama knows he is too much out of the main stream of judicial thought and temperment to be be approved by the Senate even as it is presently constituted.
yor bro ken
Hi Heather,
Another point, laws set society’s standards, they do not stop the activity.
What would it say about our society if rape were legal? As far as I’m concerned laws against rape can never be too strict, but I have no delusions about laws stopping rape.
What I find reprehensible is our society’s lenient treatment of child sex offenders. Its not like sex offenses against chilren will ever stop, but it shows the little value our society places on children when these dirtbags get a year or two in prison, then are released into a community to be “supervised”. How many children have been murdered by these slime released into the community after a year or two in prison?
We just don’t seem to equate rape with violence, just poor self control.
Mary, I agree. As far as I’m concerned, sex offenders are beyond rehab. I’d sooner lock them up and toss out the key. Let’s never forget that PP is all too happy to destroy any possibe DNA for a sex offender. Remember Lila’s undercover stunt? What in the tarnation ever happened to statutory rape? Should we ever expect anything to get better for our children as long as PP is willing to cover up rape of a child??? They have done it, and they will continue to do it.
If a 13 year old told me that a 33 year old man had just had intercourse with her, I’d be on the phone to 911. What kind of sick minded people run these abortion mills?
And FOCA will only leave the window open for more child abuse. The minor won’t have to inform her parents of any abortion. So, her parents may want to report abuse, but won’t be able to do so.
So racist Jeff Sessions climbs high on his hobby horse over this. Lol. He was in line for a district judge position because he was just too filthy of a racist McCarthyite (even for the republican party).
He thought the NAACP was “unamerican” and he referred to the ACLU as “communist inspired”.
“He said that they “forced civil rights down the throats of people.” He sealed his own fate by saying such groups could be construed as “un-American” when “they involve themselves in promoting un-American positions” in foreign policy. He is said to have made remarks that he thought the Ku Klux Klan wasn’t so bad until he found out that some of them smoked marijuana. He said these comments were made in jest. Right.”
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/05/senator-jeff-sessions-who-has-shady.html
Why is it Jill, that all your buddies seem to have secret pervert or racist past that contradicts their present desired perception.
Forgiveness and repentance are one thing, but the republicans just seem to bury their past and then feign ignorance about it. Gotta love the party of Strom Thurmond. Always the Dixiecrats!
TLT:
The Democrats invented racism.
Your comment is hilarious.
“And FOCA will only leave the window open for more child abuse. The minor won’t have to inform her parents of any abortion. So, her parents may want to report abuse, but won’t be able to do so.”
I just had a thought. Let’s assume FOCA is not law. What if a law was passed saying that insurance companies had to receive a copy of the completed parental notification form for a minor’s abortion, before the insurance company could give it’s “OK” to cover the abortion. Has there been any legislation like this introduced in any states?
YLT 7:23PM
Well you must really have a problem with longtime Democrat senator Robert Byrd, ex klansman and klan recruiter who used the term “white n—–” on television.
Oh, not to mention he filibustered both the civil and voting rights acts of 1964 and 1965.
BTW, the KKK was founded as the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.
Also the segregationist Dixiecrats were the state’s rights Democrat Party. They split from the Democrat Party in the mid twentieth centurty.
Posted by: Mary at May 23, 2009 9:06 PM
Byrd has apologized time and time again, and has volunteered that he would keep apologizing for the rest of his life. He has dignity enough to be ashamed of his words. This shame is vastly dissimilar to callous chauvinism of the right.
Furthermore your history is mistaken, the Dixiecrats split from the Democratic Party over issues of “States Rights”(when Strom Thurmond ran Dixiecrat on their segregationist ticket), he later reverted to being a plain old racist republican.
It was the republicans that fought the integration of the US Armed Forces. They continue this fight to this day. You may recall that no less than David Duke, Grand Wizard of the KKK ran as a Republican (Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council infamy ) used Duke’s phone-bank records to solicit funds for his Louisana legislative campaign.
HisMan 8:13PM
Anti lynching legislation was strongly supported by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt but her husband, President Franklin Roosevelt would not give his moral backing to it, nor would the Democrat majority in the House and Senate support it and the legislation died as a result.
Also, southern segregation was instituted by Democrats, who controlled the Jim Crow south.
George (“segregation forever”) Wallace, Lester Maddox, and Police Chief Bull Connor, notorious for turning fire hoses and attack dogs on black civil rights demonstrators, were all Democrats.
Believe me HisMan, I cannot help but wonder at the blind devotion black Americans give the Democrats.
YLT,
Do you know if Byrd ever apologized for using the term “white n—–” on national TV or filibustering civil and voting rights legislation?
What callous chauvinism of the right are you referring to?
The term Dixiecrat is a combination of southern and Democrat. These were still Democrats.
On what do you base your assertion Republicans are racist? If it wasn’t for Republicans helping Lyndon Johnson pass civil and voting rights legislation that Democrats, Byrd included, were filibustering, black Americans would have spent much more time at the back of the bus and away from the voting booth.
The armed forces were intergrated by an executive order by Democrat President Harry Truman. The last all black unit was not abolished until 1954, under Republican President Eisenhower. How do the Republicans fights integration of the armed forces to this day?
YTL, please google David Duke. He was originally a Democrat until 1988. He ran as a Republican in a special election, though his Republican primary opponent was endorsed by both Reagan and Bush, and won a two year term in the Lousiana House.
He would continue to be repudiated by the Republican Party and lost the gubernatorial election as a result.
Mary:
YLT has been vetted again.
Maybe when she realizes what she believes about abortion is a lie she’ll do an about face.
re: Mary at May 23, 2009 10:14 PM
When George Bush runs a “willie Horton” race baiting ad in the 1988, I have proof that the republican party is the party of racists.
When senile old Ronnie Reagan gives his speech at Philadelphia Mississippi (The town where vote-drive workers were lynched in the 60’s) on August 3, 1980 where he says : “I believe in states’ rights … I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment.” He went on to promise to “restore to states and local governments the power that properly belongs to them”.
You are playing deaf dumb, blind and stupid if you tell me that “state’s rights” and the states rights mantra of the republican party, suddenly mean something different simply because the people saying it want you to believe it means something different. I’m sorry, the sorry track record for republican transparency leaves me with little feeling of goodwill or trust for their words. I guess they’ll have to earn it the old-fashioned way – by being honest about their record (rather than passing the buck (and saying that other people do it so it’s okay for you) as you have done throughout your conversations with me.
When you sin, do you tell God “hey, she did it too!!! “, or are you actually repentant? I somehow suspect the former.
Mary:
YLT has been vetted again.
Maybe when she realizes what she believes about abortion is a lie she’ll do an about face.
Posted by: HisMan at May 24, 2009 12:43 AM
Hey HisMan – Having interacted with you for sometime, I’ve long ago disavowed myself of the notion that you are a Christian based on your interactions with me.
If I am that intelligent based merely on online interactions, how sad is it that you can’t remember that I’m a guy and not a girl? It’s a pretty simple thing to detect if you read posts before traipsing down the page to drop off another load of B.S. .
YLT, your sex is irrelevant. You want to talk about racism? GOOGLE MARGARET SANGER!!!!!
“Could Caroline’s heart and mind be changing? I hope so!”
Heather, I bet it is. Great work.
YLT 1:12am
The Willie Horton ad was about the incompetence and arrogance of Governor and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in vetoing a bill ending furlough to first degree murderers. Horton did in fact commit the crime of torture/rape while on furlough. This was hardly a racial issue though of course it was turned into one.
Reagan’s speech in Philadelphia, MS was racist? Please give me a direct racist quote. Vote workers were lynched? Well thank the Democrats who opposed anti-lynching legislation that Republicans supported. Also, thank the Democrats for the segregation. For that matter, thank the Democrats for depriving black citizens of the vote to begin with!
BTW, didn’t the governor of Texas recently discusses seceding because the gov’t is exercising too much power over the states? I believe Arkansas was another state with the same complaint.
States rights does not equal racism YLT.
Again I ask, how is the Republican Party racist?
So far, you are just grabbing at straws.
Heather 1:59am
Great post! By all means, YLT should google Sanger as well as visit the website http://www.blackgenocide.org.
YLT,
While you’re thanking Democrats for instituting segregation and depriving black citizens of the vote to begin with, thank the Republicans who helped President Lyndon Johnson pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting rights Act of 1965 despite Democrat efforts to filibuster.
YLT, your sex is irrelevant. You want to talk about racism? GOOGLE MARGARET SANGER!!!!!
Posted by: heather at May 24, 2009 1:59 AM
You trot out Marge Sanger like a prize calf, if only to deny the racism within yourself. Within modern medicine there has always been racists, sexists and homophobes. Does that mean that the entirety of medicine is racist,sexist or homophobic? Nope.
The federal government allowed black men with syphilis to go untreated long after the invention of penicillin. Does this make the CDC racist to the core? Nope.
The tactics of guilt by association are commonly practiced by those who cannot comprehend the nuances of humanity. Painting in broad strokes is fine if you’re covering a house, but describing people in detail is best done with precise language.
re: Mary at May 24, 2009 6:46 AM
– Ive never been a fan of blue dog democrats, most liberals are not.
hahaha, me racist? I don’t think so. It’s odd, but the abortion clinics in my city are right in the middle of the inner city. That’s right YLT, African American neighborhoods. 2 to choose from on the same street. Preterm and The Center For Women’s Health. Now, who is the racist?
YLT, haven’t you ever researched Margaret Sanger? Please, don’t remain ignorant!
YLT,
You can only whip a dead horse so long before it really starts to raise a stink.
All that stuff occurred a long time ago.
You really need to get over it.
(sarcastic condescending patronistic ridicule intended. I learned it from the ‘left’.)
The so called ‘progressive’ democrats of today are more bigoted than their ‘blue dog predecessors’ ever were.
yor bro ken
ps: I can see how HISMan could mistake you for a woman. Your writings are rife with feminista ideology.
YLT, I don’t believe you’re a man at all.
YLT:
Now that I understand you are a male, I’ll attempt to treat you like a man.
It’s going to be difficult though because your posts are so feminine.
YLT:
How many of your friends are of a different race than you?
Be honest.
Posted by: Mary at May 24, 2009 6:05 AM
The Willie Horton ad was about the incompetence and arrogance of Governor and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis in vetoing a bill ending furlough to first degree murderers. Horton did in fact commit the crime of torture/rape while on furlough. This was hardly a racial issue though of course it was turned into one.
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Mary,
It was not the Willie Horton controversy alone that sunk Dukakis.
When Dukakis was asked if he would be in favor of a life sentence or execution for a man convicted of raping Dukakis’ wife, the liberal governor answered, “No.”
That moment of liberal sophisty probably cost him his own wife’s vote.
Rapists and terrorists everywhere roled on the floor of their jail cells laughing out loud.
Then there was that Beetel Bailey photo of Dukakis with WWII army helment on head peering meekly from of the hatch of tank like a scared mouse waiting nervously til the coast was clear.
yor bro ken
Ken,
How right you are. Thanks for the reminder.
re : kbhvac at May 24, 2009 3:49 PM
Do you pray with that mouth?
re: HisMan at May 24, 2009 7:40 PM
huh?
re: heather at May 24, 2009 1:09 PM
Afrrican Americans have the right to health care as much as anyone else. There are two within walking distance from my house as well… so what?
YLT, no. You don’t get it. I am a white woman. I grew up in the suburbs. They didn’t put abortion clinics in my neighborhood. They put them in the inner city. Smack dab in the middle of the black neighborhoods.
And YLT, Abortion is not healthcare!
YLT:
Answer the question.
How many of your friends are of a different race than you? I suppose not many.
I have probably 300 to 400 black friends. I grew up in a black, tougher than nails, NY black neighborhood.
Go preach your hypocrisy somewhere else.
HisMan,
Doesn’t it just make you laugh that nowadays we have “experts” on diversity and multiculturalism?
They honestly think this is something new.
Before there was even a civil rights movement my neighborhood and school consisted of black, white, Christian, Jewish, Arab, Israeli, European immigrants, and hispanics, to name a few. I remember the black man on the corner who couldn’t sit on his front porch without every kid of every color in the neighborhood piling on his porch to visit him.
How did we manage to live together and talk to each other without the advise and guidance of these diversity geniuses? Easy. Nobody made an issue of our differences. You read that right.
We never heard of diversity or multiculturalism.
Just don’t make an issue of people’s differences in the first place and maybe no one will care! Wow. Sound simple or what.
Maybe now “experts” on diversity will do something really useful, like get real jobs.
Heather 8:34am
Good point. You will notice that those who howled for abortion for poor and/or minority women are neither poor and/or minority women.
However, being financially secure and white, they are best able to judge what is best for poor and/or minority women.
Posted by: heather at May 26, 2009 8:34 AM
I live in the suburbs.. we have abortion clinics all over the place. Simply because they don’t exist where you are, doesnt mean they don’t exist in other places similar to where you live.
Remember, your experience is not the totality of the world’s experience.
Posted by: HisMan at May 26, 2009 4:23 PM
Simply because you know 400 black people does not make them your friends. I suspect given the way you treat people here, that their relationship to you is more out of toleration than out of genuine admiration.
Furthermore, just as with people on facebook that have 500 “friends”, it is not the number of friends that you have but the quality of relationships. It’s kinda sad that you see black people as a commodity such that you rack up their “friendship” as some sort of twisted currency to flaunt in front of other people. Most people just stick to being nice, and not making a big deal about it. I’m sorry you think you have something to prove. In the end it has really proven nothing more than your own insecurity about your attitudes and your behavior towards others.
YLT, you are bringing up race. I’m not sure if you’re African American or not. However, the abortion industry targets the black race! I used to think that white women had more abortions. Not so. Black women are killing their children at an alarming rate!! Pleas go to the sites that Mary suggested. Blackgenocide.com. Also, try Klanned Parenthood. Above all, google Margaret Sanger.
Margaret Higgins Sanger Slee (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). Although she initially met with opposition, Sanger gradually won some support for getting women access to contraception. In her drive to promote contraception and negative eugenics, Sanger remains a controversial figure.
1915, Sanger visited a Dutch birth control clinic in which she became convinced that a diaphragm was actually a more effective means of contraception than the suppositories and douches that she had already been distributing back in the United States.[5] This realization began the slow introduction of the diaphragm to the United States due to Sanger later illegally smuggling them into the country.[5]
In 1916, Sanger published What Every Girl Should Know, which was later widely distributed as one of the E. Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Books.” It provided information about such topics as menstruation and sexuality in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by What Every Mother Should Know. She also launched the monthly periodical The Birth Control Review and Birth Control News and contributed articles on health to the Socialist Party paper, The Call.
On October 16, 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic at 46 Amboy St. in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, the first of its kind in the United States. It was raided nine days later by the police. She served 30 days in prison. An initial appeal was rejected but in 1918 an opinion written by Judge Frederick E. Crane of the New York Court of Appeals allowed doctors to prescribe contraception.
Sanger founded the American Birth Control League (ABCL) in 1921 with Lothrop Stoddard and C. C. Little. In 1922, she traveled to Japan to work with Japanese feminist Kato Shidzue promoting birth control; over the next several years, she would return another six times for this purpose. In this year she married her second husband, the oil tycoon, James Noah H. Slee.
In 1923, under the auspices of the ABCL, she established the Clinical Research Bureau (CRB). Sanger eventually found a loophole in the system when she had learned that physicians were exempt from the law that prohibited the distribution of contraceptive information to women when prescribed for medical reasons.[5] With the help of her wealthy supporters, Sanger was finally able to open the first legal birth control clinic that was staffed entirely by female doctors and social workers. It was the first legal birth control clinic in the US (renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in 1940). It received crucial grants from John D. Rockefeller, Jr.’s Bureau of Social Hygiene from 1924 onwards, which were made anonymously to avoid public exposure of the Rockefeller name to her agenda. The family also consistently supported her ongoing efforts in regard to population control.[9]
Also in 1923, she formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control and served as its president until its dissolution in 1937 after birth control, under medical supervision, was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in Geneva.
Between 1921 and 1926, Sanger received over a million letters from mothers requesting information on birth control.[citation needed] From 1916 on, she lectured “in many places—halls, churches, women’s clubs, homes, theaters” to “many types of audiences—cotton workers, churchmen, liberals, Socialists, scientists, clubmen, and fashionable, philanthropically minded women.”[10]
In 1926, Sanger even gave a lecture on birth control to the women’s auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, New Jersey.[11] She described it as “one of the weirdest experiences I had in lecturing,” and added that she had to use only “the most elementary terms, as though I were trying to make children understand.”[11] Sanger’s talk was well-received by the group and as a result “a dozen invitations to similar groups were proffered.”[11]
In 1928, Sanger resigned as the president of the ABCL, severing all legal ties, and took full control of the CRB, renaming it the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau[12]. Two years later, she became president of the Birth Control International Information Center. In January 1932, she addressed the New History Society, an organization founded by Mirza Ahmad Sohrab and Julie Chanler; this address would later become the basis for an article entitled A Plan for Peace.[13] In 1937, Sanger became chairperson of the Birth Control Council of America and launched two publications, The Birth Control Review and The Birth Control News. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America, which included a supervisory role with the Negro Project, alongside Mary Lasker and Clarence Gamble. [14]. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federation; at the time, the largest private international “family planning” organization.
In the early 1960s, Sanger promoted the use of the newly available birth control pill. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish clinics.
Sanger died in 1966 in Tucson, Arizona, eight days shy of her 87th birthday and only a few months after the Griswold v. Connecticut decision, which legalized birth control for married couples in the US, the apex of her 50-year agenda.
Sanger’s books include Woman and the New Race (1920), The Pivot of Civilization (1922), Happiness in Marriage (1926), My Fight For Birth Control (1931), and an autobiography (1938).
The book, “Motherhood in Bondage”, is a large compilation of actual letters that were written to Margaret Sanger in desperation by thousands of women who were begging to be given information on how they could prevent unwanted pregnancies for a vast number of different reasons.[15] Many women were simply too young, too unhealthy, or too poor to take care of a child. Other women were in abusive relationships or already had too many children to care for.
Sanger remains a controversial figure. While she is widely credited as a leader of the modern birth control movement, and remains an iconic figure for the American reproductive rights movements, pro-life groups condemn Sanger’s views, attributing her efforts to promote birth control to a desire to “purify” the human race through eugenics, and even to eliminate minority races by placing birth control clinics in minority neighborhoods.[33] Despite allegations of racism, Sanger’s work with minorities earned the respect of civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr.[34] In their biographical article about Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood notes:
In 1930, Sanger opened a family planning clinic in Harlem that sought to enlist support for contraceptive use and to bring the benefits of family planning to women who were denied access to their city’s health and social services. Staffed by a black physician and black social worker, the clinic was endorsed by The Amsterdam News (the powerful local newspaper), the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the Urban League, and the black community’s elder statesman, W.E.B. DuBois.[35]
In 1957, the American Humanist Association named her Humanist of the Year.
A residential building is named after her on the Stony Brook University campus.
Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in America. 78% of their clinics are in minority communities. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but 35% of the abortions in America. Are we being targeted? Isn’t that genocide? We are the only minority in America that is on the decline in population. If the current trend continues, by 2038 the black vote will be insignificant. Did you know that the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was a devout racist who created the Negro Project designed to sterilize unknowing black women and others she deemed as undesirables of society? The founder of Planned Parenthood said, “Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.” Is her vision being fulfilled today?
YLT, these posts are for you.
YLT:
So you have no black friends?
re: HisMan at May 26, 2009 10:30 PM
yes, but i’m about quality of friends not quantity. I’ve never had a ton of friends because I value the depth of a relationship. That and the fact that I’m comfortable enough in my skin to be alone sometimes…
re: heather at May 26, 2009 9:34 PM
Wow. You really have a lot of time on your hands. You’re like a one person junk message writer. I’m flattered by your wrath :)
re: heather at May 26, 2009 9:16 PM
I suppose so, yes. But other health care providers also market to african americans. I think African Americans, and all Americans deserve access to every type of health care.
YLT, they are facts. Not rants.
re: heather at May 28, 2009 5:02 AM
I dunno. When someone writes more than one waaay too long message, it just sounds like a rant and I tune out. If you’re going to write something, have a point, make it well, and be done. More is not more convincing. Just more desperate.
YLT, I doubt you would have looked up Sanger anyway, so I posted it for you. Call it a rant if you like. I’m not debating this one anymore.