Weekend question
UPDATE, 12:05p: FYI, partner Tim and I (“I” used very loosely… :) have just added a new feature, to receive an email alert if someone comments after you on a post. You’ll see the check box after the comment box. Right now it’s set on automatic. You have to uncheck not to receive the alert. Let me know if you’d prefer it the other way around.
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Given the events that have transpired this past week, what are any and all of your predictions for passage of a socialized healthcare bill?
Will it retain the Stupak/Pitts Amendment? If so, if not, will it pass?
Nov.14, 2009 7:23 am |
Weekend question |
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.
It’s going to be tricky to get it through the conference committee with Stupak-Pitts intact. But given how serious Stupak is about making sure federal money does not go to fund abortions, I think that his crew won’t vote for it if that language is softened very much. The most I can see being allowed is for them to let people purchase riders with subsidy money.
On the other hand, if DeGette is serious about her threats, then this bill is sunk either way.
This is tricky all around and the best thing is for it to go away altogether. Tort reform and purchasing insurance across state lines is the answer.
On another subject, I can see how you could purchase an insurance plan and not know that it covers elective abortions. It is not like they highlight that part of it. You have to specifically ask about it and they usually use language like therapeutic terminations.
Would that be your husband Tim? Are you now becoming pc?
Maria, haha, no. Tim runs ProLifeBlogs.com, and we developed a partnership several months ago.
Jill,
I received an email notice about a comment prior to mine (when I left the box checked). That may need some fixing.
As to your question, I’d prefer the email alert NOT be automatic. Thanks for asking.
Janet, I think you received a test message… ?? Ok on the nonautomatic alert. Thanks for letting me know. Let me hear a few more thoughts on that.
non-automatic
Ok, the 2 votes thus far are unanimous. We’re changing it now… :) We agree it feels a little spammy to set up for automatic alerts.
Oooh I love this …I’ve always wanted to have this feature here. I definitely like it non-automatic rather than automatic. Thanks Tim and Jill!
1. Given the events that have transpired this past week, what are any and all of your predictions for passage of a socialized healthcare bill?
This is not primarily about health care, but about control. Included in this bill are trojan horses and sleeper cells of secular and sectarian humanist dogma.
2. Will it retain the Stupak/Pitts Amendment? If so, if not, will it pass?
One can only hope that this monstrocity of will fail with or without Supak/Pitts.
It has been a tremendous waste of time, energy and money and a distraction from the enemy without as well as the enemies within.
yor bro ken
Thank you, Jill! It’s just that it’s one more mouse point and click for me, and I’m lazy :)
As far as the weekend question(s) goe(s), I really don’t know.
I posted this on another thread where it was off-topic, I guess, amid being lost in several of my other thoughts. So, I’ll post it here, and if anyone can give me some insight on it, it would be appreciated:
Question: Maybe I’m not understanding the Stupak ammendment fully. From what I understand, it doesn’t allow any federal funding for abortions, kindof like the Hyde ammendment. However, I have heard of many women who have abortions because of economic reasons, but I haven’t heard of any (yet) that cannot get an abortion due to economic reasons. Granted, the Stupak ammendment will not increase the number of abortions (if that’s at all possible – women who want abortions will get them, women who don’t will not), but it will not decrease them either. Are we any better off?
My humble prediction:
It will pass the Senate under the rules of reconciliation.
Reconciliation means the Stupak amendment will be stripped from the bill.
The bill goes back to the house where I pray to the Lord Almighty the pro-life Dems will feel double-crossed and totally blow the bill up and vote no.
And then we can all breathe a sigh of relief.
*crossing fingers*
“Posted by: kbhvac at November 14, 2009 1:38 PM”
What Ken said.
I would add: Members of Congress, let’s start over on health insurance reform and use common sense this time. As I’ve said before, I think gifted high-school students could write a better bill.
Wow! I was (Jessica) Lynched by the U.S. Army public relations people and the compliant lame scream media.
As Molotov Mitchell would say,”For The Record”.
It appears I was partly wrong about the description I relayed of Sgt. Kimberly Munley’s actions in the taking down of the Jew hating mass murderer U.S. Army Major Nidal Hassan last week at Fort Hood.
There was a second police officer who responded to the call ‘shots fired’. He may have fired all the shots that hit and stopped Hassan’s murderous rampage.
Hassan had already shot Officer Munley and was putting another 20 round magazine in his semi-automatic hand gun when Sr. Sgt. Mark Todd got Hassan’s attention by shouting an order for Hassan to drop his weapons. Hassan responded by turning and opening fire on Todd. Todd returned fire which it seems ‘neutralized’ (as Todd described it) Hassan.
Todd may have saved Munleys life. Hassan may have been reloading in anticipation of finishing Munley off.
Munley still acted courageously and she may have already wounded Hassan before Todd delivered the coup de grace. The two police officers acting together prevented Hassan from wounding or killing any more people.
Another news account said that potential victims were encouraging Todd to put two more rounds in Hassan to make sure he was not only down, or mostly dead, but really dead.
Sr. Sgt Todd,
I offer the same gratitude and compliments to you that I offerred to Sgt. Munley and I offer the same prayers that you too will be healed completely from the trauma done to you as a result of having to shoot a fellow human being.
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Second Officer Tells of Downing Fort Hood Shooter
JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 5:10 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 5:10 a.m.
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20091113/ZNYT02/911133007/-1/NEWS0103?Title=Second-Officer-Gives-an-Account-of-the-Shooting-at-Ft-Hood
Another officer, Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, 42, said in an interview Thursday that he fired the shots that brought down the gunman after Sergeant Munley was seriously wounded. A witness confirmed Sergeant Todd’s account.
Sergeant Todd said he was slightly in front of Sergeant Munley on the hill. “Once we took fire, she broke right and I broke left,” he said.
Sergeant Todd said he did not see Sergeant Munley get shot. He said he started to circle around the building, but then backtracked as panicked bystanders told him of the gunman’s movements.
“As it unfolded, I went a different direction and he went a different direction, and we met up in the front of the building,” he said.
Sergeant Todd said he then saw Sergeant Munley on the ground, wounded. He shouted again at the gunman to drop his weapon.
“Once I came around the front of the building, I caught his attention again, started shouting commands, and then he opened up a second time,” Sergeant Todd said. “And that’s when I returned fire, neutralized him and secured him.”
Citing the ongoing investigation, Sergeant Todd declined to give more details about the precise positions of Major Hasan, Sergeant Munley and himself during the gunfight. He also would not say how many times he shot Major Hasan with his 9 mm pistol, or what Major Hasan was doing. The whole encounter lasted only 45 seconds, he said.
Asked in the interview whether he had asked to be kept out of the limelight, Sergeant Todd said: “Initially I wanted to stay pretty low key. This is a tragic event. I don’t think the attention should be on me. The medics are the ones who saved everybody’s life.”
Sergeant Todd’s account agrees with that of a witness who was at the processing center when the shooting occurred.
The witness, however, offered a detailed account.
He said he was walking in a roadway between the main building, known as the Sportsdome, and five smaller buildings. Major Hasan was headed toward the main building, the witness said, when Sergeant Munley came around the corner of a smaller building. Major Hasan wheeled on her and shot her several times, the witness said. It was unclear whether she squeezed off a shot or not, but she fell over backward, with wounds in her legs and her wrist, the witness said.
Major Hasan then turned his back and began to shove another magazine into his pistol. He did not appear wounded, the witness said. A few seconds later, Sergeant Todd came around another corner of the same building, raised his weapon and fired several times at Major Hasan, who pitched over backward and stopped moving.
“He shot her [Munley], turned away from her and was reloading when he was shot,” said the witness, who was nearby.
On Wednesday, Sergeant Todd’s wife, Lisa, said her husband had asked the Army to protect his identity immediately after the shootings.
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I know this no more relevant to the story than officer Munley’s gender, but ‘For The Record’ it should be noted that Todd is retired from the U.S. Army and is a black/African-American/male.
Munley and Todd, GOD bless you both!
yor bro ken
Serves me right to gloat. -.-