Lunch Break: Disappearing Chinese artist
by LauraLoo
From Beijing, China, meet hide-and-seek performance artist Liu Bolin…also known as “the invisible man.”
Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.
[HT: Harvest Bible Chapel]
by LauraLoo
From Beijing, China, meet hide-and-seek performance artist Liu Bolin…also known as “the invisible man.”
Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.
[HT: Harvest Bible Chapel]
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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.
So a brief blog post today on one of the more utilitarian reasons that I have heard for abortion/contraception – it saves money….
This sounds to me like something I heard from a colleague last year that the reason that New York’s prison population was down… because of Roe v Wade – since then, thousands of poor people have had abortions and a large number of those aborted babies would’ve committed crime and ended up in jail.
I should have suggested to him that an even better way of reducing prison population would be to kill everyone inside, but that would’ve made things awkward and I had only half-finished my drink at the time (and so no quick escape from the awkwardness).
Surely these sorts of arguments are completely beside the point when it comes to abortion. Either abortion is killing of the most innocent, in which case utilitarian arguments like this are sickening and deeply perverse, or abortion is nothing more than a medical procedure, in which case how much money it may save the state is neither here nor there… unless the state is thinking of using it as an argument for compulsory abortion as a cost saving device, a la China?
So, as with most abortion arguments, they are a smokescreen which obscure the real argument: are we killing a human being or not?
~ Marcus Roberts, Mercator Net, March 28
[Graphic via chillertv.com]
Comments (8)




Cool.
Schwartzenegger did the same thing with mud at the end of “Predator”.
I used to watch CBS almost exclusively - now I have a favorite show on almost every channel!
Hey LauraLoo, do you only get WLS / ABC radio and TV?
Hi Hans! I watch ABC7Chicago & FoxChicago for my news and American Idol
, MeTV for my oldies and MCTV channel 34 for one Christian program/sermon before I go to bed. As for radio, exclusively WLS plus a couple sermons on Sunday through WMBI (Moody). LauraLoo
http://www.moodyradiochicago.fm/rdo_main.aspx?id=44604
Hi LauraLoo!
Speaking of American Idol, how was the concert?
The concert was great! If you google “Allstate Arena, August 6 2011″ you should be able to see some of the performances that I did. The format was different than 2 years ago. In 2009, they had the countdown of how the contestants ranked. When “2″ showed up for Adam Lambert, the place went nuts. It was truly The Adam Lambert Concert. This year all the contestants except for Scotty McCreery performed the first 2 hours. Scotty finally came out and was on stage about 1/2 hour. The concert was really designed to build up for the entrance of Scotty. The shocker of the night was Stefano! Stefano excelled at making great eye contact and connecting with the audience. He also took his shirt off which made the crowd roar. (One of my friends knew in advance that it would happen while I didn’t.)
Yeah, there’s always one for the ladies: Constatine, Ace, Stefano.
Yeah – Ace and Daughtry.
And here’s the big Scotty entrance!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I68cPm9FQ8s
And I’m a huge Josh Turner fan. I knew Scotty would win right off the bat.