Lunch Break: Weird signage
by LauraLoo
Two very weird signs:
1. School speed limit sign near Detroit lists 6 time zones…
2. Shame on the person who put that up!…
Children of the Light
To be honest, I had a down day yesterday. They come along once every few months.
The trigger is always different. Yesterday’s isn’t important. Part of the problem was I got a bit overwhelmed, just coming off a 10-day vacation and being behind on so much of the news.
Providentially, the Scriptures I’ve been reading this week are good antidotes for the funk I briefly entertained, and I’m back in the saddle mentally this morning. And I was also quite encouraged by today’s 40 Days for Life devotion:
Snooki is having a baby
I have different priorities now. I don’t care what anybody else thinks. As long as I know I’m ready and he’s ready.
~Jersey Shore star Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi with her boyfriend, Jionni LaValle, discussing her recently-announced pregnancy with US Magazine, March 7
Life Links 3-8-12
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- The amended Virginia ultrasound bill has been signed by Gov. Bob McDonnell. Unsurprisingly, the AParticle about the law has this mischaracterization:The measure initially had sought to mandate a vaginally invasive form of an ultrasound, triggering a national uproar that resounded across political talk shows and TV comedy shows….
Soon after the uproar, McDonnell had his party remove the requirement for an invasive exam through an amendment.
Also absent from the AP article are any facts regarding how ultrasounds are already typically done before abortions.
Lunch Break: Terry Lemke testimonial
by LauraLoo
Background on Terry Lemke as written by his sister Ann Marie:
“Terry had been so sick for 2 years he couldn’t work full time (as a contractor). His life became unbearable at times. He lost his ability to play his guitar, which he had been playing since he was 15. The night before his surgery I told him I would throw a benefit for him. He broke down and cried because he had $70.00 to his name and was on the verge of losing his home. After the surgery I suggested he play a song for everyone. He has never played in front of more than one other person before. The video is the result of the request which I believe was divine inspiration as well as the song he wrote.”
Amen and glory to God!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySm5a2OVQh4[/youtube]
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[HT: Ann Marie]
A phone call from President Obama? Conservative women not holding their breath
The fact is, “slut” is one of the nicer things I’ve been called over 20 years of public life….
Self-serving opponents argue that such attacks do not represent “respectable,” “mainstream” liberal opinion about their conservative female counterparts. But it was feminist godmother Gloria Steinem who called Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison a “female impersonator.” It was NOW leader Patricia Ireland who commanded her flock to only vote for “authentic” female political candidates….
It was Keith Olbermann, then at MSNBC and now at Al Gore’s Current TV, who wrote on Twitter that columnist S.E. Cupp was “a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does” and who called me a “mashed up bag of meat with lipstick on it.” He stands by those remarks. Olbermann has been a special guest at the White House….
A reporter asked Obama to comment on examples of liberal hate speech at Tuesday’s press conference. He whiffed, of course….
So no, we won’t get any phone calls from Mr. Civility. Acknowledging the war on conservative women would obliterate The Narrative. Enjoy the silence.
~ Michelle Malkin (pictured), Townhall.com, March 7
[Photo via conservativeamericanvet]
Maryland pro-life activists get $385,000 settlement for illegal arrests
This is great closure.
In August 2008 I reported that Maryland State Police had illegally arrested 18 pro-lifers, including two minors, who were participating in a constitutionally protected picket.
Well, the subsequent lawsuit has been settled, and hooray for our side. From the Baltimore Sun, March 6 (albeit getting the number of pro-lifers wrong):
Randall Terry, Obama spoiler? Wins 18% of the Democrat vote in Oklahoma, 15 counties
Let’s just say the November presidential election is close, perhaps as close as the 2000 election.
In such a case, Barack Obama would need every vote he can get.
Now let’s say there is a pro-life Democrat in the race, one with name recognition. You see his name, you think pro-life. And you know there are lots of pro-life Democrats out there, banished as they are to the wilderness – and pretty ticked about it.
Might not some of those pro-life Democrats decide to make a statement with their vote? Hey, here’s a voter who opposes infanticide and partial birth abortion. Here’s a voter who believes parents should be notified before their minor daughter aborts. Here’s a voter who is sick of being forced to fund abortion giant Planned Parenthood.
Well, an interesting thing happened in Oklahoma last night. Randall Terry got 18% of the Democrat primary vote for president and won 15 counties. According to the Wall Street Journal today:
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.