Planned Parenthood Sends Out Mother’s Day Fund-Raiser Emails

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With Mother’s Day coming up this weekend, Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, has a message for moms: send us more money. Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, sent out a fund-raising request this week one pro-life advocate says is grotesque.

Richards honored Mother’s Day by sharing part of an editorial her daughter wrote saying she got her pro-abortion views from her mother and grandmother, former Texas Gov. Ann Richards.

“It’s true that I have had lots of rewarding moments in my career. So did my mother,” Cecile wrote in the email LifeNews.com obtained. “But knowing that my daughter is carrying on the legacy of fighting that my mother passed to me trumps ‘em all.”

Richard couldn’t wait until the third paragraph of her Mother’s Day letter to PPFA supporters to ask them to open their wallets.

“This Mother’s Day, I’m honoring that legacy with a Planned Parenthood Federation of America Mother’s Day gift. Join me,” she wrote.

“You can help with a gift to Planned Parenthood Federation of America today in honor of your mother or daughter, and on behalf of all the women,” she added.

Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek called Richard’s exploitation of Mother’s Day for pro-abortion money-making purposes “grotesque” and said she couldn’t believe Richards would stoop to “using her dead mother and daughter as props.”

“This pathetic woman is so psychologically and emotionally invested in abortion she has no semblance of conscience left,” Stanek said. “If and when she has grandchildren, I’m sure she’ll use them too.”

It’s grotesque alright. Asking women around the Mother’s Day holiday to send them money so they can prevent other women from becoming mothers…by destroying their babies, is downright Orwellian.

Richards said passing on her pro-abortion mantra to her daughter Hannah and her younger children Lily and Daniel is “the best gift any mother can give her children.”

The mind reels…the best gift she can leave her children is the teaching that abortion is a wonderful right? “I had the right to kill you, but “chose” not to…isn’t choice neat-o?”

In the email, Richards also admitted that promoting abortion was more important to her mother than even promoting equal rights for African-Americans.

“In all of my mother’s activism — from the civil rights movement to the ERA — nothing meant more to her,” she said.

“I’m proud that, as the leader of Planned Parenthood, I get the opportunity every day to carry forward work that honors her and honors all who came before her,” Richards concluded.

“And, I’m proud that my own children carry on that legacy. That’s what it’s all about, isn’t it?”

Good lord. Planned Parenthood does all it can to deny such legacies.

Stanek said abortion advocates can leave no legacy to children and grandchildren because they’ve been responsible for the deaths of 50 million of them.

Exactly. The ghouls.

Tortured And Mutilated Dogs Being Found In KC Area Cemeteries

I first heard started hearing about this story from my high school kids over a month ago, and I immediately figured it was one of those urban myths kids like to tell. But I looked into it and saw some news reports on the case in the smaller neighborhood newspapers. I’d link to the articles I found then, but they’ve already been archived.

Eventually bigger news outlets started reporting that tortured and mutilated dogs have been getting dumped at cemeteries for the past six months. At least 10 dogs have been found at the Lee’s Summit cemetery, alone.

NBC Action News reported on 3/29:

The Sheriff’s Department said officers were close to catching a suspect and had planned a surveillance operation to nab him or her in the act, but officers said another local media outlet ran the story before they could set the surveillance.

Various breeds have been discovered, Montgomery said in a press release Saturday, and none could be connected with any known missing dog reports.

I almost posted a story on it, but decided I’d wait and see if any more dog carcasses showed up.

One just did:

One of the earlier reports I’d read included a mutilated dog carcass that had shown up in a Kansas City neighborhood, that they thought might have been connected to the Lee’s Summit ones as well.

Something very creepy and evil is afoot in my community. Dog owners need to be on high alert.

Another Radical For Obama

This one’s is a former member of Students For A Democratic Society, (the radical ’60’s group that transformed into Weatherman) and he’s the webmaster for a blog called Progressives For Obama, according to Aaron Klein at WND:

He didn’t bomb the Capitol or rob banks like his contemporaries in the Weather Underground.

But Carl Davidson, a former vice president of the Students for a Democratic Society who traveled to Cuba to meet with Fidel Castro and still praises the dictator today, is another proud radical for Barack Obama, serving faithfully as webmaster for “Progressives for Obama.”

Take a look at some of the names in the sidebar. You’ll see some familiar ones:

He joins his old SDS collaborator, Tom Hayden, who traveled with Jane Fonda to meet with Vietnamese communist leaders during the height of the Vietnam war. In fact, Fonda, too, Hayden’s ex-wife, is part of Progressives for Obama.

Like all good radicals, Davidson is enamored with Fidel Castro:

On his blog, Davidson talks about meeting Castro in 1968: “He is a remarkable man, with a photographic memory, wide knowledge and keen insights. Cuba will change after him, though, as brother Raul is already looking into the socialist market economy in China and Vietnam, but will undoubtedly make any reforms ‘in the Cuban way.’ We should all wish Fidel and Cuba well, and double our voices against the blockcade. (sic)

Davidson and Hayden take credit for launching the “Venceremos Brigade,” hundreds of young Americans who were covertly transported to Cuba to help harvest sugar cane and mingle with the communist revolutionary leadership in Havana.

I know, I know…guilt by association, again.

Obama can’t help it that every known radical, commie, and terrorist sympathizer in the country is supporting him.

Barack Obama And Voter IDs

Bad news for Democrats!: The Supreme Court has just rejected the argument that strict voter ID laws “disenfranchise” voters, thus making voter fraud more difficult.

John Fund in the WSJ today, writes:

In ruling on the constitutionality of Indiana’s voter ID law – the toughest in the nation – the Supreme Court had to deal with the claim that such laws demanded the strictest of scrutiny by courts, because they could disenfranchise voters. All nine Justices rejected that argument.

Even Justice Stephen Breyer, one of the three dissenters who would have overturned the Indiana law, wrote approvingly of the less severe ID laws of Georgia and Florida. The result is that state voter ID laws are now highly likely to pass constitutional muster.

But this case, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, also revealed a fundamental philosophical conflict between two perspectives rooted in the machine politics of Chicago. Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the decision, grew up in Hyde Park, the city neighborhood where Sen. Barack Obama – the most vociferous Congressional critic of such laws – lives now. Both men have seen how the Daley machine has governed the city for so many years, with a mix of patronage, contract favoritism and, where necessary, voter fraud.

Justice Stevens has a history (as both a lawyer, and a judge) of trying to root out corruption in state government. Apparently, Obama is quite comfortable with it:

Barack Obama has approached Chicago politics differently. He came to the city as a community organizer in the 1980s and quickly developed a name for himself as a litigator in voting cases.

In 1995, then GOP Gov. Jim Edgar refused to implement the federal “Motor Voter” law. Allowing voters to register using only a postcard and blocking the state from culling voter rolls, he argued, could invite fraud. Mr. Obama sued on behalf of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, and won. Acorn later invited Mr. Obama to help train its staff; Mr. Obama would also sit on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago, which frequently gave this group grants.

Acorn’s efforts to register voters have been scandal-prone. St. Louis, Mo., officials found that in 2006 over 1,000 addresses listed on its registrations didn’t exist. “We met twice with Acorn before their drive, but our requests completely fell by the wayside,” said Democrat Matt Potter, the city’s deputy elections director. Later, federal authorities indicted eight of the group’s local workers. One of the eight pleaded guilty last month.

Despite this record – and polls that show clear majorities of blacks and Hispanics back voter ID laws – Mr. Obama continues to back Acorn. They both joined briefs urging the Supreme Court to overturn Indiana’s law.

Last year, he put on hold the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky for a seat on the Federal Election Commission. Mr. von Spakovsky, as a Justice Department official, had supported a Georgia photo ID law.

In a letter to the Senate Rules Committee, Mr. Obama wrote that “Mr. von Spakovsky’s role in supporting the Department of Justice’s quixotic efforts to attack voter fraud raises significant questions about his ability to interpret and apply the law in a fair manner.” Of course, now an even stricter law than the one in Georgia has been upheld by the Supreme Court, removing Mr. Obama’s chief objection.

Ooooh, burrrrn.

The hold on the von Spakovsky nomination has left the Federal Election Commission with less than a quorum. As a result, the FEC can’t open new cases, hold public meetings, issue advisory opinions or approve John McCain’s receipt of public funding for the general election. Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid claims that, even without the von Spakovsky hold, filling the FEC’s vacancies will take “several months.”

Don’t anyone say Obama has been a do-nothing Senator. He’s had his little “victories”.

I can’t improve on John Fund’s conclusion:

So we have the irony of two liberal icons in sharp disagreement over yesterday’s Supreme Court decision. Justice Stevens, the real reformer, believes voter ID laws are justified to prevent fraud. Barack Obama, the faux reformer, hauls out discredited rhetoric that they disenfranchise voters.

Faux reformer indeed. Oh, and guess which player in all this, endorses Obama?

Hat tip: Lucianne

More on the Democrats and voter fraud, here.

Paultards trying to subvert the National Convention (posted by Beth)

I saw this at Digg (where else?) last week, but ignored it after burying it. It seems, though, that Paultards are quite serious about hijacking the Republican Convention. If you don’t want to see the “plan” at the Paultards’ blogs, read it here. Snip:

*The Strategy:*

The strategy therefore must be to get as many Ron Paul delegates selected to represent their states at the National Convention.

That means our delegates need to stay low-key.

Resolutions are a dead giveaway, especially when they are fought over things like opposition to the war, or abolishing the Federal Reserve and the IRS, all signature issues of Ron Paul.

So, the best plan is to shut up, move along, do what you have to do to get selected, sign the pledge to “support” McCain (it doesn’t say you promise not to abstain!) and just get in short of outright lying, of course.

If there are any ethical concerns about this supposed “stealth tactic,” think about what ethical concerns you may have if you allow McCain to become president by your inaction. [Continue reading...]

Ethics? We don’t need no stinkin’ ethics! It’s REVOLUTION! Forget about the sheeple’s votes, this is a coup!
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At least one person is fighting back. Heather Johnson of Moms4Mitt.com:

I am a Mitt fan and have a blog for his support. But I have also pledged on my blog my support for McCain as a our GOP nominee. I am trying to do my part in stopping these Ron Paul fans from overtaking the convention with their agenda nonsense and just get McCain officially nominated.

Heather is trying to just GET to the convention, but she needs help (financially) getting there. If you can drop a few shekels her way, you’ll be doing your part to shut up these asshat Paultards. Make no mistake, they are extremely well-organized (online activity and caucus results should tell you that much) and you can be sure they’ll make their presence known at the National Convention. Unless you want to see the GOP have an even more f’d up convention than it looks like the Dems will have, the Paultard kiddies must be stopped.

Ron Paul has even given tacit support to this idea (or that’s how it’ll be read by his fanatic supporters), while leaving his options open for a third party run:

“I’ll be very cautious about what I do,” he said, noting his effort to encourage his supporters to get involved with their local Republican committee.

And you know Ron Paul–he’s a stickler for the last letter of the Constitution. If it can be interpreted to allow this “loophole” that can get him nominated–or at the very least, create chaos–it’s A-OK. He’ll say this is exactly what the Constitution was designed for. (Nevermind the votes for the candidates–the votes for delegates matter more? LOL.)

Please help Heather out - I absolutely vouch for her honesty and ethics 100%. She needs help getting to the Convention, and we need to put the final nail in the Paultard coffin of crazy once and for all.

[Cross-posted]

Official Obama Blogger: Hardcore Marxist

No that is not hyperbole. Meet Sam Graham-Felsen, official Obama blogger, and writer for The Nation, and The Socialist Viewpoint.

The Socialist Viewpoint? Sounds kind of left-wing, doesn’t it? Let’s visit the ‘About Us’ page and find out more:

The Socialist Workers Organization was formed to advance the revolutionary Marxist political program in the United States. Our members are long time active participants in the socialist and labor movements. We agree with Karl Marx that society is divided into social classes whose interests are irreconcilable.

The capitalist ruling class of the United States exercises a virtual dictatorship not only over American society, but also over the entire world. This capitalist class rule is the basic cause of the poverty, wars, and the degradation of the natural environment.

We advocate workers’ power to solve the pressing problems that plague our society—homelessness, hunger, AIDS, the lack of health care for those who can’t afford it, the poor quality and lack of resources for public education and other public institutions, and the destruction of the environment.

We believe that people have the human right to freedom, justice, and sharing of all the resources available for the makings of a good life. This means the right to jobs, decent housing, food and health care, and every aspect of education, clean water, air, and earth.

Workers power is the answer!

Working people are the overwhelming majority of the population and the ruling capitalist class is only a handful. They hold a monopoly over the media and the institutions of culture that create “public opinion”—the printed and electronic mass media, as well as all public and private educational institutions. In the final analysis, however, capitalists rule by military and police force and violence.

To break the stranglehold of the capitalist minority over all of society, workers need their own political institutions. Workers and their unions need to break definitively with Democrats, Republicans, and other capitalist parties, all of which are dedicated to preserving and advancing the capitalist system of social, economic and political injustice.

Socialism, the ownership and democratic control of the means of production by the working class, and the removal of profit from the system of production, is the aim of Socialist Viewpoint, which reflects the political views of the Socialist Workers Organization. Socialism is the prerequisite for the next stage in human development that will end class oppression and exploitation for all time.

The Common Ills has much more on Graham-Felsen (what’s with the 2-part name? He’s a dude!).

What more do people need to know about Obama? Have the super-delegates figured out that he’s unelectable yet? Should we just hush up about all this and save it for later… I mean…MY GOSH!

Hat tip: Moonbattery

Update:

Oh wow, why does this not surprise me:

Real or hoax? I can’t decide.

The Communist Party USA definitely seems to like him.

State Department Forbids Use Of Words, ‘Jihad’ And ‘Jihadist’

Oh brother.

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch reports:

A reliable source has informed me that Condoleeza Rice has approved a new lexicon for State Department usage, absolutely forbidding the use of the terms “jihad” and “jihadist” by any State Department official.

The argument, of course, is the old Streusand/Guirard claim that by using the word jihad, we’re validating the jihadist claim to be waging jihad. Of course, it’s ridiculous to think that the U.S. State Department carries any validating authority within the Islamic world to determine what is Islam and what isn’t. This would be the first time that unbelievers have set the meaning of Islamic theology for Muslims.

Also, the claim is that by using the word “jihad,” we are insulting the peaceful Muslims who are waging the daily jihad of the struggle against sin…

Again with the argument that by using a word that implicates some of the more violent Muslims, we are insulting them all.

Just yesterday I was congratulating John McCain for refusing to cow under pressure from the ISNA to stop using the word ‘Islamic’ when describing Islamic terrorists:

Mr. Fareed, who is ISNA’s secretary-general, said such usages are wrong.

“I think this is just criminality, fair and square. We should just call them criminals. You want to call them terrorist criminals, fine,” he said. “But adding the word ‘Muslim’ or ‘Islamic’ certainly doesn’t help our cause as Americans. It’s counterproductive. It paints an entire community of believers, 1.2 billion in total, in a very negative way. And certainly that’s not something that we want to do.”

Michael Ledeen countered with the obvious, clear thinking rebuttal to this type of PC tripe:

“It doesn’t group the enemy under the Islamic brush stroke because there are plenty of terrorists and extremists who are not Islamic. So it’s just a way of specifying who they are.”

Of ISNA’s criticism, Mr. Ledeen said, “They’re just silly. What a silly thing to say. I talk of Marxist extremists and nationalist extremists. They just don’t want people to say there are Islamic terrorists, which there are. Too bad.”

Sadly, bureaucrats at the State Department aren’t capable of such clear thinking.

It’s true that the word, Jihad has more than one meaning, violent Jihad being just one, but the primary one. Muslihoon who wrote a series of posts about the meaning of the word ‘Jihad’, back in February put it this way:

… there are technically a number of types of jihad. However, in general and across Muslim peoples, jihad by force (“jihad bi-s-sayf”, “jihad by the sword”) is the type that is assumed by default.

By not allowing officials to use the word, ‘jihad’, the State Department is like an ostrich hiding its head in the sand. Everybody knows what it means, but they’re going to deny it and hope it goes away.

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

UPDATE:

The inimitable Nick has a different take on this:

While I am generally appalled at political correctness or anything resembling it, this could be viewed in a different light. I can see how the term “Jihadist” could be viewed by a terrorist in a positive and emboldening light. Also, against political correctness doctrine she didn’t mandate an alternative term to replace teh forbidden words as is customary in enlightened circles, leaving the budding state department snob to use their own imagination to replace it.

UPDATE (May 1st):

Robert Spencer addresses this issue in a Jihad Watch video:

Happy Anniversary Harry Reid!

Today is the one year anniversary of Harry Reid’s infamous pronouncement that the Iraq war was lost. He uttered his disgraceful words before the troop surge was even completely in place, making it look more like wishful thinking than an honest assessment. The U.S. military reported that the 28,000 troops required for the surge were not in Iraq and ready to start surge operations until June 15, 2007.

From Politico Playbook:

One year ago today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters: “[T]his war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.” The traditional one-year anniversary gift is paper (books, etc.), but the modern gift is clocks. Senators always find both useful.

Tomorrow will be the one year anniverary of Al Jazeera’s coverage of Reid’s defeatist words to the Arab world:

The US war in Iraq is lost and a further build-up of US troops in the country will not recover the situation, the senior Democrat in the US senate has said.

“This war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week,” Harry Reid, the senate Democratic majority leader, told reporters.

Reid, who held talks with George Bush on Wednesday, said he told the president that he thought the war could not be won through military force.

Only political, economic and diplomatic means could bring success, he said.

By early ‘08, evidence that the surge was successful was made clear by the media’s complete loss of interest in covering the war.

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Well wishers who would like to acknowledge Reid’s moment of shame, may do so in the comments.

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And by “well wishes” I mean this.

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Here is the video, (if your stomach can take it):

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UPDATE:

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Irony of ironies. Today is also Patriot’s Day. Jules Crittenden reminds us what true Patriots look like.*

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*Yes, I’m questioning Harry Reid’s patriotism. I most certainly am.

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It is also the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Dave in Texas commemorates at AOSHQ.

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Thanks, Jimmah!: Hamas Now Feels “Legitimate”

Sue Myrick, who is calling to have Carter’s passport revoked, says, “The international community has been trying to isolate Hamas…so they would get a message, and you know, he’s just undermining all that”.

Hamas officials agree:

Hamas officials said Wednesday that Jimmy Carter’s meetings with leaders of the Palestinian militant group will boost its legitimacy despite criticism by Israel and the U.S. government of the former president’s personal peace mission.

Carter arrived in Egypt from Israel and the Palestinian territories, where he raised Israeli anger Tuesday by embracing a Hamas official in the West Bank.

Isn’t that special?

UPDATE: (April 18):

Via Gateway Pundit:

The US House is introducing a resolution to condemn Hamas and Jimmy Carter’s undermining of US policy.

U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) sponsored the bill.

“We ought to be screaming from the rafters about the lack of judgment in the former president going to see a known terrorist,” U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), one of the bill’s original co-sponsors, told JTA. “Khaled Mashaal is the worst of the worst.”

Bloggers Under Fire Now In Canada

Mark Steyn is not alone.

Richard Warman, described by Steyn as “Canada’s most sensitive man” is now suing some of the biggest names in the Canadian blogosphere:

Kate McMillan of Small Dead Animals to Kathy Shaidle of Five Feet of Fury (or, Five Feet of Furry, as the lawsuit says on page 2), to Free Dominion, the largest conservative chat site in Canada. Warman’s goal is breathtaking in its chutzpah: he wants to muzzle the Canadian conservative Internet. It’s not just his goal – it’s the goal of the CHRC itself, and its friends at the Canadian Jewish Congress, who have stated their goal is to “tame” the Internet – or at least those voices they disagree with.

Kathy Shaidle estimates she will need $30,000 to mount her legal defense.

Another reason we should thank God every day for living in what still is a free country.

Sadly, if either of the Marxists running on the Democratic side triumph this November, that could all change.

Via: Argghhh! The Home Of Jonah’s Two Military Guys

More at:

Hot Air

Michelle Malkin

The Nose On Your Face - (Where you can see the top 9 little known facts about Richard Warman).

Did you know that Richard Warman Is so sensitive that after watching prescription drug commercials on television, he frequently comes down with at least two of the major side effects?

Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

Hat tip: The Corner

Offensive, Homoerotic Picture Of Last Supper Removed From Museum In Vienna

Surprisingly, it was a Catholic museum! The mind reels:

They knew it would be risky to exhibit a homoerotic version of Christ’s Last Supper, but curators at museum of Vienna’s Roman Catholic Cathedral weren’t ready for a barrage of angry messages and calls to be shut down.

The episode is being described as the equivalent of the Mohammad cartoons fiasco, and it is indeed identical in every way, except for the facts that it was the Catholic museum itself, that chose to host these obscene paintings, and the protests have been entirely peaceful and non threatening. Basically, a lot of people saying, “Hey! This ain’t right!” But other than that….yeah…just the same!

The Church hastily removed the main picture, “a homosexual orgy” of the Apostles as Hrdlicka describes it.

But the protest has continued, much to the surprise of the small Cathedral Museum which is nestled down a narrow street in Vienna’s historic Gothic quarter.

Surprise??? “Huh! People don’t like to see obscene depictions of their Lord and savior? Gee! We did. not. see that coming!” ….Puhleeeese!

The museum’s director defends both Hrdlicka’s work and his decision to host the artist’s controversial versions of biblical imagery in a museum tied to the Catholic Church.

“We think Hrdlicka is entitled to represent people in this carnal, drastic way,” Bernhard Boehler said in his small museum office, across the street from Vienna’s imposing St. Stephan’s Cathedral.

Nobody disputes Hrdlicka’s right to explore his sick fantasies in art. Just…how about not displaying them in a CATHOLIC MUSEUM????? Did the perverted works of a communist and atheist really seem like a good fit for a Catholic museum?

He said the museum never intended to offend people but that art should be allowed to provoke a debate.

Here’s the debate we should be having…Should the museum’s director be shit-canned over this obscene garbage, or be demoted to head janitor at the now disgraced museum? I’d vote for the latter, provided he isn’t put in charge of what goes on the bathroom walls.

“I don’t see any blasphemy here,” he said, gesturing at a Crucifixion picture showing a soldier simultaneously beating Jesus and holding his genitals. “People can imagine what they want to.”

Fair enough, fair enough. So, how about that picture of Jesus and the 12 disciples crawling all over each other at The Last Supper? Idiot!

Boehler says that picture drew particular criticism from some visitors, along with a sculpture of Jesus on the cross without a face or loincloth that some Christians found offensive.

But the most disputed work was ‘Leonardo’s Last Supper, restored by Pier Paolo Pasolini’ which showed cavorting Apostles sprawling over the dining table and masturbating each other.

Hrdlicka says he represented the men in this way because there are no women in the Da Vinci painting which inspired it. Pasolini was a controversial Italian filmmaker and writer who was murdered in the 1970s.

There were no women in the Da Vinci painting. That explains why he has Jesus and the 12 “cavorting” all over each other? Dang! Is that what guys really do when there are no women in the room?

This whole thing is the result of crass thinking, diseased imaginations, and a total failure to discern logical outcomes. Of course people would be offended by this. There is no point to it other than to offend. Spark debate? What debate? Did Jesus and his disciples have sex at The Last Supper?

Shut. Up.

The point of the Mohammad cartoons, (and Fitna) was to spark debate. Is Islam an inherently violent religion? These artists were genuinely brave to present us with these works because their lives are now danger because of them. Point well made.

The Mohammad cartoon protests escalated into violence resulting in more than 100 deaths. Protesters set fire to the Danish Embassies in Syria, Lebanon and Iran, stormed European buildings, and desecrated the Danish, Norwegian and German flags in Gaza City. A number of Muslim leaders issued death threats.

What are the Christian protesters going to do? Fast? Pray the rosary outside of the museum? Forgo bingo at St. Stephan’s Cathedral until the archbishop of Vienna has the entire display removed from the museum?

If artists and curators want to feel brave, cutting edge, and relevant, let’s see them produce something deemed offensive to Islam to spark a debate, and we’ll talk.

You can view some of the images at Vox Humanae. Good lord.

Here’s the museum website.

Protest Email here.

Fausta says:

That the Catholic hierarchy would allow such display of pornography at a Catholic museum shows that the moral compass of Europe has disintegrated to the point where even religious authorities, who are called to lead in matters of morality, can not distinguish between right and wrong.

Political correctness and moral equivalence have supplanted a moral compass. Because of that, the EUropeans have become their own worst enemies.

Agreed. The fact that the Austrian church acquiesced to this abomination is the most disheartening part of this story.

Hi Ace readers. Behave yourselves, now…

Hat tip: Geoff

Surely She Jests: Madonna Wants To Remake Casablanca Set In Iraq?

The Daily Mail is reporting:

A source at a major Hollywood studio that was recently approached by the 49-year-old star said: “She is still determined to make it in the movies.

“She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all time.”

And she plans to play the Ingrid Bergman part of Ilsa Lund.

Ingrid Bergman was a beautiful, fresh-faced new comer when she played the part of Ilsa, (which made her a star).

Madonna is what? A 50 year old, and not so fresh faced veteran of many very awful films, already. Combine that with what I’m sure would be her overwhelming temptation to throw in some leftist propaganda and we have the makings of something truly craptacular.

I can’t even imagine how horrible this would be.

A spokeswoman for Madonna refused to comment.

More here.

Hat tip: The Corner 

Babies: Punishment Or Miracles?

It appears that Barack Obama got himself into a little rhetorical trouble last weekend when he referred to unwanted babies as punishment:

Speaking about sex education at an event in Pennsylvania Saturday, Obama said, according to the Christian Broadcasting Network, that he will educate his young daughters but “if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16.”

Pro-choicers really have no idea how callous they sound, sometimes. Good lord…that’s his grand kid he’s talking about. And did he just compare an unwanted baby with an STD?

When Obama strays away from the pre-written script, he tends to run into trouble, doesn’t he?

Tommy Vietor, an Obama spokesman tried to clarify his remarks on Monday:

“What Sen. Obama said and what he believes is clear — children are ‘miracles,’ but we have a problem when so many children are having children,” Vietor said. “As Sen. Obama said on Saturday — and on many other occasions — parents have a responsibility to teach their children about values and morals to help make sure they are not treating sex casually. And while he understands the passions on both sides of this difficult issue, Sen. Obama believes we can all agree that we should be taking steps to reduce the number of teen pregnancies and abortions in this country.”

They’re “miracles” when you want them.

Punishment when you don’t.

Got it.

Here’s some additional information on Obama’s very impressive pro-abort creds.

FIA Chief Caught In “Sadomasochistic Nazi Orgy”

This story out of the UK seems to making big headlines overseas. It involves the head of of the FIA, (International Automobile Federation) Max Mosley, who has apparently beclowned himself by taking part in a “sadomasochistic Nazi orgy” with five prostitutes that reportedly involved Nazi role-playing in a “torture chamber” in Chelsea.

Formula One’s governing body is keeping its distance from sexual allegations in a British tabloid newspaper about its president, Max Mosley.

“This is a matter between Mr. Mosley and the paper in question,” an International Automobile Federation (FIA) spokesman said.

EWWWW! This makes Spitzer look like a choirboy!:

The revelations are particularly damaging because Mr Mosley’s father, Oswald, was the pre-war leader of Britain’s fascist “blackshirts” who invited Adolf Hitler to his wedding.

Mr Mosley was said to have spoken in German and brandished a leather whip as he beat the women after allowing himself to be subjected to a humiliating inspection for lice. The News of the World said that Mr Mosley paid £2,500 cash for the prostitutes’ services.

The five-hour orgy ended with “the prostitutes drinking wine while Mr Mosley, 67, recovered his composure with a cup of tea”.

Ugh.

The revelations angered Jewish groups, who called for his resignation from one of the most powerful positions in world sport.

Motor racing insiders also questioned whether his position was tenable. The FIA does not simply administer Formula One but all other motor racing championships and even holds sway over road safety organisations such as the AA and RAC.

Video here. Warning!!!: not for the faint of heart…involves a lot of bending over and being spanked.

Kind of makes our country’s sex scandals look tame in comparison.

Hat tip: Crime Scene KC

Halo GONE

Forget the “Messiah” talk. Forget talk of a “tarnished halo”. That thing is gone…kaput!

I think we can stop being intimidated by the holier than thou candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama. It turns out he is just your average, run-of-the-mill, lying, spinning, equivocating, making it up as he goes along, hypocritical, Democrat. And all the adulation from MSM hacks like Chris Matthews, and Keith Olbermann ain’t gonna hide that increasingly obvious truth.

Hypocritical:

The Reverend Wright controversy, (which the MSM has deluded itself into thinking Obama has successfully navigated past), has in fact seriously damaged his credibility with average Americans. A “post racial” person does not attend a race-baiting, demagogic church for nearly 20 years. Period. End of story.

Lying, Spinning, equivocating:

Drew at AOSHQ calls this the “audacity of bullshit”:

After telling the world he never heard any of the idiotic, racist comments Reverend Wright made and that he could not disown Wright anymore than he could disown his grandmother or the black community, Obama now says he was about to do just that.

Here’s Obama today on The View:

“Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn’t have felt comfortable staying at the church.”

So we’re to believe that Obama attended this church, and was a personal friend of reverend Wright for 20 years, but by golly….it’s a good thing the reverend retired….he was just getting ready to quit…… Does he really think we’re that stupid??? Not the bimbos on The View…not the koolaid drinkers on the left….the rest of us. What an egregious insult to our intelligence.

Average, run-of-the-mill, making it up as he goes along Democrat:

Hot Air:

Obama likes taxes except when he doesn’t:

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama went after the “We’re not paying enough taxes to the government” vote today during a television interview in New York.

First, he said the Bush tax cuts ought to die. He likes that top marginal rate of 39%. Although the non-partisan National Journal recently declared him the most liberal of the 100 senators, Obama denied being a “wild-eyed liberal,” which wasn’t what the Journal called him, but it sounds good on TV where everything moves by so quickly.

Maria Bartiromo on CNBC’s “Closing Bell” asked, “Who should pay more and who should pay less?” Predictably, the politician chose to talk about who would benefit from his higher tax plan, not who would get socked the hardest. But from his answers it sounds like the “wealthy” in his mind are those making more than $75,000.

“I would not increase taxes for middle class Americans and in fact I want to…. provide a tax cut for people who are making $75,000 a year or less,” he said. “For those folks, I want an offset on the payroll tax that would be worth as much as $1,000 for a family.

Bartiromo asked him why he thinks raising taxes in a slowing economy would be a good thing. After all, the Democrats plan to argue economics as the biggest issue this fall, blaming the Bush administration policies for a housing crisis that has investors already pulling back to safety positions. Hiking taxes in that environment would shrink investment capital even further, creating more momentum for recession. What was Obama’s response?

“Well, look,” said Obama, “there’s no doubt that anything I do is going to be premised on what the economic situation is when I take office.”

Ed Morrissey:

Obama wants it both ways. He wants the Left to believe that he will start pulling more money out of the economy for a big slate of government programs, while he wants the middle class to believe that all of these programs won’t cost them anything — and meanwhile, his options remain “open”. It sounds more like “I’m making this up as I go along.”

It’s called economic illiteracy.

More Lying:

Charles Krauthammer at NRO, has an excellent article out today about Obama’s shameless mischaracterization of McCain’s “100 years in Iraq” comment. When McCain was asked at a campaign stop in New Hampshire about possibly staying in Iraq for 50 years, John McCain interrupted:

“Make it a hundred” — then offered a precise analogy to what he envisioned: “We’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea for 50 years or so.” Lest anyone think he was talking about prolonged war-fighting rather than maintaining a presence in postwar Iraq, he explained: “That would be fine with me, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.”

And lest anyone persist in thinking he was talking about war-fighting, he told his questioner: “It’s fine with me and I hope it would be fine with you if we maintained a presence in a very volatile part of the world.”

Now it’s very clear what he was talking about, here, and it’s the reasonable, sane, position to have on our presence in Iraq. Krauthammer drives this point home very well in his article. But the Obama campaign doesn’t want to talk about foreign policy in reasonable terms. They’ve found a really cool sound-bite and they’re running with it.

“It’s seldom you get such a clean shot,” a senior Obama adviser told the Politico:

“He (McCain) says that he is willing to send our troops into another 100 years of war in Iraq” (Barack Obama, Feb. 19).

“We are bogged down in a war that John McCain now suggests might go on for another 100 years” (Obama, Feb. 26).

What date between now and the election in November will he (McCain) drop this promise of a 100-year war in Iraq?” (Chris Matthews, March 4).

Why, even a CNN anchor (Rick Sanchez) buys it: “John McCain is telling us … that we need to win even if it takes 100 years” (March 16).

As Lenin is said to have said: “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” And as this lie passes into truth, the Democrats are ready to deploy it “as the linchpin of an effort to turn McCain’s national security credentials against him,” reports David Paul Kuhn of the Politico.

Behold:

Obama….typical, shameless, liberal pol for Democrat koolaid drinkers.