Carol | January 27, 2009
In case you still watch the mainstream media:
Obama’s Million Ghost March
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mithridate-ombud/2009/01/22/obamas-million-ghost-march
Did you believe the media’s reporting of over a million people at Obama’s coronation? That would be a lie. There were about 800,000.
A few days later, the media completely ignored a crowd of 300,000 at the March for Life.
Carol | January 27, 2009
Demographic Winter: The Greatest Crisis Humanity Will Face This Century
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009_docs/DonFederRoseDinnerspeech.pdf
http://www.demographicwinter.com/index.html
The following are quotes from a speech by Don Feder:
“Worldwide, there are six million fewer children under 6 years-of-age today than there were in 1990.”
“In 1979, the average woman on this planet had 6 children. Today, the average is 2.9 children, and falling.”
“In Russia today, there are more abortions than live births.”
“Currently, in industrialized nations, 20% of the population is over 60. By mid-point in this century, the proportion of elderly in developed nations will rise to 32%. By then, these nations will have two senior citizens for every child. Schools will be turned into nursing homes. Playgrounds will become graveyards.”
“Demographic Winter is the terminal stage in the suicide of the West –the culmination of a century of evil ideas and poisonous policies. Among them:
• Abortion – As I mentioned a moment ago, worldwide, we’re killing 42 million people a year. It’s as if an invading army killed every man woman and child in Italy – then repeated the process every year.
• Contraception – For the first time in history, just under half the world’s population of childbearing age uses some form of birth control. Some of us remember when births weren’t controlled and pregnancies weren’t planned. With all of wailing about man-made Global Warming, carbon footprints and the ozone layer, wouldn’t it be ironic if what did us in wasn’t the SUV but the IUD?
• Delayed marriage. People are marrying later and later After 35, it becomes progressively harder for a woman to have children.
• The decline of marriage and the rise of cohabitation. Not surprisingly, in relationships without commitment, people have fewer children. By the way, the left’s contribution to the coming population crisis is to push the one type of “marriage” (and I use the term advisedly) that can’t conceivably produce children.
• But perhaps the most important factor is a culture (including Hollywood, the news media and academia) that tells people that children are a burden, rather than a joy; that pushes an ego-driven, live-for-the-moment ethic; a culture that tells us that contentment comes from careers, love, friendship, pets, possessions, travel, personal growth – anything and everything except family and children. It’s a culture that can look at Sarah Palin and her beautiful family and ask why she had to have 5 children and why she didn’t abort her child with Downs Syndrome?”“Speaking of falling birth rates, here’s a depressing thought: Maybe it’s God’s way of telling us that – having abused the privilege – we don’t deserve children. Deuteronomy 30:19: ‘I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live.’”
“Think about it. What could be more fair? You choose life, and you get life – including descendants. You choose death – in the form of population control, contraception, abortion, alternative lifestyles (so-called), secularism, environmentalism, consumerism and materialism – and you get death, including no descendants.”
“Once people truly understand this, perhaps they’ll stop aborting their children. Perhaps they’ll stop preventing conception. Perhaps they’ll start having large families again. Perhaps they’ll give children the love they need and deserve. If humanity is to have a future, this is where it starts.”
Carol | January 26, 2009
United States:
PELOSI SAYS BIRTH CONTROL WILL HELP ECONOMY
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpbc.htm
Japan:
Workers urged: Go home and multiply
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/26/canon.babies/index.html
Update:
Officials: Family planning money may be dropped
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5itBENNErYRQKT05EtyY6woQTQb1wD95V6IHG0
Carol | January 25, 2009
PREZ ZINGS GOP FOE IN A $TIMULATING TALK
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01232009/news/politics/prez_zings_gop_foe_in_a_timulating_talk_151572.htm
“President Obama warned Republicans on Capitol Hill today that they need to quit listening to radio king Rush Limbaugh if they want to get along with Democrats and the new administration.”
“‘You can’t just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done,’ he told top GOP leaders.”
“That wasn’t Obama’s only jab at Republicans today.”
“In an exchange with Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) about the proposal, the president shot back: ‘I won,” according to aides briefed on the meeting.”
“‘I will trump you on that.’”
Limbaugh Responds to Obama
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OTU5MjE3MmQ0NWU1Zjc1YzYyMDE1NzNmZmM2MzYxMmI=
Rush: “One more thing, Byron. Your publication and website have documented Obama’s ties to the teachings of Saul Alinksy while he was community organizing in Chicago. Here is Rule 13 of Alinksy’s Rules for Radicals:”
“‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.‘”
Rush Accuses Obama Of Utilizing Tactics of Marxist Saul Alinsky
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/01/rush-says-obama-is-using-marxist.html
“Rule 13 also worked well for democrats in dealing with Sarah Palin this past year.”
You’ll WANT to hear RUSH on Monday!
Monday-Friday 12 Noon-3PM EST
http://gateway.andohs.net/player/?sid=1057&nid=2920
Edited to add:
Carol | January 25, 2009
Vatican criticizes Obama on abortion issue
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090124/ap_on_re_eu/eu_vatican_obama_2
“Vatican officials said Saturday they were disappointed by President Barack Obama’s decision to end a ban on federal funding for international groups that perform abortions or provide information on them.”
“Monsignor Rino Fisichella, who heads the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life, urged Obama to listen to all voices in America without ‘the arrogance of those who, being in power, believe they can decide of life and death.’”
“Fisichella said in an interview published Saturday in Corriere della Sera that ‘if this is one of President Obama’s first acts, I have to say, in all due respect, that we’re heading quickly toward disappointment.’”
“Obama signed an executive order that ended the ban on Friday, reversing the policy of the Bush administration.”
“‘This deals a harsh blow not only to us Catholics but to all the people across the world who fight against the slaughter of innocents that is carried out with the abortion,’ another top official with the Academy for Life, Monsignor Elio Sgreccia, told the ANSA news agency.”
“‘Among the many good things that he could have done, Barack Obama instead chose the worst,’ he was quoted as saying Saturday.”
Barack Obama inauguration: this Emperor has no clothes, it will all end in tears
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/01/20/barack_obama_inauguration_this_emperor_has_no_clothes_it_will_all_end_in_tears
“Denouncing ‘those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents’ comes ill from a man whose flagship legislation, the Freedom of Choice Act, will impose abortion, including partial-birth abortion, on every state in the Union. It seems the era of Hope is to be inaugurated with a slaughter of the innocents.”
Carol | January 21, 2009
Newborns ‘desire to communicate’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7787450.stm
“Babies are born with a strong desire to communicate and be understood, a study has suggested.”
“She [Dr. Nagy] spent three minutes smiling, looking, talking to and touching the children, just like a mother would do.”
“She then froze her face and stopped responding and noticed that the babies looked away, became visibly distressed and many started crying.”
“When communication was restarted, the babies took some time to rebuild their trust, by turning their heads and slowly re-establishing eye contact.”
“The crying eventually stopped as the babies became engaged again.”
“‘They show eager readiness to relate, they have the skills to relate, and they protest when the other is there, but not responding to them.’”
“Dr. Nagy believes that such results may have implications for infant mental health by showing that newborns, from their first hours of life, are sensitive to disturbed communication.”
Carol | January 21, 2009
Here are a few notes about the discipline history of my own family. I will go way back, skipping the latest generations. 
In the early 1900′s, I had two sets of great-grandparents living next door to each other in the country. The families were church-going Protestants (Baptist/Presbyterian). Both couples had ten children. One family (in particular, the father) was viewed as very strict, and they practiced physical discipline, and the other set of parents “never laid a hand on them” [the children]. I admire my great-grandmother who had ten boys and did not use physical discipline (and kept her house immaculate).
Although in the earlier days (in their culture), there were beltings and wood shed switches, it seems that spanking became the style in the late forties and fifties. From my knowledge, at least some of the children from BOTH families that I mentioned, went on to practice physical discipline. I suspect the grown children were also influenced by the way their spouses had been parented.
Physical punishment was also common in the schools right up until the seventies, where I remember the strap being used. My mother recalls only one of her teachers from the fifties who did not use the strap in her class and easily kept things in perfect order. The students gave her their complete and total respect and obeyed her willingly.
I would love to ask more questions from older family members, but spanking does not make a pleasant conversation, and seriously, memories are not always accurate. When spanking occasionally comes up naturally in a conversation, it is usually joked about. I believe corporal punishment causes great shame, and I think the related pain is often forgotten because it is buried.
“Some people find the memory of [being physically punished] so unpleasant they pretend that they were trivial, even funny. You’ll notice that they smile when they describe what was done to them. It is shame, not pleasure, that makes them smile. As a protection against present pain, they disguise the memory of past feelings. In an attempt to deny or minimize the dangers of spanking, many spankers have been heard to argue, ‘Spanking is very different from child abuse,’ or ‘A little smack on the bottom never did anybody any harm.’ But they are wrong … [Most] victims of food poisoning recover with no apparent, lasting ill effects. But who needs it? The mere fact that the person is likely to survive is hardly proof that the experience is beneficial.” Jordan Riak, director, PTAVE
Carol | January 21, 2009
Daily Show – What Differences Between Bush & Obama? (VIDEO)
http://msunderestimated.com/2009/01/21/daily-show-what-differences-between-bush-obama-video/
“Tonight Jon Stewart rightly pointed out that there really are no differences when it comes to philosophy about national security, and he demonstrates it with sequential video clips, comparing Barack’s speech with past Bush speeches. I can’t tell the difference myself, and I thought as much as I watched B. Hussein Obama’s speech today.”
“Change? That’s what the dumb masses voted for, but they will just get more of the same, if Barack holds true to what he said in his speech today. It will be realized to be, after all, politics as usual. The more things change, the more they stay the same. “
Carol | January 21, 2009
“The great Protestant theologian of the last century, Karl Barth, also understood grace in the same way when it came to smacking [spanking] children. Barth taught the following:
“’Christian exhortation as such can never point in the direction of disciplinary severity.’ To raise children ‘in the discipline and instruction of the Lord, excludes provoking them to the anger, resistance, and rebellion that emerges through the ‘assertion of Law, or the execution of judgment.’ Admonitions in the book of Proverbs not to spare the rod of correction must be transformed by the duty to know and correspond in thought and deed to grace, and in that light to summon children to repentance. A mother’s and father’s training and advice are to be a ‘joyful invitation’ to their children to rejoice with them in Jesus Christ. ‘To be joyful,’ Barth explains, ‘is to expect that life will reveal itself as God’s gift of grace, that it will present and offer itself in provisional fulfilments of its meaning and intention as movement. To be joyful means to look out for opportunities for gratitude.’ The work of parents is limited by time and a receding social space in which other influences on children increasingly come into play. It is limited by the fact that parents cannot relieve their sons and daughters of personal responsibility. How much more vigorously must it be said that parents may nevertheless ‘give their children the opportunity to encounter the God who is present, operative and revealed in Jesus Christ, to know him and to learn to love and fear Him,’ and to that extent offer them a life that is joyful.”
“Additionally, let us seek after the Spirit of God because ‘if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the Law.’” Galatians 5:18
Quoted from Samuel Martin’s book, Thy Rod and Thy Staff They Comfort Me Christians and the Spanking Controversy, pg. 129, 130.
Mr. Martin’s source was William Werpehowski, essay “Reading Karl Barth on Children,” M. Bunge, The Child in Christian Thought, Eerdamns: Grand Rapids: Michigan, 2001, pgs. 399-400.
Carol | January 21, 2009
http://parentingfreedom.com/2008/04/30/example-of-grace/ (Moody)
http://parentingfreedom.com/2008/05/01/calvin-and-edwards-did-not-endorse-physical-discipline/
http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/01/21/comenius-and-children/
http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/01/21/child-discipline-from-early-ad/
http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/01/21/augustine/
http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/01/21/karl-barth-and-grace/
http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/01/21/nurturing-children-in-the-lord-by-dr-jack-fenemma/
http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/01/21/charlotte-mason-and-child-discipline/
http://parentingfreedom.com/discipline/
http://parentingfreedom.com/quotes-discipline/
