carol | July 30, 2009
13 million abortions in China each year: report
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE56T0S020090730?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews&rpc=22&sp=true
“Some 13 million abortions are carried out in China each year.”
“There are many other abortions performed in unregistered clinics.”
“China also sells about 10 million abortion pills a year.”
carol | July 29, 2009
Pope: ‘Guardian angel’ did not stop accident
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99O4M380&show_article=1
“‘Unfortunately, my own guardian angel did not prevent my injury, certainly following superior orders,’ Benedict said.”
“‘Perhaps the Lord wanted to teach me more patience and humility, give me more time for prayer and meditation,’ the pope added.”
carol | July 29, 2009
After A Government Health Care Takeover
carol | July 27, 2009
Brit Hume on Palin’s Future (Foxnews July 27 2009)
Brit Hume about Sarah Palin: “She’s such a spectacular celebrity.”
Rush on Gov Palin’s Farewell Address July 27, 2009
Jane Hampton Cook on Cavuto: Palin Can Pull Off a Reagan 7/27/09
Hat Tip: http://www.conservatives4palin.com/
Edited on July 28, 2009 to add:
Frank Luntz on Hannity Reacts to Palin Farewell Speech (Foxnews July 27 2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foXi34pGctI
carol | July 26, 2009
Sarah Palin To The Media: “Quit Makin’ Things Up!”
Hat Tip: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/
Sarah Palin Farewell Address (1/2) – 7.26.09
Sarah Palin Farewell Address (2/2) – 7.26.09
Hat Tip: http://www.conservatives4palin.com/
carol | July 26, 2009
Hat Tip: http://mommylife.net/
carol | July 25, 2009
Saudi girl crowned Miss Moral Beauty
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hSVJkDYazbgSgUzPaC98j4zIBN4A
“In segregated Saudi Arabia, where women can not mix with unrelated men, and must appear in public completely covered — even in photographs.”
Hat Tip: The Bottom Ten Contestants Were Flogged
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/011888.html
carol | July 25, 2009
So You Think You Know Universal Health Care
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/011889.html
“Can you name a friend, family member, or Canadian politician who has traveled to the US for medical treatment in the past 10 years?”
Uh, yeah. Click on link for poll results.
carol | July 25, 2009
Sarah Palin’s Farewell Picnic in Wasilla
Ahhhh…. Love her choice of reading material… Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
carol | July 25, 2009
I rarely remember being in an office of a Canadian doctor/dentist/eye doctor/etc. without this leftist magazine sitting there waiting to be browsed by patient after patient. I would NEVER buy it myself.
Maclean’s helps Canada rid itself of those thorny liberal pests: children
http://www.proudtobecanadian.ca/index/weblog/17497/
“Our ample 100,000+ yearly taxpayer-paid abortions in this country aren’t enough. So as if to ensure that they cover every single liberal-left-wing talking point, Canada’s pretend “news” magazine, Maclean’s, this week loudly provides Canadians with yet another set of arguments for, ultimately, one way or other, not having kids.”
“Just what Canada needs. Fulfilling every liberal-left and environmental extremist nutball dream come true, Maclean’s seems to thrive in appeasing the left, and driving Canada as we know it off a cliff…”
carol | July 25, 2009
Loved Rush’s comments about abortion, Sarah Palin, GOP, Colin Powell, 3rd Party, etc.
‘Obama Must Fail’
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=7316152&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/ontherecord/
Battle for the GOP’s Soul
http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=7316152&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/ontherecord/
Part 1 here:
http://parentingfreedom.com/2009/07/24/rush-limbaugh-on-the-record-with-greta-july-23-2009/
carol | July 24, 2009
Lawmakers Confirm House Health Care Bill Promotes Euthanasia Among Elderly
http://www.lifenews.com/bio2896.html
“Two Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are confirming reports that the health care restructuring bill the House is currently considering promotes euthanasia…”
“Section 1233 of the House-drafted legislation encourages health care providers to provide their Medicare patients with counseling on ‘the use of artificially administered nutrition and hydration’ and other end of life treatments.”
“That section ‘may place seniors in situations where they feel pressured to sign end of life directives they would not otherwise sign…’”
“‘The message is clear: government can save money by encouraging old people to die a little sooner than they otherwise would. Instead of being regarded with reverence, and cherished, human life is subject in this view to a utilitarian cost-benefit calculus and can be sacrificed to serve fiscal policy and the sacred imperative of trimming a budget…”
Edited to add:
Growing controversy over euthanasia aspect of healthcare plan
http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2009/08/end-of-life_car.html#more
carol | July 24, 2009
[VIDEO] I Don’t Understand the Question! – Danny Silk [discussing pre-marital sex/pregnancy]
A powerful story on what happens when a culture of honor meets head to head with sin in the church.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1210087652765&ref=nf
Love the problem-solving, punishment-free approach.
carol | July 24, 2009
I teach my children that there are only THREE ways to deal with a problem with something/someone.
1. To flee
2. To fight
3. To problem solve
carol | July 24, 2009
Earlier today I was studying Adolf Hitler and corporal punishment, and then I came across this unbelievable news article about a similiar mentality in North Korea. I wonder who will protest when we have the same attitude toward disabled children on this side of the world. 90%+ of unborn babies diagnosed with disabilities are aborted in North America. “Not good enough, so let’s kill them.”
NKorea ‘Tests Weapons on Children’
http://www.military.com/news/article/nkorea-tests-weapons-on-children.html?col=1186032310810
“But among the accounts they carried with them is one of the most shocking yet to emerge — namely the use of humans, specifically mentally or physically handicapped children, to test North Korea’s biological and chemical weapons.”
“‘If you are born mentally or physically deficient, says Im, the government says your best contribution to society… is as a guinea pig for biological and chemical weapons testing…’”
“The former military captain says it was in the early 1990s, that he watched his then commander wrestle with giving up his 12-year-old daughter who was mentally ill.”
“The commander, he says, initially resisted, but after mounting pressure from his military superiors, he gave in.”
“Im watched as the girl was taken away. She was never seen again…”
“‘Poisonous gas was injected in,’ Im says. ‘He watched doctors time how long it took for them to die.’”
Hat Tip: NoKo testing bio-chem weapons on disabled children
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/07/24/noko-testing-bio-chem-weapons-on-disabled-children/
carol | July 24, 2009
I encourage you to read Philip Greven’s book, Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse
Here are some quotes from his section on Melancholy and Depression:
“For many people, buried anger becomes the basic source of aggression against the self. The most common form this self-aggression takes…is the emotional experience of depression.” p. 130
“Punishment in childhood always has been one of the most powerful generators of depression in adulthood.” p. 130
“Depression often is a delayed response to the suppression of childhood anger that usually results from being physically hit and hurt in the act of discipline by adults whom the child loves and on whom he depends for nurturance and life itself.” p. 132
“Melancholy and depression have been persistent themes in the family history, religious experience, and emotional lives of Puritans, evangelicals, fundamentalists and Pentecostals for centuries.” p. 132
“They may have successfully thwarted their inner impulses toward self-destruction, but the experience of conversion and the new birth rarely relieved them fully of their depressive symptoms.” p. 132
“Many evangelicals, generation after generation, voiced their anxiety and depression in their diaries, letters, and autobiographies.” p. 132
“Some of the most compelling historical evidence we possess concerning the nature and history of depression comes from the religious tradition associated most directly with Calvinism and evangelical Protestantism over the past four centuries.” p. 133
By the way, I am a Calvinist.
I think the roots go back further than Protestantism, since after all, Martin Luther’s parents weren’t Protestant, and they practiced the corporal punishment tradition.
“Closely linked to the recurrent depression evident in so many individuals is the theme of buried and smoldering anger…visible in many of the most subtle studies of the life histories of Puritan, Calvinist, and evangelical individuals.” p. 133
I think the rage and anger can come out in the form of depression, etc., and also when men release this rage and anger on their wives, and parents release it on their children.
“The long-sustained persistence of melancholy and depression among twice-born Protestants is clearly no accident, since it has consistently been paralleled by the tradition of assault, coercion, and violence against children committed with the rod, the belt, the hand, and other such instruments of parental discipline.” p. 134
“Depression is often the central mood characteristic of adults whose bodies were assaulted, whose wills were broken in childhood, and whose anger was forcibly suppressed. The rage and resentment never disappear; they just take more covert and dangerous forms, dangerous to the self and potentially, to others.” p. 134
Greven’s section about people who are obsessive-compulsive was also very telling. He said, “Obsessives lack a sense of freedom in much of their lives, since they feel compelled by inner impulses and needs to think certain things and to act and feel only certain ways.” He quoted David Shapiro who said, “They mistake what they think they should want for what they actually want, what they think should be their intentions for actual intentions, ideas that they think they should believe for convictions.” That sooooooo reminds me of the evangelical community. Some people are in turmoil because what they feel, think, and want is NOT what they THINK they SHOULD feel, think, or want.
I did a little research on Christian Protestants that have suffered depression, and I was quite surprised. I can’t remember all the names right now, but Martin Luther and Francis Schaeffer come to mind.
“My mother caned me for stealing a nut until the blood came. Such strict discipline drove me to a monastery although she meant it well.” Martin Luther
“My father once whipped me so that I ran away and felt ugly toward him until he was at pains to win me back.” Martin Luther
“[At school] I was caned in a single morning fifteen times for nothing at all. I was required to decline and conjugate and hadn’t learned my lessons.” Martin Luther
“There is just one respect in which Luther appears to have been different from other youths of his time, namely in that he was extraordinarily sensitive and subject to recurrent periods of exaltation and depression of spirit. This oscillation of mood plagued him throughout his life. He testified that it began in his youth and that the depressions had been acute in the six months prior to his entry into the monastery.” Roland H. Bainton, Here I Stand p.20
“[Francis] Schaeffer’s son claims he had frequent bouts with depression and a verbally and physically abusive relationship with his wife, Edith.” (source)
carol | July 24, 2009
“My mother caned me for stealing a nut until the blood came. Such strict discipline drove me to a monastery although she meant it well.” Martin Luther
“My father once whipped me so that I ran away and felt ugly toward him until he was at pains to win me back.” Martin Luther
“[At school] I was caned in a single morning fifteen times for nothing at all. I was required to decline and conjugate and hadn’t learned my lessons.” Martin Luther
“Now observe that when that clever harlot, our natural reason… , takes a look at married life, she turns up her nose and says, ‘Alas, must I rock the baby, wash its diapers, make its bed, smell its stench, stay up nights with it, take care of it when it cries, heal its rashes and sores… ?’” Martin Luther
“What then does Christian faith say to this? It opens its eyes, looks upon all these insignificant, distasteful, and despised duties in the Spirit, and is aware that they are all adorned with divine approval as with the costliest gold and jewels. It says, O God, because I am certain that thou hast created me as a man and hast from my body begotten this child, I also know for a certainty that it meets with thy perfect pleasure. I confess to thee that I am not worthy to rock the little babe or wash its diapers, or to be entrusted with the care of the child and its mother. How is it that I, without any merit, have come to this distinction of being certain that I am serving thy creature and thy most precious will? O how gladly will I do so, though the duties should be even more insignificant and despised. Neither frost nor heat, neither drudgery nor labor, will distress or dissuade me, for I am certain that it is thus pleasing in thy sight…” Martin Luther
“God, with all his angels and creatures is smiling–not because the father is washing diapers, but because he is doing so in Christian faith.” Martin Luther
