jimrin




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How to elect Barack Obama president
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fight for truth, justice, and the American way (read all 38 entries…)
What's wrong with this picture? (#5)

No, this isn’t deja vu of the previous “What’s wrong with this picture?”. What’s wrong is that these women should never have had to stand up in support for Planned Parenthood to protest the cutting of funds by the Susan G Komen Foundation.

I really didn’t pay that close attention when the Susan G Komen Foundation announced that they were cutting breast exam funds to Planned Parenthood, but the more I read about it, the more sickening it was to find out the details.

Over the past five years, the Komen organization has given Planned Parenthood health centers the funds to provide nearly 170,000 clinical breast exams to low-income and uninsured women, but as many people know, Planned Parenthood has been in the sights of the right wing because abortion is one of the many services Planned Parenthood provides to women.

Based on what I read, this seems like a premeditated ill-conceived plot to get at Planned Parenthood. First, they introduced as part of the Susan G Komen charter that funds would be blocked to any organization being investigated by any local, state, or federal authorities.

Then, Craig Stearns (Republican-Fl) launched an investigation on whether Planned Parenthood was using federal funds for abortions, which is not allowed by law except in certain emergency situations, like the life of the mother. Note that there has never been any proof of wrong-doing by Planned Parenthood, but because of this investigation, then Susan G Komen Foundation determined that they should block the funding to Planned Parenthood, even though the funds for breast exams has nothing to do with abortions.

Stearns has 20 years experience in Congress and from the referenced article “Over such a long period, his political opponents inevitably called him a number of negative things. Among them, ‘bully’ might be the easiest to print.”

It seems like a big instigator of what happened was recently resigned Susan G Komen Foundation VP Karen Handel. Who is Karen Handel? She ran unsuccessfully for governor of Georgia but lost in the Republican primary. She was endorsed by Sarah Palin.

It’s a sad day in history when women’s health is used as a pawn by people pushing their political agenda.

Note that when the announcement that Susan G Komen Foundation was cutting funds, most Republican presidential candidates supported their decision.

Only my opinion, but I think this political landscape emboldens people to push their political agenda and views upon other people. The only way this will stop if we stop emboldening these people by stop voting similar-minded people into office.

Reference:
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/who-is-behind-susan-g-komens-split-from-planned-parenthood/252327/



fight for truth, justice, and the American way (read all 38 entries…)
What's wrong with this picture? (#4)

According to Congressman John Fleming (Republican-La.), these people shouldn’t be standing behind an organization who plans to build an $8 billion “Abortionplex” to perform abortions by the wholesale…

I’m sure he would never post something as outrageous as this unless he had a source for his information. And his source was… TheOnion.com

Oh, the Onion? The satire website?

Whooops, never mind. Maybe he can claim that someone hijacked his Facebook page.

At least we now see that he knows how to use the Delete key on his Facebook page. But unfortunately for John, once posted on the Internet, it’s never truly deleted…

Reference:
http://literallyunbelievable.org/post/17153265749/how-exactly-did-you-get-elected



Keep a house and yard journal (read all 7 entries…)
February 2012
House
Feb.07Argh. Seems to be a missing $1819 as part of the refinancing… And I am the one who is missing it. Wells Fargo is researching. Hopefully they’ll come up with an answer I like.
Feb.07Water bill seems a bit high. Turning off water to upstairs toilets to see if they are at least part of the cause.
Feb.08Wells Fargo says I should be expecting a check… A check is nice.
Yard
Feb.04Weeded some in the front around the north oak tree and some in the yard between the sidewalk and the street. Raked some in the back.
Feb.05Weeded some out front, a lot more than I thought, edged, applied corn gluten.


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