Archive for February, 2011

Jay Nordlinger on Abortion

Posted: February 18, 2011 by datechguy in abortion
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As a rule one should always read Jay Nordlinger but this paragraph of his latest hit me:

So I see this headline: “Fetal surgery better for kids with spine defect.” It is over this article. And I’m thinking, What the hay? Surgery on . . . what? A “meaningless blob of protoplasm”? (That was a big phrase at one time.) Some irrelevant thing within the body, perfectly abortable?

I grew up with a slogan: “A fetus in a woman’s womb has no more standing than a hamburger in her stomach.” (That was a pro-abortion slogan, in case you’re wondering.) Now they’re operating on that hamburger?

As I said, science and reality eventually prevail against the mental and lingusitic hoops people use to justify slaughtering their children.

Because if you had you might not be saying things like this:

That’s most of the plan. The rest of the plan, as Israel explains, is making life difficult for some of the pro-life Republicans who were swept into Congress last year. The theory is that voters sort of elected them by accident. And they are numerous. At this year’s March for Life, an annual rally against legal abortion, 17 newly elected members of Congress spoke, stretching the speechifying part of the event about an hour longer than scheduled.

The new members include lots of people who took over suburban districts that had been trending more liberal. The Republicans who won, in most cases, didn’t run on abortion. They got pro-life support—the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List endorsed 14 Republican congressional candidates who took over Democratic seats. But Democrats remain convinced that the new class was never smoked out.

Take Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle, R-N.Y., one of the Democrats’ favorite examples. She started in politics as a spokeswoman for Operation Rescue in the 1980s. She didn’t hide this fact, but when she began running, she said she’d “be really careful not to make this a referendum on abortion.” Her opponent, incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei, tried to make abortion an issue. He lost. And when Buerkle got to Congress she immediately became a prominent pro-life advocate. Pro-choice activists can explain all of this, or try to.

Dave Dave Dave, if you read me and the lonely conservative you would know that it was likely the linkage of Buerkle to the pro-life movement that made the difference for her.

But a large portion of NY25′s voters are in Onondaga County. I did some digging and found out that there were 147,332 Catholics in Onondaga County alone in 2000 (Sorry, I searched for hours and couldn’t find any more recent data, or a breakdown of religious affiliation of registered voters.) I’m sure enough of those Catholics are registered voters who could swing the election in Buerkle’s favor. This race hasn’t been about social issues. It’s been about the economy, the direction of our country, and the failed policies of the current administration and Congress. By running this ad Dan Maffei just gave undecided pro-life voters a reason to vote for Ann Marie Buerkle.

And as Stacy pointed out:

See? Buerkle needed a miracle to win and, by highlighting her pro-life record in the final days of the campaign, her opponent gave her that miracle. Out of more than 200,000 votes cast in NY-25, Buerkle won by 657 votes, and how many of those votes were decided on the pro-life issue?

Additionally you might notice that the polls have steadily been trending toward life for years, advances in science and medicine has changed the viability equations additionally democrats haven’t grasped the idea that killing off your own voters for two generations tends to shrink your potential voting base. Additionally the growing Latin population is heavily Catholic and not the Nancy Pelosi flavor of Catholic either.

Like all great Evils abortion will eventually fall, in the end Americans are basically decent people. Dave is betting on the wrong horse.

Update: Stacy Points out that Buerkle is going to need your financial help in the short term.

With apologies to Longfellow

Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the daylight ride of Democrats here,
On the seventeenth of Feb, in Two thousand eleven;
Hardly a tweeter now alive
Who doesn’t remembers that famous day and year.

The protesters said to their friends inside, “If the GOP calls for a vote
count the heads in that chamber to-night,
Keep a bus near the exit ramp
By the side of the steps where we setup our Amps,–
If down by One is what we see;
Then soon to a different state we’ll be,
Ready to ride to foil the plan
Through every village and farm,
For the Union folk to be up and to arm.”

When the count came and the number was known
Onto the bus the Democrats roamed,
The door it did shut and the clutch engaged,
and the waiting Greyhound its progress now made
The State police and Sgt at arms;
Not thinking the Dems would abandon so far
the job the did beg of the voters last qtr,
Through a franchise so dearly bought that they ought to
By their own acts surrender the quota.

Meanwhile, on the left ,through media and tweet
Combined with the Unions there on the street,
With classrooms abandoned and students a wanderin
As teachers threw their trash on the lawn there,
Denouncing the Hitler, the Mubarak of the west,
Who would dare with measured bill try to tread,
Upon the contracts keeping Union coffers fed.

As they climbed the stairs and the buses did roll,
An act by democrats once ‘fore foretold,
Done in Texas repeated up north,
And startled the voters and GOP force
On the somber ride did the dem senate make
Masses and moving shapes of shade,–
Keeping their profile considerably low,
To their presence, denying their foe,
Where they sent the police to listen and look down
A moment to see if they group could be found
Fore the collected members had all skipped town.

Along the highway did the bus roll,
Not heeding gas costs or prices of tolls,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That as the border to the state of Il,
The bus it rolled on with care and with skill
Creeping along now safely felt,
And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”
Did the wheels of the bus go round and go round
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely hotel the group they did fled;
For suddenly to Rockford they plan was to stay
On a shadowy hotel far far away,
Where the voters just anger could be kept at bay,–
A 3 star resort where inside they could lay
Avoiding the tide of the voters just rage.

Meanwhile, impatient the vote on their mind,
Their colleagues sent officers the runners to find
To eschew their abandonment of responsibilities clear.
That the voters had sent them to exercise here,
But though they gazed at landscape far and near,
No sign of the Senators would now appear,
And turned they without hope to the dems pols quirk;
They tried to find with eager search
But yet as the officers of the law,
Their efforts though noble. continued to fall,
Lonely and spectral and somber and still.
And lo! as their failure reached it height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
The citizen army the teaparty strong,
Determined, connected. an uncommon storm
Took ‘pon them selves to right this great wrong.

A hurry of tweets, and Facebook chatter,
A beacon to tell all what was the matter,
And beneath, the radar of the media sly
And the unions determined to hide out those guys;
That was all! The call it was sent,
The fate of a State and their franchise was met;
For borders and boundaries and a bus drivers flight,
Can not confine the electronic might.
that had sent through their village, the army of Davids,
And beneath the unions and the plan broad and deep,
The word it got out and upon them it creeped;
And under the doors of the Clock Tower Resort,
Now soft on the heels their and their clever retorts,
Is heard the tramp of the teaparty force.

It was twelve by the village clock
When they found the Senate confined in their fort.
The camera did roll and the confrontation made,
And the democrats knew, twas the end of the game,
As tea party forces confront and combine,
The dems did regroup and repeat their old ride.

And like a man caught with a lass without ‘pute,
The dems did re-board seeking alternate route.
They saw the assembled teaparty forces
Their films distributed by Breitbarts large hoards there.
So their meeting-house was then now abandoned,
In hopes of finding a refuge more random,
As if they already stood aghast
At the work that they internet foiled and did crash.

Within a few hours the word was around,
That the prodigal legislatures indeed had been found.
They heard the bleating of the union flock,
That insisted the Governor was in fact in the wrong,
But the eyes of the nation had all now did see
And tweets and blog post did public soon read.
So no one was safe, not asleep in their beds
Had the voters obligingly laid down their heads,
No quantity of spin could now re-define,
What the tea party gave and the public did find.

You know the rest. Again they did roll
In the hopes of finding a more secure hole—
How the Governor called for them to come home,
To end their embarrassing of flights as they roamed,
And honor the voters choice in November,
and to their sworn duty asked them to remember
And as the sun set all here could now ponder,
The results of the Dems and their afternoon wanders.

So as was suggested by the great Jimmie Bise;
That the Union’s last move was not very much wise
But To every voter in village and farm,—
A cry of defiance of pocketbook harm,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of post and of tweet,
It is now their judgment that history seeks,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
Will the people waken and listen to hear
Will they decide that this act will cost cowards approval?
Or let them continue with business as usual?

Update:
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Then to receive from the Blogfather an Instalanche

My congratulations to Jim Hoff

Posted: February 17, 2011 by datechguy in media
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If media matters has decided to spend George Soros’ money to attack him then he must be effective.