In a sign that Obama may be willing to compromise, the president told Democrats to jettison from the package family planning funds for low-income people. Republicans have criticized the provision as an example of wasteful spending that would neither create jobs nor otherwise improve the economy.
Full article here.
In related news, I'm making pork chops for supper tonight...
Don't we want a better economy for the for a better life for the people of society? How is eliminating people a help? I don't understand how spending tax dollars on abortion overseas and on contraception is an economical stimulus. Answer is It's not.
There were 300,000 at the March for Life this year. There were so many more of us who wanted to be there. Many of us who lived too far, or were 9 months pregnant, or had families of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 children (who are being raised pro-life) to tend to at home, or husbands who had to work...How many bodies would have been there if we all could have gone.
Doesn't matter, it still wouldn't get any coverage...
Yesterday we were not giving money to organizations overseas that provided abortions, today we are - Change.Yesterday before noon the official White House site did not promote abortion, now it does - Change.
Yesterday we had a President that did not consider that the question of human life was above his paygrade, now we do - Change
Yesterday we had a President who signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, today we have a President who voted for infanticide - Change
This is all true so that makes it "Change we can believe in"...
...From whitehouse.gov* Supporting Stem Cell Research: President Obama and Vice President Biden believe that we owe it to the American public to explore the potential of stem cells to treat the millions of people suffering from debilitating and life-threatening diseases. Obama is a co-sponsor of the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007, which will allow research of human embryonic stem cells derived from embryos donated (with consent) from in vitro fertilization clinics. These embryos must be deemed in excess and created based solely for the purpose of fertility treatment.
Well in this evil they were one with Sen. McCain. No mention of human cloning though, but he did vote for clone and kill research before.
* Supports a Woman's Right to Choose: President Obama understands that abortion is a divisive issue, and respects those who disagree with him. However, he has been a consistent champion of reproductive choice and will make preserving women's rights under Roe v. Wade a priority in his Adminstration. He opposes any constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's decision in that case.
First I guess they need to raise taxes to afford a spellchecker. Once again we get "abortion is a divisive issue" however we are going to shove it down your throat anyway. Robbery is a divisive issue, now hand over your wallet.
* Preventing Unintended Pregnancy: President Obama was an original co-sponsor of legislation to expand access to contraception, health information, and preventive services to help reduce unintended pregnancies. Introduced in January 2007, the Prevention First Act will increase funding for family planning and comprehensive sex education that teaches both abstinence and safe sex methods. The Act will also end insurance discrimination against contraception, improve awareness about emergency contraception, and provide compassionate assistance to rape victims.
As if people don't have enough access to contraception here. I guess they consider having to pay for it yourself is a lack of access. Of course compassionate assistance to rape victims does not mean checking to see if they are pregnant first before using an abortafacient like Plan B. The rapist does not get the death penalty, but the innocent person who might be the result of the evil of rape must die.
I wish I could add some more intelligent commentary, but as usual, someone beat me to it. CJ summed up my thoughts and feelings on current events much better than I could at the moment.
I'm sure there is more to come. Praying the for president and his family and I hope the choices he makes in the next four years are the right ones.
In keeping with what we are supposed to believe passes for Diocesan management, the diocese has made a decision to close a number of more churches (which they have been doing all along), yet today, make a large announcement about a supposed final tally.
The Diocese likes to pretend his is a ministry and it is for our spiritual benefit by calling it Called to BE Church, whatever that means. What happens to the Churches? Note, these buildings are some of the most orthodox and beautiful in our diocese, and are often sold to whoever, theater groups, people, the highest bidder.
One of the Churches closing in Amsterdam is a small,.urban parish that is beautifully decorated with marble, lined with life-size statues of he saints and the Hail Mary is written around the altar ceiling in Latin. It's so sad.
A couple of years ago, my husband and I learned to start buying mittens, hats and gloves at the dollar store. Why? Because they lose them. Incessantly. They just disappear. I don't know how many times I ask them to stuff them in their coat sleeves or whatever. Just >poof< into thin air. (Same goes for socks too, by the way).
Yesterday, Berylla had a doctor's appointment. The temps this week are frigid (although it turned out not to be so bad yesterday) and I didn't want to bring her out unless she resembled a slightly fashionable Eskimo. Surprise, no pair of mittens in sight. I found this tutorial online and some scraps of fleece leftover from the coat I made her and other fabric, and viola-45 minutes later-new mittens:
Gorbulas was most impressed!
Gorbulas: Mommy! Can you make me mittens like that?
Me: Sure, but I have to go to the fabric store and get fabric to make mittens for you. I just happened to have some scraps to make these for Berylla.
Gorbulas: Well, they don't have to be special, you can use scraps for me too.
Me: Well, all I have right now is scraps with flowers all over them.
Gorbulas: Oh no! You're right! I don't want flower mittens at all!
Watts Wastes No Time Losing Weight
(Jan. 13) - Less than a month after giving birth to her second son Samuel, Naomi Watts is flaunting her post-baby body -- making mommies everywhere jealous.
Of course, as a "jealous" mommy, allow me to state the obvious. Having a nutritionist, a nanny, a personal trainer, and a stylist and getting into shape a month later is not the same animal as being someone who's job it is to care for others besides yourself, and trying to find a minute here and there in between exhaustion to get back into shape. Also, the other obvious, these Hollywood starlets are having Baby # 1 and Baby #2 and the first, second, third babies do not wreak havoc on your figure the way 4 and up do.
So why am I whining about this...again? Well, Ia m grumpy and I feel with number 7 on the way, I have earned the right just to be a grump, and people need to deal...because oddly, it makes me feel better. Weird. I suppose I spend much of my time worrying about other people's comfort more so than mine, and now I am so uncomfortable, I am forced to address my own...or something like that. But I'm tired, I'm huge, I scare people when I walk into stores: "um, wow, anyday now..I bet. Do you need to sit?" "No. One month left. Go look at someone else!" It hurt when I walk and I still have to make supper every night!!! And my clothes don't fit.
I am NOT looking forward to delivering. NOT. NO! NO! NO! I do not see delivery as an end in sight, but rather than from the frying pan into the fire. I would rather stay like this as long as possible than go through post partum. If you read this blog you know it is the worst for me, I get repeated bouts of mastitis and post partum depression. The last two pregnancies (well, more to the point, the last) I tried very hard to be "pro-active" and do as much research I could on PPD, and found the factors I had control of, I do. The ones I don't-genetics, lack of help, drop in hormones, contribute just as much and there is little that can be done about it. This time around, I picked up on one aspect that I didn't put much stock into before-body image.
I stumbled on this gem of a blog:
I’ve never been a vain person, so I was surprised by my reaction to my appearance after delivery. I had gained a whopping 80 pounds during my pregnancy. After two and a half months of bedrest, what muscle tone I once had in my arms and legs was long gone. My abdominal muscles had separated. I had acne worse than I had as a teenager. My hair, which had grown so long and fast in pregnancy, was falling out in clumps.I’d had a c-section (which invites its own host of body issues) and felt sick looking down at the mean, purple incision and dozen staples. My stomach, once tight and muscular, was a pouch of flab hanging over my beltline. After trying to breastfeed, my breasts were smaller than they were before pregnancy.
Even worse than my post-delivery appearance was the realization that, three months later, I still looked like I had JUST had a baby.
I mean of one of my friends told me this, I would tell her "oh please, you just had a baby, cut yourself some slack," and I would mean it. I never look at my post partum friends and think "eewww", but rather that she looks beautiful and she carries it so well.
I actually think there is a practical aspect to this. Not just the "well, that's nature-hormnoes, emotions, body changes, crazy grandmothers that tell you how horrible you look at 1 month post partum, etc". What does one wear during this time frame? Maternity clothes? Regular clothes? I tend to do sweats or yoga pants the second week (pajamas the first). I DON'T YOGA PANTS in real life unless I'm doing yoga. Or post partum. I can't fit into regular clothes, but I read somewhere that one should never wear maternity clothes PP because maternity clothes are meant to accentuate the lovely, round figure of a pregnant woman, and that should not be accentuated PP. It just looks wrong. So what do you wear if you are normal and not Naomi Watts? Oh just give up already. Just stew in your jealous mire, and hide yourself from the world until you can be seen again. Right?
I don't understand Feminism. Tons and tons of propaganda about not reproducing, but nothing for the benefit of women who choose to do what women are biologically inclined to do. It's OK to push the unnatural body image of celebrities to the point of post partum depression for lots of women, and then we can blame it on the evils of plain, old motherhood, not backwards cultural attitudes.
Dawn blogs about Abortionist blogger pleads for money to terminate black mentally disabled teen's baby. Go read the entry.
Pansy and Peony: The Two Sleepy Mommies
