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Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
1. Forget Murtha and Rangel, Let’s Prosecute Catholic Bishops!
2. Pro-Abortion Senator who Could Live with Stupak is Attacked by Net-roots & Caves
3. The Stupak Minimum
4. Democrats Divided on Abortion
5. Charlie Crist And the Stimulus Love: “It’s a Bridge of Help”
6. Hope and Change Watch: AG Holder upholding PATRIOT Act.
1. Forget Murtha and Rangel, Let’s Prosecute Catholic Bishops!
The Democrats have a number of members being investigated for corruption. The FBI is looking into a few. William Jefferson (D-LA) is going to jail. The House Democratic Leadership is blocking other investigations.
Both Murtha and Rangel have issues. But Lynn Woolsey, Chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, that congressional body that takes pride in the Progressive Movement’s eugenics experiments and efforts to sterilize black women and the mentally disabled back at the start of the twentieth century, does not want Charlie Rangel and Jack Murtha investigated.
Instead, Lynn Woolsey — a friend of Speaker Pelosi’s — wants Catholic Bishops investigated.
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2. Pro-Abortion Senator who Could Live with Stupak is Attacked by Net-roots & Caves
The difference between the U.S. House and U.S. Senate debate on the Stupak amendment is stark.
The pro-abortion Members of Congress in the House, and pro-abortion groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood, rolled over and did not threaten to derail the bill because Speaker Pelosi asked them to. So they played dead.
Senator McCaskill (D-MO), who is pro-abortion, publicly said she could live with the Stupak amendment. (This link also shows the deep net-roots anger against NARAL and Emily’s List for playing dead and letting Stupak pass at the request of the Speaker.)
Senator McCaskill is not the Speaker of the House, and she was not so lucky — she did not get a free pass.
She was instantly pounded by pro-abortion forces. Senator McCaskill has now changed her tune — she will not support Stupak in the Senate — all in the same day.
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3. The Stupak Minimum
It may, in fact, turn out that Stupak is the undoing of the health care bill. I don’t know and, again, won’t second guess the House GOP Leadership, which firmly believes it made the right call. Our presumption going forward should be that they made the right call, regardless of our personal opinions.
More importantly, what I would suggest is that conservatives not turn the health care fight into a fight over abortion tactics and policy. The bill is two thousand freedom sucking pages of crap and is, with or without Stupak, very clearly not conducive to a culture of life. Abortion is only one aspect.
The GOP and outside interest groups should now agitate for the “Stupak Minimum,” i.e. the Stupak amendment language must be the baseline for pro-life language in the health care legislation. Anything less should be opposed.
The Democrats will never go for it. But above all else, we must remember the strategy must be to kill the bill, not improve it.
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4. Democrats Divided on Abortion
A funny thing is happening on the way to the impending health care showdown, as the Democrats try to turn the newly-passed House bill into something that can pass both Houses of Congress: Democrats are divided over abortion, and their divisions threaten to wreck the bill. With government-run health care having passed the House with only a 3-vote margin of victory, 60 votes needed in the Senate, and pro-life and pro-choice Democrats both vowing to go to war over the bill’s abortion provisions, the whole legislative initiative can be put at risk by even a small number of defectors.
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5. Charlie Crist And the Stimulus Love: “It’s a Bridge of Help”
We’ve got a video of Florida Governor Charlie Crist, in his own words, saying “During the town hall [with Barack Obama], I reiterated my support for the federal stimulus package, and pledged to the people of Florida that here in Florida we stand ready to use our share of the money quickly and responsibly to create new jobs and serve our most vulnerable citizens.”
But where it gets interesting is that Crist believes Florida needed to get its “fair share” of the stimulus. It’s a “bridge of help,” in Crist’s words.
That’s not very conservative language.
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6. Hope and Change Watch: AG Holder upholding PATRIOT Act.
Actually, in this context ’same as the old boss’ would be a comfort. To me, at least, if not the folks who made such a hullabaloo over the PATRIOT Act; I’m not worried about the government abusing its authority so much as I worry about it making an utter hash of its attempt to try to use it. But of course said ‘abuse’ was not the least common election-year theme - usually in the context of how things would change, once the Republicans weren’t running things. And usually argued by people who really should have known better.
Which is why I’m more amused than anything else about this:
“Attorney General Eric Holder endorsed the Senate’s version of legislation that would extend three provisions of the Patriot Act that are slated to expire at the end of the year.”
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Dan Perrin Wednesday, November 11th at 8:50AM EST (link)n.t
Beautiful Poem
Gandalf Wednesday, November 11th at 10:59AM EST (link)I’m working in the Somme region of France and had the chance to visit several Great War cemeteries, memorials, and battlefields last week with some German coworkers. Incredible. Heartbreaking.
The worst thing about it? It didn’t need to happen. This war was solely fought over politics and land. A terrible waste. And whose to know? If England and the United States had chosen sides differently, Europe might very well have followed a different path altogether. Indeed, even within historical context, one has to ask what we were thinking when we supported the Third Republic instead of the Kaiser. If we had chosen differently, we may never have had Fascist Germany, Soviet Russia, or so many of the other evils that we know have. The pathetic German groveling would not have started. The insatiable French pride would have been vanquished, yet history tells us they probably would have maintained their identity. Spain and Eastern Europe would have been spared decades of dictatorship.
Having spent some much time touring the area, I don’t believe we should have ever gotten involved in this conflict.
But only a few miles away, one can find memorials, cemeteries, and battlefields dedicated to the other World War. In this war, there was a real evil. An ideology that screamed for the death of those in its way, for the suppression and destruction of thought, ideas, and liberty. It was, though many refuse to understand, a religious war. I, and most Americans, regret that we didn’t get involved sooner.
There are lessons to be learned here. The wars we are fighting now, and that we will need to fight in the future, are they more like World War II or the Great War? Liberal media and academia insist they bear similarities to the Great War. They refuse to see that we are now fighting an ideology, a religion, which demands the death of those in its way, the suppression and destruction of thought, ideas, and liberty. In reality, our current situation bears much more resemblance to the Second World War than the Great War. The lesson must be learned and quickly if we are to survive.
Christian Conservative First
Patriotic American Second
Dedicated Republican Third
Yes, the order is important.
If we didn't get in, the British and French
Achance Wednesday, November 11th at 11:06AM EST (link)wouldn’t have been able to repay their loans. I really do believe that WWI is the one war where the power elite took the Nation to war for pretty much totally pecuniary interests. ‘Course, then they never did repay all of their loans.
Not long ago, every kid in America had read that poem and most had had to memorize it at some time. Try finding it in a literature book, or a history book, now.
In Vino Veritas