Obama and abortion, part III

It just keeps getting worse.

Here is SB1095.

More.

Here is SB1082.

Amends the Statute on Statutes. Defines "born-alive infant" to include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. Defines "born alive" to mean the complete expulsion or extraction from the mother of an infant, at any stage of development, who after that expulsion or extraction breathes or has a beating heart, pulsation of the umbilical cord, or definite movement of voluntary muscles, regardless of whether the umbilical cord has been cut and regardless of whether the expulsion or extraction occurs as a result of natural or induced labor, cesarean section, or induced abortion. Effective immediately.

This is infanticide! The fact that abortions are allowed this late is pregnancy is truly abhorrent.

Obama and abortion, part II

Obama on why he did not support the bill:

"It would essentially bar abortions because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this was a child then this would be an anti-abortion statute," Obama said in the Senate's debate in March 2001.

This is where abortion supporters start tying themselves into knots over the abortion issue. If it's not a child, then what is it? Why would it be a child if the mother wanted it?

I'm going to try to get a copy if this bill to see what it actually says.

Obama and abortion.

This is just disturbing. Candidate for President, Barack Obama voted against a bill that would allow doctors to provide medical care to babies who survived a late-term abortion.

In 2002, as an Illinois legislator, Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act, which would have protected babies that survived late-term abortions. That same year a similar federal law, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, was signed by President Bush. Only 15 members of the U.S. House opposed it, and it passed the Senate unanimously on a voice vote.

Even NARAL "did not oppose" this bill. I have serious problems with someone who has such a callous disregard for life.

Here is another story on the subject.

Update: More on the story here.

Ground Zero 2008

 

Here is Ground Zero from today. There doesn't seem to be much building going on. Sure, there are a couple of cranes for show, so that the tourists don't get the wrong idea, but this is about how Ground Zero looked in 2003, when we first moved here. The building on the right in the picture is 7 World Trade Center and it is new (finished in 2006, I think). The building being constructed in the background is not the WTC, but another building entirely.

I don't see this very often...

 

 

 

It has been quite hectic around here lately. Anna Sophia spends far too much time screaming everyday. I think she has reflux or something. She spits up a lot and is my only baby who has needed to be burped and she has to be burped often during her feeding or everything comes up! I wish I could make her feel better.

I am reading A Little Princess to Caroline and Isaac. Caroline seems really interested in the book. She will bring it to me multiple times during the day to read it to her. I am not sure how much of it she pays attention to or understands, but it is a well-written children's book and reading to her is much better than plopping her in front of a movie. Caroline and Isaac will sit at my feet with their books and "read" while I read to them. It's become a routine in our family. Oh, and since we are talking routines, I want to add that putting Caroline and Isaac on the same schedule has worked wonders for us. We used to alternate naps, which was dreadful as we would be stuck inside all day waiting for so-and-so to wake up and trying to be quite while they sleep. Now, we eat lunch at 11:30 and we ALL nap from 12-3pm or so. It's wonderful.

No mama, that's a Saltasaurus!

In our household, you better know your dinosaurs. While, going through one of our books on dinosaurs with Caroline, I pointed to what I thought was a brontosaurus, only to be corrected by my 3 year old. And she was right. Here is the wikipedia page on the saltasaurus. And, for the record, the brontosaurus is now officially called the Apatosaurus.

I am now teaching Caroline the Greek alphabet. Once we get the alphabet down, I will show her how to spell the dinosaur names in Greek. I am teaching her the lowercase version of the alphabet though, because the uppercase Greek looks too much like English and I don't want to confuse her.

This is an interesting column from Ralph Peters on supporting the troops. I very much agree with his perspective.

We've seen President Bush dressed up in a flight suit, grinning like Alfred E. Neuman among troops who desperately want to believe in their commander-in-chief. We've seen Sen. Hillary Clinton do drive-bys in Iraq - just long enough to make political statements, pose with the troops, then zip home.

For his part, Sen. Obama at least has the integrity to not even pretend he cares about the troops - he doesn't go anyplace more dangerous than a Chicago church pew. No recent aspirant for the Oval Office has known or cared so little about our military.

I'm just damned angry. The right won't admit any mistakes in Iraq, while the left seeks to undercut progress there.

Honorable, valiant and tenacious, our troops deserve better leaders. Never in our history have we seen so profound a contrast between those who serve and those who decide how they should be employed.

We also face, for the first time, national-level leaders who would rather lose a war than lose an election.

What actions in Washington would truly honor those 4,000 dead service members?

* From President Bush, a straightforward, no-excuses apology for his administration's arrogance and earlier mistakes in this war.

* From Sen. Clinton, a public denunciation of her Hollywood pals (who keep funding movies portraying our soldiers as atrocity-addicted psychotics) and a commitment to listen to our leading generals before making any decisions regarding troop withdrawals.

* From Sen. Obama, a two-week visit to dirty-boots Army and Marine units in Iraq (not the Green Zone and no photo ops) and a pledge to give a fair hearing to military advice before surrendering to al Qaeda in Iraq.

* From both parties in Congress, a return to the policy that, in wartime, politics stops at the water's edge.

Fat chance. We'll see Osama bin Laden become a Baptist first.

Four thousand dead service members in Iraq? Does any reader of this column believe that Bush, Clinton or Obama has lost a single hour of sleep thinking about those troops and their families?

I suspect that pathetic can't-get-a-date-so-I'll-protest-the-war guy on the street corner down here in the DC suburbs felt a more-genuine concern than any of the above.

Biofuels and global warming

Interesting.

Earliest Easter in 90 years.

I thought Easter seemed a bit early this year. Turns out that its the earliest Easter in my lifetime. Here is the story.

Homeschooling

Caroline is sitting beside me making "letters" with her playdoh. It is a pretty typical morning for us. Both Isaac and Anna Sophia are napping and we are having school time. Usually school time involves playdoh, but not always. Sometimes it involves crayons and paper, markers, or glue and macaroni. Now that she is getting bigger, people are starting to ask me why she isn't in school. She looks like a 4 year old in size and I guess most 4 year olds are in school. I usually tell people that we homeschool and what follows usually is a quizzical look and a question that I am still having trouble answering. "So, you're waiting until kindergarten to put her in school?" Uh, no. I have every intention of homeschooling my children, because traditional school systems do not teach the things I want my children to learn.

In recent story in the New York Post, someone from the Department of Education was lamenting how sex education is not mandatory in all public schools and how in some schools students get 4 or five years of sex ed and in other schools there is no sex ed at all. In fact, this person was advocating that sex ed be taught to the same extent that math or reading is taught and taught in every grade level. So, of course, my first thought was that the school system wants to teach sex ed badly to a first grader?

Here is the direct quote:

"We believe it's time that we treat sex ed as seriously as we treat math or social studies," she said. "Our hope is that every kid will be taught sex ed in every grade every year."

I am not opposed to sex education per se, but I don't the public schools teaching that stuff to my children.

Amateur Dentistry on Daddy!

 

 

 

Should I let this photo speak for itself? If you ever fail to supervise your almost-two-year-old son, it should not surprise you when you find the bottle of laundry soap open and upside down in the sink. My photo of the floor was not in focus, so I'll leave it to your imagination. Let me just add the the formerly full bottle is nearly empty now. *sigh*

 

Isaac after his nap and afternoon outing.

 

A family photo. It's tough to get everyone there and facing the camera.

 
Anna Sophia is enjoying her very first Easter morning.