Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s murder trial is an horrific example of a man's cruelty towards mankind. This is the sort of evil that makes one wonder about hope for humanity. Sadly, the news channels either do not care or are actively avoiding the issue. Why? good question.
What we know so far:
Gosnell allegedly treated his minority clients with much less respect than his white patients. Considering that he was named, according to the AP, in more than 40 malpractice suits, the clinic head would purportedly perform abortions for caucasian women in cleaner locations (he assumed whites were more likely to complain about him)..
In addition to the murderous allegations being waged against Gosnell, eight former employees of the clinic have pleaded guilty (some to third-degree murder) and have spoken in great lengths about the terrifying conditions at the clinic.
A 15-year-old girl allegedly helped facilitate abortions — including on potentially live babies — at the clinic. Ashley Baldwin, now 22, claims she worked nearly 50 hours per week. Even more shocking, she allegedly helped give women the drugs needed for the procedure — and apparently assisted throughout. Baldwin said that she saw aborted babies move on at least two occasions following abortions (in one instance, she said “the chest was moving”).
Gosnell purportedly used untrained and low-paid staff to conduct nearly 1,000 abortions each year. The charge for a procedure in the horrific conditions mentioned? Between $350 and several thousand, depending on how far along the pregnancy was. Prosecutors believe he made millions from the practice. Authorities claim the clinic brought in about $15,000 per day. Speaking of “untrained,” prosecutors claim, according to the Gospel Coalition, that Gosnell is not certified to work in either gynecology or obstetrics.
In the grand jury report, the clinic was said to smell of animal urine and blood stains were on blankets and furniture inside of the office. Not surprisingly, sterilized instruments were unheard of inside the establishment. And somehow the state had failed to inspect — or even visit — the clinic since 1993.
In March, Adrienne Moton, a medical assistant at the clinic, provided sickening details about her alleged actions at the clinic, claiming that she snipped the spines of at least 10 babies; she said that another worker — and Gosnell himself — did the same. But that’s not the worst part. Moton also claimed that she once killed a baby after it was delivered in a toilet by cutting its neck with scissors. Moton plead guilty and has been in prison since 2011.
Another former employee, Sherry West, shared yet another horrifying story. She claims that she was once called to the back room at the clinic, where aborted babies’ bodies were apparently kept on a shelf. Once there, West heard a live baby among the bodies cry out. The screaming child “really freaked” her out, she told the court. “I can’t describe it. It sounded like a little alien,” she said, noting that she previously referred to the babies as “specimens,” because it was easier to mentally handle what was going on at the clinic.
Then there’s Robyn Reid’s story. She was only an 87-pound teen when she went to the clinic in 1998. Accompanied by her grandmother, she was looking for an abortion. But once she made it to the office, Reid changed her mind. But Salem-News.com writes that the doctor allegedly forced an abortion on her. ”Gosnell ripped off her clothes and restrained the girl. When she regained consciousness 12 hours later at her aunt’s home, she discovered that an abortion had been performed against her will,” the website reports.
Documentary The 3801 Lancaster Film Project is an ongoing documentary series about Kermit Gosnell, the Women’s Medical Society, and the cover-up by state and local oversight agencies.
As we continue to follow the story, there are three goals:
First, to make the public aware of what happened at the Women's Medical Society.
Second, to give Gosnell's victims an outlet to tell their stories.
Third, to help find and shut down clinics that continue to operate in the same manner as the Women’s Medical Society.
The Washington post's Erik Wemple asked why as well.
Would this have anything to do with the left leaning media's abortion rights stance?
April 13, 2013
Politically Correct Pecking order?
Source: By Exra Levant, Canadian media personality, conservative political activist and author.
High school can be a tough place for awkward teenagers to fit in, and being gay would make that even tougher.
Which is the rationale behind gay-straight alliances — student clubs set up to normalize being gay.
Same idea behind pink shirt day, which was in February.
But what about freedom of religion, specifically for schools that teach Bible-based sexual morality?
Of course, no one should be bullied at any school, for being gay or anything else.
But should Catholic schools be forced to positively affirm homosexuality?
Isn’t commanding a Catholic school to let same-sex couples go to the prom sort of like ordering a Jewish school to serve pork in the cafeteria?
This question was answered with a sledgehammer last June in Ontario, when that province passed the Accepting Schools Act.
So now the Archbishop of Toronto oversees a Catholic school system that, to quote the law, must be “more equitable and inclusive for all people, including LGBTTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirited, intersex, queer and questioning) people.”
LGBTTIQ and intersexed. Those are words now.
But what about Muslim schools?
Will they be asked to put the Qur’an second and “transgender acceptance” first?
The Valley Park Middle School in Toronto hasn’t. It’s not even a Muslim school — just a public school with a lot of Muslim students.
But each Friday, the cafeteria is handed over to a Muslim imam to lead weekly prayers. What makes the school’s mosqueteria even more remarkable is that students are segregated: Boys sit in the front, girls sit in the back, and girls who are menstruating are told to sit at the far back.
Do you think the Valley Park Middle School has a gay-straight alliance?
Do you think if one of the boys in that cafeteria announced he was two-spirited, and wanted to sit with the girls, that he’d be “accepted”?
Or, look to another province, the Edmonton Islamic Academy that claims to be the biggest Muslim school in North America.
It’s run by the Al-Rashid mosque, whose clerics often visit to give lectures in shariah law. Including on the subject of homosexuality.
Here’s a transcript of some comments made by Sheikh Mustafa Khattab of Al-Rashid. He’s proud of his lectures at the school — he puts videos of them on the Internet.
Like this one: “The worst thing about the west is too much freedom … Homosexuality is against everything. It is against Akhlaq (moral values). It is against nature or the way we are created … For me, someone who is homosexual is like someone who has diabetes or someone who has cancer or AIDS … Personally, I don’t like to be associated with them.”
The video then shows Khattab doing a little dramatic acting. He pretends he was sitting next to someone gay, and he awkwardly shuffles away from them, saying, “I was sitting next to the guy, I just moved my chair.
“I didn’t feel comfortable sitting next to this guy.”
The students love it, and burst out laughing.
Now, many people share Khattab’s views — not just fundamentalist Muslims.
He did not preach capital punishment for gays, as the Qur’an prescribes and as countries like Iran do. But he led his students in a good mocking laugh at gays — and compared being gay to having cancer.
We believe in freedom of religion in Canada. The Edmonton Islamic Academy has received millions of dollars of taxpayers money, including from gay taxpayers, but then again so have Catholic schools (though it’s hard to imagine a Catholic school teacher laughing at gays and comparing homosexuality to cancer).
What is so curious, though, is why Canada’s anti-bullying squads are practically dispatching the national guard to escort gay couples to the prom at Catholic schools, but don’t dare whisper a word of concern about the Edmonton Islamic Academy or the Valley Park Middle School or a dozen others.
It’s the politically correct pecking order.
To politicians, gays trump Christians.
But Muslims trump gays.
High school can be a tough place for awkward teenagers to fit in, and being gay would make that even tougher.
Which is the rationale behind gay-straight alliances — student clubs set up to normalize being gay.
Same idea behind pink shirt day, which was in February.
But what about freedom of religion, specifically for schools that teach Bible-based sexual morality?
Of course, no one should be bullied at any school, for being gay or anything else.
But should Catholic schools be forced to positively affirm homosexuality?
Isn’t commanding a Catholic school to let same-sex couples go to the prom sort of like ordering a Jewish school to serve pork in the cafeteria?
This question was answered with a sledgehammer last June in Ontario, when that province passed the Accepting Schools Act.
So now the Archbishop of Toronto oversees a Catholic school system that, to quote the law, must be “more equitable and inclusive for all people, including LGBTTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, two-spirited, intersex, queer and questioning) people.”
LGBTTIQ and intersexed. Those are words now.
But what about Muslim schools?
Will they be asked to put the Qur’an second and “transgender acceptance” first?
The Valley Park Middle School in Toronto hasn’t. It’s not even a Muslim school — just a public school with a lot of Muslim students.
But each Friday, the cafeteria is handed over to a Muslim imam to lead weekly prayers. What makes the school’s mosqueteria even more remarkable is that students are segregated: Boys sit in the front, girls sit in the back, and girls who are menstruating are told to sit at the far back.
Do you think the Valley Park Middle School has a gay-straight alliance?
Do you think if one of the boys in that cafeteria announced he was two-spirited, and wanted to sit with the girls, that he’d be “accepted”?
Or, look to another province, the Edmonton Islamic Academy that claims to be the biggest Muslim school in North America.
It’s run by the Al-Rashid mosque, whose clerics often visit to give lectures in shariah law. Including on the subject of homosexuality.
Here’s a transcript of some comments made by Sheikh Mustafa Khattab of Al-Rashid. He’s proud of his lectures at the school — he puts videos of them on the Internet.
Like this one: “The worst thing about the west is too much freedom … Homosexuality is against everything. It is against Akhlaq (moral values). It is against nature or the way we are created … For me, someone who is homosexual is like someone who has diabetes or someone who has cancer or AIDS … Personally, I don’t like to be associated with them.”
The video then shows Khattab doing a little dramatic acting. He pretends he was sitting next to someone gay, and he awkwardly shuffles away from them, saying, “I was sitting next to the guy, I just moved my chair.
“I didn’t feel comfortable sitting next to this guy.”
The students love it, and burst out laughing.
Now, many people share Khattab’s views — not just fundamentalist Muslims.
He did not preach capital punishment for gays, as the Qur’an prescribes and as countries like Iran do. But he led his students in a good mocking laugh at gays — and compared being gay to having cancer.
We believe in freedom of religion in Canada. The Edmonton Islamic Academy has received millions of dollars of taxpayers money, including from gay taxpayers, but then again so have Catholic schools (though it’s hard to imagine a Catholic school teacher laughing at gays and comparing homosexuality to cancer).
What is so curious, though, is why Canada’s anti-bullying squads are practically dispatching the national guard to escort gay couples to the prom at Catholic schools, but don’t dare whisper a word of concern about the Edmonton Islamic Academy or the Valley Park Middle School or a dozen others.
It’s the politically correct pecking order.
To politicians, gays trump Christians.
But Muslims trump gays.
April 12, 2013
Lets legislate beliefs! Welcome to the Liberal world of State the State Run Church!
Gay “marriage” is not about what people want to privately believe marriage means to them. It is about bringing the armed might of the state to bear on punishing people who will not pretend that there is such thing as gay “marriage”.
It will create three classes of people. Those who lie to themselves, those who lie to others, and those who will not lie and will be punished, sued, and jailed accordingly.
It is about force, not freedom. And it will be used to punish the Church for its moral teaching.
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It will create three classes of people. Those who lie to themselves, those who lie to others, and those who will not lie and will be punished, sued, and jailed accordingly.
It is about force, not freedom. And it will be used to punish the Church for its moral teaching.
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April 10, 2013
Liberal Questions, Progressive Answers.
Back during the Bush years, I had many a debate about Guantanamo. Lots of rancor thrown about, talk about the Shredding of our Constitution etc. When Obama ran for President this was a main plank in his platform. Question: Are the Liberals out there screaming about this forgotten issue?
Answer: Poll finds broad support for Obama’s counterterrorism policies.
The poll shows that 53 percent of self-identified liberal Democrats — and 67 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats — support keeping Guantanamo Bay open, even though it emerged as a symbol of the post-Sept. 11 national security policies of George W. Bush, which many liberals bitterly opposed.
There was also a lot of concern over the Bush\Cheney assault on civil liberties. Primarily that if the president accuses someone of being a terrorist can be detained without due process, or even killed without the same. Not to mention Bush’s mere due-process-free eavesdropping on and detention of American citizens. This caused much liberal outrage. Question: Are the Liberals out there similarly outraged with Obama?
Answer: Liberals, Dems approve of drone strikes on American citizens abroad
The number of those who approve of the drone strikes drops nearly 20 percent when respondents are told that the targets are American citizens. But that 65 percent is still a very big number, given that these policies really should be controversial.
And get this: Depressingly, Democrats approve of the drone strikes on American citizens by 58-33, and even liberals approve of them, 55-35. Those numbers were provided to me by the Post polling team.
Lets go back to 2006 and see what was being stated on the left. Do Bush followers have a political ideology?
Whether one is a “liberal” — or, for that matter, a “conservative” — is now no longer a function of one’s actual political views, but is a function purely of one’s personal loyalty to George Bush. . . .
People who self-identify as “conservatives” and have always been considered to be conservatives become liberal heathens the moment they dissent, even on the most non-ideological grounds, from a Bush decree. That’s because “conservatism” is now a term used to describe personal loyalty to the leader (just as “liberal” is used to describe disloyalty to that leader), and no longer refers to a set of beliefs about government.
That “conservatism” has come to mean “loyalty to George Bush” is particularly ironic given how truly un-conservative the Administration is. . . . And in that regard, people like Michelle Malkin, John Hinderaker, Jonah Goldberg and Hugh Hewitt are not conservatives. They are authoritarian cultists. Their allegiance is not to any principles of government but to strong authority through a single leader.
To sum it up: Do you surrender your autonomy by joining a political party?
“under the leadership of a President who campaigned with the promise to close the facility, . . . support for the detention center may be at its highest level ever.”
So this was not about Bush being evil or Obama being Evil it is about the notion that Evil depends on who is running the show...
Answer: Poll finds broad support for Obama’s counterterrorism policies.
The poll shows that 53 percent of self-identified liberal Democrats — and 67 percent of moderate or conservative Democrats — support keeping Guantanamo Bay open, even though it emerged as a symbol of the post-Sept. 11 national security policies of George W. Bush, which many liberals bitterly opposed.
There was also a lot of concern over the Bush\Cheney assault on civil liberties. Primarily that if the president accuses someone of being a terrorist can be detained without due process, or even killed without the same. Not to mention Bush’s mere due-process-free eavesdropping on and detention of American citizens. This caused much liberal outrage. Question: Are the Liberals out there similarly outraged with Obama?
Answer: Liberals, Dems approve of drone strikes on American citizens abroad
The number of those who approve of the drone strikes drops nearly 20 percent when respondents are told that the targets are American citizens. But that 65 percent is still a very big number, given that these policies really should be controversial.
And get this: Depressingly, Democrats approve of the drone strikes on American citizens by 58-33, and even liberals approve of them, 55-35. Those numbers were provided to me by the Post polling team.
Lets go back to 2006 and see what was being stated on the left. Do Bush followers have a political ideology?
Whether one is a “liberal” — or, for that matter, a “conservative” — is now no longer a function of one’s actual political views, but is a function purely of one’s personal loyalty to George Bush. . . .
People who self-identify as “conservatives” and have always been considered to be conservatives become liberal heathens the moment they dissent, even on the most non-ideological grounds, from a Bush decree. That’s because “conservatism” is now a term used to describe personal loyalty to the leader (just as “liberal” is used to describe disloyalty to that leader), and no longer refers to a set of beliefs about government.
That “conservatism” has come to mean “loyalty to George Bush” is particularly ironic given how truly un-conservative the Administration is. . . . And in that regard, people like Michelle Malkin, John Hinderaker, Jonah Goldberg and Hugh Hewitt are not conservatives. They are authoritarian cultists. Their allegiance is not to any principles of government but to strong authority through a single leader.
To sum it up: Do you surrender your autonomy by joining a political party?
“under the leadership of a President who campaigned with the promise to close the facility, . . . support for the detention center may be at its highest level ever.”
So this was not about Bush being evil or Obama being Evil it is about the notion that Evil depends on who is running the show...
Light at the end of the Global Warming scam?
Relief from the Global Warming scam?
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Climate Depot Note: “The mainstream media cannot maintain the official man-made global warming narrative any longer. With the lack of warming and the failure to shift the climate debate to “extreme weather”, warmists are now losing once stalwart members of the media in promoting man-made climate fears. These are not good times for the promoters of global warming. Earth is failing to follow global warming predictions and the new study claiming current temperatures are the “hottest ever” may be facing a full scientific retraction. The great warmist retreat has officially begun.”
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Shock: The Great Warmist Retreat Has Begun! UK Telegraph: ‘Global warming: time to rein back on doom and gloom?’ — Global temp lull ‘raises the possibility that Carbon dioxide may be less potent than has been thought in heating the planet’ — UK Telegraph’s Geoffrey Lean: ‘Some recent research suggests that climate change might not be as catastrophic as the gloomiest predictions suggest…Until now, they have therefore placed much weight on the rapid temperature increases in the Eighties and Nineties. But for at least a decade, these have dramatically slowed, even as carbon dioxide emissions have continued to increase. None of this justifies the frequent claim by climate sceptics that global warming has stopped, and may now reverse. Long lulls have occurred before, only for temperatures to resume their relentless rise…But it may be less guilty than once supposed. And this is reinforced by recent findings that emissions of soot, or black carbon – which patient readers may remember I have been banging on about for years – are causing twice as much warming as previously estimated, meaning that the contribution of CO2 must be correspondingly less.’
Full retreat? ‘Geoffrey Lean at the Telegraph has, somewhat belatedly, picked up on the low climate sensitivity news. Yes, you read that correctly, Geoffrey Lean. Who will be next to turn sceptic?’ – ‘When even zealots like Lean are in retreat it’s fair to say that something significant has changed. One can only wonder whether this change of tune is a function of the Economist’s coverage of the issue or of what Lean’s contacts are whispering to him about the Fifth Assessment Report’
Is the media waking up on global warming? ‘Tic, tic, tic. The sleeping MSM is stirring. Headlines no one could imagine seeing a few years ago are popping up on a regular basis. The backdown is beginning’ – ‘What caused the shift? [UK Telegraph's] Lean noted in late December that the UK Met Bureau reduced its forecasts, that there has been a long pause in warming, and he points out here that there are now, increasingly, new lower estimates of climate sensitivity…The meme that skeptics do have a point has made it through to a new circle of journalists’
UN IPCC’s Kevin Trenberth redefines global warming: Warming No Longer Requires Warming –’Global warming is continuing but it’s being manifested in somewhat different ways,’ said Kevin Trenberth, of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research. Warming can go, for instance, to the air, water, land or to melting ice and snow…’pauses in surface warming could last 15-20 years’
Retreat?! Et Tu Wash. Post?: WaPo Opinion writer Ed Rogers: ‘Voters are cool and the planet is too’ — ‘Fewer and fewer Americans say global warming is a serious problem’ & ‘the globe is not getting warmer — or at least, it hasn’t in the last 15 years’ — ‘Just as voters are cooling to global climate alarmists, the planet has stopped warming…Politically, the bottom line is that global warming is fading as an issue. Given the bad economy and the undeniable temperature stasis, it will be interesting to see if the Democrats who must face voters in 19 months will continue to stay silent as Obama pursues higher energy prices and bogus government spending on useless ‘green energy’ boondoggles’
Global Warming — ‘The End of an Illusion’: ‘A theory with this many holes in it would have been thrown out long ago…can’t we all just stop calling this ‘science’ now?’ – ’I've grown old waiting for the promised global warming.’ Literally: ‘I was 35 when predictions of a looming ice age were supplanted by warmmongering. Now I’m 68, and there’s still no sign of warmer weather.’ — ‘So basically, all that the global warming advocates really have, as the evidentiary basis for their theory, is that global temperatures were a little higher than usual in the late 1990s. That’s it. Which proves nothing. The climate varies, just as weather varies, and as far as we can tell, this is all well within the normal range’ — ‘A theory with this many holes in it would be have been thrown out long ago, if not for the fact that it conveniently serves the political function of indicting fossil fuels as a planet-destroying evil and allowing radical environmentalists to put a modern, scientific face on their primitivist crusade to shut down industrial civilization. But can’t we all just stop calling this ‘science’ now?’
Media Sea Change?! Der Spiegel Stops Believing…’Hot Debate Over Climate: How Reliable Are The Prognoses?’ Growing Doubts Over Models! — The flagship German news magazine writes: ‘Global warming has stalled for 15 years. Experts thus are having doubts on the reliability of their prognoses. The temperature development is moving along the lowest margins of the UN scenarios.’ Science reporter Axel Bojanowski at Spiegel here looks at the performance of climate models, claiming that some aren’t doing too bad, while the alarmist ones are failing…’For this reason some scientists now harbor the hope that the pessimistic climate prognoses could be wrong.’
Forbes Mag.: ‘Global Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All?’ – ‘I’ve grown old waiting for the promised global warming. I was 35 when predictions of a looming ice age were supplanted by warmmongering. Now I’m 68, and there’s still no sign of warmer weather’ — ‘Climate panic, after all, is fear of dramatic, life-altering climate changes, not about tenths of a degree. We are told that we must ‘take action right now before it’s Too Late!’
‘Meet the new climate deniers’ — The promoters of man-made global warming! — ‘The new climate deniers are the liberals who, despite their obsession with climate change, have managed to miss the biggest story in climate science, which is that there hasn’t been any global warming for about a decade and a half…What is beginning to seem more likely is that the “sensitivity” of the global climate to carbon emissions has been overestimated. If so, the deniers will be the last to admit it’
Analysis: ‘The models are broken, by the standards warmists set’ — ‘The global warming pause extends by every measure to more than 15 years’ — ‘For RSS the warming is not significant for over 23 years — UAH the warming is not significant for over 19 years — For Hadcrut3 the warming is not significant for over 19 years — For Hadcrut4 the warming is not significant for over 18 years — For GISS the warming is not significant for over 17 years’ ‘Once warmists said 15 years of no statistically significant warming invalidated their models’
New paper finds climate models are ‘inconsistent with past warming’: Published in Environmental Research Letters — Study ‘finds that climate models exaggerate the upper end of projected global warming because the models are ‘inconsistent with past warming.’ The paper adds to many other recent peer-reviewed studies demonstrating that IPCC projections of global warming are exaggerated’
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Prominent scientist known as ‘Einstein’s successor’ declares himself a global warming skeptic — Rips colleagues: Freeman Dyson: ‘I just think they don’t understand the climate’ – Freeman Dyson on climatologists: ‘I just think they don’t understand the climate. Their models are full of fudge factors’
‘Some of the most formidable opponents of climate hysteria include politically liberal physics Nobel laureate, Ivar Giaever; Freeman Dyson; father of the Gaia Hypothesis, James Lovelock – ‘Left-center chemist, Fritz Vahrenholt, one of the fathers of the German environmental movement’
Top Swedish Climate Scientist Says Warming Not Noticeable: ‘The warming we have had last a 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all’ — Award-Winning Dr. Lennart Bengtsson, formerly of UN IPCC: ‘We Are Creating Great Anxiety Without It Being Justified…there are no indications that the warming is so severe that we need to panic…The warming we have had the last a 100 years is so small that if we didn’t have had meteorologists and climatologists to measure it we wouldn’t have noticed it at all.’
April 06, 2013
AP actually spells out the numbers behind the numbers.
Color me impressed. AP actually does some reporting!
Associated Press on the Latest Jobs Numbers: A Recovery ‘Isn’t Supposed to Be This Way’
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up.
She’d already abandoned hope of getting work in her field, counseling the disabled. But she couldn’t land anything else, either – not even a job interview at a telephone call center.
Until she feels confident enough to send out resumes again, she’ll get by on food stamps and disability checks from Social Security and live with her parents in St. Louis.
“I’m not proud of it,” says Baebler, who is in her mid-30s and is blind. “The only way I’m able to sustain any semblance of self-preservation is to rely on government programs that I have no desire to be on.”
Baebler’s frustrating experience has become all too common nearly four years after the Great Recession ended: Many Americans are still so discouraged that they’ve given up on the job market.
Older Americans have retired early. Younger ones have enrolled in school. Others have suspended their job hunt until the employment landscape brightens. Some, like Baebler, are collecting disability checks.
It isn’t supposed to be this way. After a recession, an improving economy is supposed to bring people back into the job market. Instead, the number of Americans in the labor force – those who have a job or are looking for one – fell by nearly half a million people from February to March, the government said Friday. And the percentage of working-age adults in the labor force – what’s called the participation rate – fell to 63.3 percent last month. It’s the lowest such figure since May 1979.
The falling participation rate tarnished the only apparent good news in the jobs report the Labor Department released Friday: The unemployment rate dropped to a four-year low of 7.6 percent in March from 7.7 in February.
People without a job who stop looking for one are no longer counted as unemployed. That’s why the U.S. unemployment rate dropped in March despite weak hiring. If the 496,000 who left the labor force last month had still been looking for jobs, the unemployment rate would have risen to 7.9 percent in March.
“Unemployment dropped for all the wrong reasons,” says Craig Alexander, chief economist with TD Bank Financial Group. “It dropped because more workers stopped looking for jobs. It signaled less confidence and optimism that there are jobs out there.”
The participation rate peaked at 67.3 percent in 2000, reflecting an influx of women into the work force. It’s been falling steadily ever since.
Part of the drop reflects the baby boom generation’s gradual move into retirement. But such demographics aren't the whole answer.
Even Americans of prime working age – 25 to 54 years old – are dropping out of the workforce. Their participation rate fell to 81.1 percent last month, tied with November for the lowest since December 1984.
“It’s the lack of job opportunities – the lack of demand for workers – that is keeping these workers from working or seeking work,” says Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute. The Labor Department says there are still more than three unemployed people for every job opening.
Cynthia Marriott gave up her job search after an interview in October for a position as a hotel concierge.
“They never said no,” she says. “They just never called me back.”
Her husband hasn't worked full time since 2006. She cashed out her 401(k) after being laid off from a job at a Los Angeles entertainment publicity firm in 2009. The couple owes thousands in taxes for that withdrawal. They have no health insurance.
She got the maximum 99 weeks’ of unemployment benefits then allowed in California and then moved to Atlanta.
Now she is looking to receive federal disability benefits for a lung condition that she said leaves her weak and unable to work a full day. The application is pending a medical review.
“I feel like I have no choice,” says Marriott, 47. “It’s just really sad and frightening”
During the peak of her job search, Marriott was filling out 10 applications a day. She applied for jobs she felt overqualified for, such as those at Home Depot and Petco but never heard back. Eventually, the disappointment and fatigue got to her.
“I just wanted a job,” she says. “I couldn’t really go on anymore looking for a job.”
Young people are leaving the job market, too. The participation rate for Americans ages 20 to 24 hit a 41-year low 69.6 percent last year before bouncing back a bit. Many young people have enrolled in community colleges and universities. That’s one reason a record 63 percent of adults ages 25 to 29 have spent at least some time in college, according to the Pew Research Center.
Older Americans are returning to school, too. Doug Damato, who lives in Asheville, N.C., lost his job as an installer at a utility company in February 2012. He stopped looking for work last fall, when he began taking classes in mechanical engineering at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.
Next week, Damato, 40, will accept an academic award for earning top grades. But one obstacle has emerged: Under a recent change in state law, his unemployment benefits will now end July 1, six months earlier than he expected.
Job seekers speak to representatives of employers at a job fair at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan on March 6, 2013 in New York City. (Photo: Getty Images)tt
He’s planning to work nights, if possible, to support himself once the benefits run out. Dropping out of school is “out of the question,” he said, given the time he has already put into the program.
“I don’t want a handout,” he says. “I’m trying to better myself.”
Many older Americans who lost their jobs are finding refuge in Social Security’s disability program. Nearly 8.9 million Americans are receiving disability checks, up 1.3 million from when the recession ended in June 2009.
Natasha Baebler’s journey out of the labor force and onto the disability rolls began when she lost her job serving disabled students and staff members at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., in February 2012.
For six months, she sought jobs in her field, brandishing master’s degrees in social education and counseling. No luck.
Then she just started looking for anything. Still, she had no takers.
“I chose to stop and take a step back for a while … After you've seen that amount of rejection,” she says, “you start thinking, `What’s going to make this time any different?’ ”
Associated Press on the Latest Jobs Numbers: A Recovery ‘Isn’t Supposed to Be This Way’
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a full year of fruitless job hunting, Natasha Baebler just gave up.
She’d already abandoned hope of getting work in her field, counseling the disabled. But she couldn’t land anything else, either – not even a job interview at a telephone call center.
Until she feels confident enough to send out resumes again, she’ll get by on food stamps and disability checks from Social Security and live with her parents in St. Louis.
“I’m not proud of it,” says Baebler, who is in her mid-30s and is blind. “The only way I’m able to sustain any semblance of self-preservation is to rely on government programs that I have no desire to be on.”
Baebler’s frustrating experience has become all too common nearly four years after the Great Recession ended: Many Americans are still so discouraged that they’ve given up on the job market.
Older Americans have retired early. Younger ones have enrolled in school. Others have suspended their job hunt until the employment landscape brightens. Some, like Baebler, are collecting disability checks.
It isn’t supposed to be this way. After a recession, an improving economy is supposed to bring people back into the job market. Instead, the number of Americans in the labor force – those who have a job or are looking for one – fell by nearly half a million people from February to March, the government said Friday. And the percentage of working-age adults in the labor force – what’s called the participation rate – fell to 63.3 percent last month. It’s the lowest such figure since May 1979.
The falling participation rate tarnished the only apparent good news in the jobs report the Labor Department released Friday: The unemployment rate dropped to a four-year low of 7.6 percent in March from 7.7 in February.
People without a job who stop looking for one are no longer counted as unemployed. That’s why the U.S. unemployment rate dropped in March despite weak hiring. If the 496,000 who left the labor force last month had still been looking for jobs, the unemployment rate would have risen to 7.9 percent in March.
“Unemployment dropped for all the wrong reasons,” says Craig Alexander, chief economist with TD Bank Financial Group. “It dropped because more workers stopped looking for jobs. It signaled less confidence and optimism that there are jobs out there.”
The participation rate peaked at 67.3 percent in 2000, reflecting an influx of women into the work force. It’s been falling steadily ever since.
Part of the drop reflects the baby boom generation’s gradual move into retirement. But such demographics aren't the whole answer.
Even Americans of prime working age – 25 to 54 years old – are dropping out of the workforce. Their participation rate fell to 81.1 percent last month, tied with November for the lowest since December 1984.
“It’s the lack of job opportunities – the lack of demand for workers – that is keeping these workers from working or seeking work,” says Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute. The Labor Department says there are still more than three unemployed people for every job opening.
Cynthia Marriott gave up her job search after an interview in October for a position as a hotel concierge.
“They never said no,” she says. “They just never called me back.”
Her husband hasn't worked full time since 2006. She cashed out her 401(k) after being laid off from a job at a Los Angeles entertainment publicity firm in 2009. The couple owes thousands in taxes for that withdrawal. They have no health insurance.
She got the maximum 99 weeks’ of unemployment benefits then allowed in California and then moved to Atlanta.
Now she is looking to receive federal disability benefits for a lung condition that she said leaves her weak and unable to work a full day. The application is pending a medical review.
“I feel like I have no choice,” says Marriott, 47. “It’s just really sad and frightening”
During the peak of her job search, Marriott was filling out 10 applications a day. She applied for jobs she felt overqualified for, such as those at Home Depot and Petco but never heard back. Eventually, the disappointment and fatigue got to her.
“I just wanted a job,” she says. “I couldn’t really go on anymore looking for a job.”
Young people are leaving the job market, too. The participation rate for Americans ages 20 to 24 hit a 41-year low 69.6 percent last year before bouncing back a bit. Many young people have enrolled in community colleges and universities. That’s one reason a record 63 percent of adults ages 25 to 29 have spent at least some time in college, according to the Pew Research Center.
Older Americans are returning to school, too. Doug Damato, who lives in Asheville, N.C., lost his job as an installer at a utility company in February 2012. He stopped looking for work last fall, when he began taking classes in mechanical engineering at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College.
Next week, Damato, 40, will accept an academic award for earning top grades. But one obstacle has emerged: Under a recent change in state law, his unemployment benefits will now end July 1, six months earlier than he expected.
Job seekers speak to representatives of employers at a job fair at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan on March 6, 2013 in New York City. (Photo: Getty Images)tt
He’s planning to work nights, if possible, to support himself once the benefits run out. Dropping out of school is “out of the question,” he said, given the time he has already put into the program.
“I don’t want a handout,” he says. “I’m trying to better myself.”
Many older Americans who lost their jobs are finding refuge in Social Security’s disability program. Nearly 8.9 million Americans are receiving disability checks, up 1.3 million from when the recession ended in June 2009.
Natasha Baebler’s journey out of the labor force and onto the disability rolls began when she lost her job serving disabled students and staff members at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., in February 2012.
For six months, she sought jobs in her field, brandishing master’s degrees in social education and counseling. No luck.
Then she just started looking for anything. Still, she had no takers.
“I chose to stop and take a step back for a while … After you've seen that amount of rejection,” she says, “you start thinking, `What’s going to make this time any different?’ ”
April 05, 2013
The lies of March
The Economy in the USA is really bad. Recessions happen they are on a cycle. America has suffered 11 recessions since the Great Depression. The average length of those previous recessions was 10 months, with the longest being 16 months. When Obama entered office, the recession was in its 13th month. So based on the previous, long-term pattern of the American economy, the recession would soon be over.
Unless you have no understanding of history or economics. Which the president of the Liberals does not have. His real skill set is campaigning, not leading.
Lets take a look at Huff Po: March Jobs Report: U.S. Economy Adds 88,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Down To 7.6 Percent. Which is a positive headline. It says "take heart! things are getting better", and if you were to stop at the headline, you would miss the following excerpt: Unemployment fell to 7.6 percent in March from 7.7 percent in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. But that was mainly due to 496,000 people leaving the labor force completely. The labor-force participation rate -- the percentage of people eligible to be working or looking for work -- fell to 63.3 percent, the lowest since 1979. Had that number simply held stable, the unemployment rate might have been higher.
People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels
Real March Unemployment Rate: 11.6%
fudging the labor force participation rate is how the Obama administration has managed to maintain the myth the economy has grown under his leadership for the past 4+ years.The economy has not improved by one bit since 2009!
Heading backward: The miserable March jobs report
The job market is still falling far short of predictions made by the Obama economic team back in 2009. Thanks to the $800 billion stimulus, the unemployment rate was supposed to have dropped to 5.1% by now.
Fewer people looking for work + Fewer Available Jobs = Lower Unemployment!
Unless you have no understanding of history or economics. Which the president of the Liberals does not have. His real skill set is campaigning, not leading.
Lets take a look at Huff Po: March Jobs Report: U.S. Economy Adds 88,000 Jobs; Unemployment Rate Down To 7.6 Percent. Which is a positive headline. It says "take heart! things are getting better", and if you were to stop at the headline, you would miss the following excerpt: Unemployment fell to 7.6 percent in March from 7.7 percent in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said. But that was mainly due to 496,000 people leaving the labor force completely. The labor-force participation rate -- the percentage of people eligible to be working or looking for work -- fell to 63.3 percent, the lowest since 1979. Had that number simply held stable, the unemployment rate might have been higher.
People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels
Real March Unemployment Rate: 11.6%
fudging the labor force participation rate is how the Obama administration has managed to maintain the myth the economy has grown under his leadership for the past 4+ years.The economy has not improved by one bit since 2009!
Heading backward: The miserable March jobs report
The job market is still falling far short of predictions made by the Obama economic team back in 2009. Thanks to the $800 billion stimulus, the unemployment rate was supposed to have dropped to 5.1% by now.
Fewer people looking for work + Fewer Available Jobs = Lower Unemployment!
April 04, 2013
President of the who exactly?
I came to that conclusion recently, after reading some very slanted editorials on KOS.
Remember when the left was all up in arms, simulating outrage about Bush shredding the law? Next time, try real dudgeon and not just politically convenient fake dudgeon.
Clinton, for as leftist as he was, still worked with Congress and provided Welfare reform and budgets that balanced.
Remember when the left was all up in arms, simulating outrage about Bush shredding the law? Next time, try real dudgeon and not just politically convenient fake dudgeon.
Clinton, for as leftist as he was, still worked with Congress and provided Welfare reform and budgets that balanced.
April 01, 2013
Hey! Consensus is not science...
Link to Source
The official watchdog that advises the Government on greenhouse gas emissions targets has launched an astonishing attack on The Mail on Sunday – for accurately reporting that alarming predictions of global warming are wrong.
We disclosed that although highly influential computer models are still estimating huge rises in world temperatures, there has been no statistically significant increase for more than 16 years.
Despite our revelation earlier this month, backed up by a scientifically researched graph, the Committee on Climate Change still clings to flawed predictions.
Leading the attack is committee member Sir Brian Hoskins, who is also director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College, London. In a blog on the Committee on Climate Change’s website, Sir Brian insisted: ‘The scientific basis for significant long-term climate risks remains robust, despite the points raised . . . Early and deep cuts in emissions are still required.’
He also claimed our report ‘misunderstood’ the value of computer models. Yet in an interview three years ago, Sir Brian conceded that when he started out as a climate scientist, the models were ‘pretty lousy, and they’re still pretty lousy, really’.
Our graph earlier this month was reproduced from a version first drawn by Dr Ed Hawkins, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Science. Last week it was reprinted as part of a four-page report in The Economist.
The accuracy of computer forecasts is vital because they influence politicians and their key environmental advisers on how urgently to act on climate change – and how many billions of pounds they take from the taxpayer in ‘green’ levies.
The climate may be heating up less in response to greenhouse-gas emissions than was once thought.
Twenty-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled.
A recap of failed policy that keeps moving forward.
The CDC now reports there are 110,197,000 venereal infections in the U.S. So much for sex-education? or maybe we just need to spend more money instead of looking at the program...
Fourth quarter GDP growth was 0.4% (historically this is barely growth).
The Dept. of Education reports 6.8 million fed student loans ($85 billion) are now in default.
The Society of Actuaries projects individual health claims cost will rise 32% under Obamacare.
The CBO says 7 million will lose their employer-based coverage (others say 3 -5 times that many) .
A third of U.S. doctors now plan to “retire” within the next decade. Gee, I wonder why.
At least the left can be satisfied on “important issues” like gay marriage...
Fourth quarter GDP growth was 0.4% (historically this is barely growth).
The Dept. of Education reports 6.8 million fed student loans ($85 billion) are now in default.
The Society of Actuaries projects individual health claims cost will rise 32% under Obamacare.
The CBO says 7 million will lose their employer-based coverage (others say 3 -5 times that many) .
A third of U.S. doctors now plan to “retire” within the next decade. Gee, I wonder why.
At least the left can be satisfied on “important issues” like gay marriage...
March 23, 2013
Killing business one year at a time.
I am currently looking for a job. Finding a full time position being offered is rare, in this part of the country. Part time jobs are all the rage.
Companies are trying to figure out what makes the most fiscal sense, when it comes to the Obamacare laws.
A Title I teaching assistant in the public school system mentioned that they've reclassified full time from 32 down to 30 hours. So what the school system has done is the whole entire support staff has been cut to 28 hours so they will not have to offer healthcare. Which means they will have to go to the state exchange or pay the IRS.
We are now being told to expect a jump in rates, 20% to 100%! This far exceeds what the CBO was given to score, back when the hard sell was going on. It was all based in fantasy. The reality is big cash or cut hours and jobs. Our already sluggish economy is going to hit spike strips...
As a self-employed accountant and financial analyst, Swanson has paid for her insurance coverage on the individual market for about 13 years. She watched her monthly premium climb from around $136 in 2001 to more than $600 before she could find cheaper coverage. She's frustrated that the overhaul may add to her bill.
Then there is the state run exchanges as well. I have no doubt these bureaucratic nightmares waiting to happen are going to be deified and vilified by we the people. The real winners are the States who do nothing and let the Fed come in and run things. The, so far inaccurate, Congressional Budget Office predicts a slow start overall, with only 7 million gaining coverage through the exchanges next year, rising to 24 million in 2016.
So the news is not good and getting worse. There are those who claim this will collapse into a single payer federal system. Lord help us all.
Companies are trying to figure out what makes the most fiscal sense, when it comes to the Obamacare laws.
A Title I teaching assistant in the public school system mentioned that they've reclassified full time from 32 down to 30 hours. So what the school system has done is the whole entire support staff has been cut to 28 hours so they will not have to offer healthcare. Which means they will have to go to the state exchange or pay the IRS.
We are now being told to expect a jump in rates, 20% to 100%! This far exceeds what the CBO was given to score, back when the hard sell was going on. It was all based in fantasy. The reality is big cash or cut hours and jobs. Our already sluggish economy is going to hit spike strips...
As a self-employed accountant and financial analyst, Swanson has paid for her insurance coverage on the individual market for about 13 years. She watched her monthly premium climb from around $136 in 2001 to more than $600 before she could find cheaper coverage. She's frustrated that the overhaul may add to her bill.
Then there is the state run exchanges as well. I have no doubt these bureaucratic nightmares waiting to happen are going to be deified and vilified by we the people. The real winners are the States who do nothing and let the Fed come in and run things. The, so far inaccurate, Congressional Budget Office predicts a slow start overall, with only 7 million gaining coverage through the exchanges next year, rising to 24 million in 2016.
So the news is not good and getting worse. There are those who claim this will collapse into a single payer federal system. Lord help us all.
March 13, 2013
More Obamacare bad news!
Obamacare has become the daily bad news generator. Clocking in at 2,700 pages, is this open-ended piece of legislation that allows the secretary of Health and Human Services and various bureaucracies to write the regulations on the fly. It is no wonder nobody really knows all that's in this bill and what's coming our way.
To start with we now find that the government estimates are off by 100%. The Original estimation in 2010 put the new tax burden at $569 billion. Now we have had a correction (?) to $1.058 trillion. Which makes a couple of points. Until the Fed starts using standard accounting practices, nothing money related will have any relationship to reality. Second, estimates by the government are a tool to sell something much more expensive, in sales this is the bait and switch...
Another bit of bad news, our pets get hit with Obamacare increases as well, thanks to the 2.3 percent device tax.
I like having nutritional information on my food. It does allow me to make better choices. However, some of the overreaching regulations now under Obamacare are going to cause havoc for the food biz, meaning we will be seeing higher costs.
So far we have the pre-existing conditions goodness also no more hoops for our older kids to be under insurance. We also have more expensive coverage with less quality.
March 11, 2013
Lies our Government tells.
Wow look at the news! The unemployment rate ticked downwards to a stellar 7.7%! This must mean that everyone has a job now and things are looking great! Obama can notch up another win!
Or so you would think reading this news from our main stream media... You have to dive for truth behind the numbers. Unemployment is defined as by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as people who do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the past four weeks, and are currently available for work. Also, people who were temporarily laid off and are waiting to be called back to that job are included in the unemployment statistics. The 7.7 percent is misleading at the surface, much more telling is the Labor Force Participation rate. Which is the percentage of working-age persons in an economy who are employed or unemployed but looking for a job. That number is 63.5% for February. This means there is a huge number of unemployed, much higher then 7.7%.
"The number of people with full-time jobs fell by 212,000, while 382,000 Americans took part-time jobs, thus producing the reported 170,000 gain in total employment (which includes everyone who worked at all). “Full-time-equivalent” (FTE) jobs, which we can approximate as the number of full-time jobs plus the number of part-time jobs divided by two, fell by 21,000."
Really does not look as rosy as our Journalists are reporting...? Not much cause for celebration.
The Labor force participation rate dropped in February. You can look at prognostication and ascribe meaning to any number. The fact remains people are out of work and jobs are scarce.
Or so you would think reading this news from our main stream media... You have to dive for truth behind the numbers. Unemployment is defined as by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as people who do not have a job, have actively looked for work in the past four weeks, and are currently available for work. Also, people who were temporarily laid off and are waiting to be called back to that job are included in the unemployment statistics. The 7.7 percent is misleading at the surface, much more telling is the Labor Force Participation rate. Which is the percentage of working-age persons in an economy who are employed or unemployed but looking for a job. That number is 63.5% for February. This means there is a huge number of unemployed, much higher then 7.7%.
"The number of people with full-time jobs fell by 212,000, while 382,000 Americans took part-time jobs, thus producing the reported 170,000 gain in total employment (which includes everyone who worked at all). “Full-time-equivalent” (FTE) jobs, which we can approximate as the number of full-time jobs plus the number of part-time jobs divided by two, fell by 21,000."
Really does not look as rosy as our Journalists are reporting...? Not much cause for celebration.
The Labor force participation rate dropped in February. You can look at prognostication and ascribe meaning to any number. The fact remains people are out of work and jobs are scarce.
March 06, 2013
Why Democrats Shouldn’t Eulogize Hugo Chavez (From Think Progress!)
Why Democrats Shouldn’t Eulogize Hugo Chavez: pRep. Jose E. Serrano (D-NY) released a statement today praising former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, despite the latter’s record of harsh crackdowns on his political opponents and state-sanctioned persecution against Venezuela’s Jewish population. Serrano tweeted a statement praising Chavez as an a champion of the oppressed, writing that “Hugo Chavez was a leader that understood [...]/p
March 03, 2013
Media .vs. Molestation
As a Catholic the various entertainment centers tend to continue with the molestation jokes to a disconcerting numbers. If one was to swallow the spin, you would think the pervasive number of molestation are instigated by the clergy and the Church has done nothing more then shield the perpetrators. This is a major falsehood.
First of all it is this bloggers opinion that ANYONE convicted of child molestation should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Further they should be regulated to make it nigh impossible for the crime to be repeated.
Notwithstanding the media hysteria over sex abuse in the Catholic Church, priests abuse at a rate far lower than that of other males. While even one case of abuse is too many, approximately only 4% of all active priests between 1950 and 2002 were even accused of abuse – a rate far lower than that of other males in the general population. Source, source.
You would never know it from the media's frenzied coverage, but the bulk of reported stories of sex abuse stem from a historical anomaly as the vast majority of allegations occurred only during the narrow band of time of the Sexual Revolution from the 1960s to the early 1980s. And despite media intimations of dark conspiracies and cover-ups, the Church merely followed the then-prevailing view of experts that offenders could be successfully rehabilitated and sent accused priests off treatment, rather than reporting them to police, which then resulted in a high rate of recidivism.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, the Catholic Church, following the then-prevailing societal practice, sent suspected abusers to psychologists rather than calling the police.
In this respect, the Church was far from alone. When the Church was sending accused priests to psychological treatment, "the criminal justice system was doing the very same thing with convicted offenders – sending them to treatment instead of prison." Source.
Yet in almost every media account, the media has failed to provide this important historical context that the Church was following the then-reigning advice of experts to send accused priests to treatment. Source.
Tragically, sending accused priests to treatment rather than reporting them to the police only resulted in a high rate of recidivism among those priests. According to the 2004 John Jay College report, 149 priests were "serial abusers" (10+ victims) and accounted for an alarming 26% of all of the abuse between 1950 and 2002. Source.
Yet these 149 men represent only one-tenth of one percent of all priests who served in the Catholic Church in the United States between 1950 and 2002. Most accused priests (56%) have been the subject of only one allegation.
First of all it is this bloggers opinion that ANYONE convicted of child molestation should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Further they should be regulated to make it nigh impossible for the crime to be repeated.
Notwithstanding the media hysteria over sex abuse in the Catholic Church, priests abuse at a rate far lower than that of other males. While even one case of abuse is too many, approximately only 4% of all active priests between 1950 and 2002 were even accused of abuse – a rate far lower than that of other males in the general population. Source, source.
You would never know it from the media's frenzied coverage, but the bulk of reported stories of sex abuse stem from a historical anomaly as the vast majority of allegations occurred only during the narrow band of time of the Sexual Revolution from the 1960s to the early 1980s. And despite media intimations of dark conspiracies and cover-ups, the Church merely followed the then-prevailing view of experts that offenders could be successfully rehabilitated and sent accused priests off treatment, rather than reporting them to police, which then resulted in a high rate of recidivism.
From the 1950s through the 1970s, the Catholic Church, following the then-prevailing societal practice, sent suspected abusers to psychologists rather than calling the police.
In this respect, the Church was far from alone. When the Church was sending accused priests to psychological treatment, "the criminal justice system was doing the very same thing with convicted offenders – sending them to treatment instead of prison." Source.
Yet in almost every media account, the media has failed to provide this important historical context that the Church was following the then-reigning advice of experts to send accused priests to treatment. Source.
Tragically, sending accused priests to treatment rather than reporting them to the police only resulted in a high rate of recidivism among those priests. According to the 2004 John Jay College report, 149 priests were "serial abusers" (10+ victims) and accounted for an alarming 26% of all of the abuse between 1950 and 2002. Source.
Yet these 149 men represent only one-tenth of one percent of all priests who served in the Catholic Church in the United States between 1950 and 2002. Most accused priests (56%) have been the subject of only one allegation.
March 01, 2013
Your government at work
U.S. economy grew 0.1% in fourth quarter
http://www.marketwatch.com/sto...
Personal assets crash 22% under Obama
http://washingtonexaminer.com/...
Obama Government Equal to Population in 1776
http://www.whitehousedossier.c...
Obama's EPA Kills Texas Power Plant and 3900
http://washingtonexaminer.com/...
HHS Adds $9.1 Billion in New Regs in Just 4 Days
http://dailycaller.com/2013/01...
State Department Delays Keystone Pipeline Decision
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/...
At this pace, the U.S. won’t get back to full employment until 2022
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Latest Obamacare casualty: 100 workers at Smith & Nephew
http://www.washingtontimes.com...
Supermarkets cry foul as FDA proposes new food labeling rule under ObamaCare
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
Despite court ruling, EPA raises biofuel estimate
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
Obamacare red tape burden: 127,602,371 hours yearly
http://washingtonexaminer.com/...
GAO Report: Obamacare Adds $6.2 Trillion to Long-Term Deficit
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
Study: $15.8 billion in possible new regulations for February
http://dailycaller.com/2013/02...
States Cutting Employee Hours to Avoid Obamacare Costs
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G...
New England fishermen protest federal regulations in letter to Congress
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
ObamaCare Forces Universal to Drop Insurance for Part-Timers
http://www.orlandosentinel.com...
Price of Gallon of Gas Up 96% Under Obama
http://cnsnews.com/news/articl...
Bypassing Congress Forthcoming regulation likely means no new coal-fired power plants will be built in the United States
http://www.usnews.com/news/art...
Worst recovery Ever
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/...
February 27, 2013
Regulate Journalists.
I'm changing my mind about Government Regulation. Let's have Journalists all register. That way they can be editorially monitored. Because the partisan ideology coming out of or Main Stream Media is putting people in danger of loosing their wealth.
February 26, 2013
How to destroy decent healthcare.
I have heard it said that we need to pay more for teachers to entice the best and the brightest to educate our kids, teens, young adults etc... Although, we have a crappy system for the money we spend. Like nearly everything, the Federal government cannot run things very well.
Now with Obama-care, we will have more expensive healthcare that is worse then ever before. Originally touted at the bargain price of 900billion we find that the GAO has the program running a much higher deficit 6.2 Trillion to be exact.
So out comes the media attacking the real(?) cost of healthcare... The Doctors. Yes, you see the doctors are in it for the money, when they should be doing it for humanitarian reasons... Who the hell thinks this stuff up? They have no clue.
Time magazine started the ball rolling with a huge article saying how screwed over we are, and it is correct in some parts. Taking the free market out of health care raises the cost. Obama-care cannot do much more then make things worse. As if this 11 pager were not enough. Along comes SLATE blaming those greedy doctors.
As if the best way to better healthcare is regulate doctors salaries...
Now with Obama-care, we will have more expensive healthcare that is worse then ever before. Originally touted at the bargain price of 900billion we find that the GAO has the program running a much higher deficit 6.2 Trillion to be exact.
So out comes the media attacking the real(?) cost of healthcare... The Doctors. Yes, you see the doctors are in it for the money, when they should be doing it for humanitarian reasons... Who the hell thinks this stuff up? They have no clue.
Time magazine started the ball rolling with a huge article saying how screwed over we are, and it is correct in some parts. Taking the free market out of health care raises the cost. Obama-care cannot do much more then make things worse. As if this 11 pager were not enough. Along comes SLATE blaming those greedy doctors.
As if the best way to better healthcare is regulate doctors salaries...
Quotes from American leaders in Berlin
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." ~R. Reagan
"Ich bin ein Berliner." ~J. F. Kennedy.
"In America, you have a right to be stupid" ~J. Kerry
Is it me or does the last quote seem lacking? Or maybe it sounds good to the benevolent people of "Kyrzakhstan"...
Sometimes, I think we can put a fork in the USA...
"Ich bin ein Berliner." ~J. F. Kennedy.
"In America, you have a right to be stupid" ~J. Kerry
Is it me or does the last quote seem lacking? Or maybe it sounds good to the benevolent people of "Kyrzakhstan"...
Sometimes, I think we can put a fork in the USA...
February 23, 2013
Global Temperature Standstill Gains IPCC Support
Global Temperature Standstill Gains IPCC Support
"The GWPF points out that Dr Pachauri’s assertion that it will take a temperature standstill of “30-40 years at least” to affect theories of man-made global warming is without a scientific basis. “The 17-year standstill already strains climate models, and if it continues for much longer it will demonstrate that the climate models on which the IPCC has based its assumptions are inadequate,” Dr Whitehouse said."
"The GWPF points out that Dr Pachauri’s assertion that it will take a temperature standstill of “30-40 years at least” to affect theories of man-made global warming is without a scientific basis. “The 17-year standstill already strains climate models, and if it continues for much longer it will demonstrate that the climate models on which the IPCC has based its assumptions are inadequate,” Dr Whitehouse said."
February 17, 2013
February 16, 2013
So that is what is wrong with the US.
If only he was Emperor all our problems would be solved! Brilliant!
February 11, 2013
February 09, 2013
Somethings happening here.
What it is isn't exactly clear...
Christopher Dorner is one sick, criminal individual. If you follow the headlines he made some tragic ones.
He posted his reasons Link. This has caused quite a ruckus among the liberals who have been so quick to jump on the blame righty band wagon. Which leads Michelle Malkin to ask: "Question: What will this rabid Blame Righty mob do now that an alleged triple-murderer has singled out prominent lefties in the media and Hollywood for fawning praise as part of his crazed manifesto advocating cop-killing?"
"There could hardly be a more obvious example of media hypocrisy and biased selectivity".~ Tom Blumer. Who rightly points out AP's lack of coverage of this angle.
"Of course, the liberal figures praised by Dorner had nothing to do with his crimes. Yet Times journalists have linked conservative media personalities and the Tea Party to crimes they had no link to at all, not even very tenuous ones as in Dornan's rant." ~Clay Waters. Has a similer take on the NYT lack of journalistic integrity.
"So, we’re supposed to think Dorner is a garden-variety disturbed individual going on a shooting spree, and while that is true, it's pretty clear from his manifesto that he has has liberal affinities, which some in the media seem to be hesitant to document in their reports." ~ Matt Vespa. Who takes issue with PBS on the same subject.
One would think that vain attempts to tie killings to the right is noble and denying more obvious connections likewise. If anyone out there doubts the leanings of our informational sources. This screams loudly!
Doug Powers over at Michelle Malkins blog offers this question:
Q: What makes someone who politicizes shootings call for a temporary moratorium on politicizing shootings?
A: When the person who pulled the trigger writes a manifesto saying he’s a fan:
Shocking to see how many gun rights tweeters think this shocking LA cop-killer’s manifesto is something to joke about. It’s not.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 7, 2013
The LA cop-killer murder spree has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with deranged criminality. I hope they catch him asap.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 7, 2013
Yes, the man who thinks Sarah Palin owes Gabby Giffords an apology and that the NRA is responsible for Adam Lanza’s actions suddenly doesn’t want to politicize a shooting. What gives?
A bizarre manifesto by Dr. Dorner was first published by KTLA-TV, where he praised President Obama and his gun control efforts, along with media that touted those efforts, such as Morgan.
“[G]ive Piers Morgan an indefinite resident alien and Visa card,” the manifesto reads. “Mr. Morgan, the problem that many American gun owners have with you and your continuous discussion of gun control is that you are not an American citizen and have an accent that is distinct and clarifies that you are a foreigner. I want you to know that I agree with you 100% on enacting stricter firearm laws …. If you had [sic] a well regulated AWB [assault weapons ban], this would not happen. The time is now to reinstate a ban that will save lives. Why does any sportsman need a 30 round magazine for hunting? Why does anyone need a suppressor? Why does anyone need a AR15 rifle?"
Christopher Dorner is one sick, criminal individual. If you follow the headlines he made some tragic ones.
He posted his reasons Link. This has caused quite a ruckus among the liberals who have been so quick to jump on the blame righty band wagon. Which leads Michelle Malkin to ask: "Question: What will this rabid Blame Righty mob do now that an alleged triple-murderer has singled out prominent lefties in the media and Hollywood for fawning praise as part of his crazed manifesto advocating cop-killing?"
"There could hardly be a more obvious example of media hypocrisy and biased selectivity".~ Tom Blumer. Who rightly points out AP's lack of coverage of this angle.
"Of course, the liberal figures praised by Dorner had nothing to do with his crimes. Yet Times journalists have linked conservative media personalities and the Tea Party to crimes they had no link to at all, not even very tenuous ones as in Dornan's rant." ~Clay Waters. Has a similer take on the NYT lack of journalistic integrity.
"So, we’re supposed to think Dorner is a garden-variety disturbed individual going on a shooting spree, and while that is true, it's pretty clear from his manifesto that he has has liberal affinities, which some in the media seem to be hesitant to document in their reports." ~ Matt Vespa. Who takes issue with PBS on the same subject.
One would think that vain attempts to tie killings to the right is noble and denying more obvious connections likewise. If anyone out there doubts the leanings of our informational sources. This screams loudly!
Doug Powers over at Michelle Malkins blog offers this question:
Q: What makes someone who politicizes shootings call for a temporary moratorium on politicizing shootings?
A: When the person who pulled the trigger writes a manifesto saying he’s a fan:
Shocking to see how many gun rights tweeters think this shocking LA cop-killer’s manifesto is something to joke about. It’s not.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 7, 2013
The LA cop-killer murder spree has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with deranged criminality. I hope they catch him asap.
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) February 7, 2013
Yes, the man who thinks Sarah Palin owes Gabby Giffords an apology and that the NRA is responsible for Adam Lanza’s actions suddenly doesn’t want to politicize a shooting. What gives?
A bizarre manifesto by Dr. Dorner was first published by KTLA-TV, where he praised President Obama and his gun control efforts, along with media that touted those efforts, such as Morgan.
“[G]ive Piers Morgan an indefinite resident alien and Visa card,” the manifesto reads. “Mr. Morgan, the problem that many American gun owners have with you and your continuous discussion of gun control is that you are not an American citizen and have an accent that is distinct and clarifies that you are a foreigner. I want you to know that I agree with you 100% on enacting stricter firearm laws …. If you had [sic] a well regulated AWB [assault weapons ban], this would not happen. The time is now to reinstate a ban that will save lives. Why does any sportsman need a 30 round magazine for hunting? Why does anyone need a suppressor? Why does anyone need a AR15 rifle?"
Morgan would have written the same things he did in the Tweets above if the suspected killer had expressed support for the Tea Party or had voiced agreement with Rush Limbaugh, right?
Everybody mentioned in the “manifesto,” including Morgan, obviously aren’t to blame for the killings (unless we apply Morgan’s usual reasoning — or lack thereof). If only this particular situation were enough to make Morgan recognize the glaring flaw in his thinking. It won’t be enough — because what Morgan does isn’t thinking, it’s raw political opportunism that has been forced to take a brief hiatus.
February 08, 2013
SPLC to get Sarah Palin treatment any day now
SPLC to get Sarah Palin treatment any day now
"I mean, you have anactual shooting in the culture war — an actual shooting — and you dismiss this aspect of the story as a “detail” that is “sure to reignite the culture wars”? The gall. The chutzpah. The …. hypocrisy of our media. The story doesn’t mention, by the way, that the shooter had a list with other groups whose names he got from the Southern Poverty Law Center."
"I mean, you have anactual shooting in the culture war — an actual shooting — and you dismiss this aspect of the story as a “detail” that is “sure to reignite the culture wars”? The gall. The chutzpah. The …. hypocrisy of our media. The story doesn’t mention, by the way, that the shooter had a list with other groups whose names he got from the Southern Poverty Law Center."
February 07, 2013
Myths that people use to scare us. Overpopulation
Phase 1) ‘What could it hurt?’: China implements one-child policy
Phase 2) ‘How were we supposed to know?’: China runs out of workers
Attention West! Your turn is coming as even Slate has finally figured out. So those of you enthusiasts for birth control worried about “overpopulation” should really familiarize yourself with reality. The first reality is this:
The second reality is that, as you age and become an expensive burden to the rising generation, you will have abundant opportunity to think globally and act locally–or rather be acted upon locally–by becoming an unwilling recruit in the Human Extinction Movement, courtesy of government and health care bean counters who will be comfy with snuffing you when the cost/benefit analyses are not longer in favor of you being alive. I’m giving myself about a 50/50 chance of dying naturally. Odds are pretty good that if I live long enough to require elder care, somebody from the hospital staff going to slip something in my IV to make life easier on the hospital accounting department.
Thanks Mark Shea.
February 05, 2013
Origins of Planned Parenthood (aka Murder Inc.)
Original by Tiffany Gabbay
There are few chapters in history more bereft of humanity than the Holocaust, where Adolf Hitler sought to implement his “final solution” by way of mass genocide. What most do not realize, however, is that Eugenics, as a social movement and scientific application, was actually part of the American landscape long before it reached Germany.
In fact, American academia’s advocacy, and later the country’s use of genetic manipulation to purge society of its “undesirables” inspired the fuhrer.
In practice, Eugenicists’ first order of business in the late 18th and early 19th century was to identify society’s “degenerates.” Those deemed undesirable ranged from the mentally ill, handicapped, and the physically disabled (this included the blind and deaf), to the poor and uneducated, promiscuous women, homosexuals and certain racial groups — particularly Jews and blacks.
Once the unfit groups were sufficiently identified, institutionalization and euthanasia were two Eugenics-driven approaches to “solve the problem.” Advocates of the practice marketed it as a humane way to end suffering and ensure a fit and “healthy” society prevailed.
While even Alexander Graham Bell and Leonard Darwin (Charles Darwin’s son) sat on the earliest International Congress of Eugenics in 1912, it was Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich’s adoption of the practice that took this dark art and plunged it into unspeakable depths of depravity and barbarism.
Hitlers’ was the most “successful” Eugenics campaign to date, and began with something as rudimentary as a ”caliper” test to assess the broadness of one’s nose. To the Nazis, broad-noses equated to ethnic “inferiority” — in other words: ”life unworthy of life.” That sum comprised 6 million Jews, nearly 3 million Poles, an estimated 1 million Romany-gypsies, 15,000 homosexuals, at least 300,000 institutionalized disabled men, women and children and 400,000 more who were spared only to be forcibly sterilized.
Others erased from existence were Africans who had been brought to Germany by the French during the Allied occupation in World War I — many of whom married German women and produced what Hitler called the “Rhineland Bastards.”
The fuhrer laid out his plan in Mein Kampf, stating he would eliminate these “insults” on the German nation. Under the stewardship of Dr. Eugen Fischer, a group called “Commission Number 3″ was created to organize the forced sterilization of the Rhineland Bastards through Germany’s ”Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring.”
Throughout their crusade, the Nazis showed neither remorse nor mercy, and always presented their ethnic cleansing, just as the Americans had done before them, as a means for good. By ridding Germans of the societal, financial and, ultimately, genetic burden of the “undesirable,” and by ridding the undesirables of their “miserable” existence, the Germans maintained that theirs was actually an act of virtue.
Far from the shores of the Rhineland and some years prior to the Holocaust, however, Eugenics advocate Woodrow Wilson signed into law a sterilization act, and the following year Theodore Roosevelt wrote of the need to improve “racial qualities.” Even Calvin Coolidge, along with author Arthur Calhoun, acknowledged the role Eugenic-driven procreation would play “in the new social order.”
In “The Dark Roots of Eugenics,” Dr. Dennis L. Cuddy wrote that philanthropists like Andrew Carnegie and the Rockefeller family all financially buoyed the movement, and in the early 20th century John D. Rockefeller himself introduced Margaret Sanger – the founder of Planned Parenthood — to the rainmakers who would bankroll her Birth Control League.
Initially, this organization was not designed so much to empower women but as a vehicle for propping up the practice of Eugenics. Sanger was a staunch admirer of the Nazis, often incorporating articles from Nazi-doctors into her monthly publication, “The Birth Control Review.” Her own article, “A Race of Thoroughbreds,” offered sweeping praise of Eugenics and strongly condemned a society where the inferior were allowed to dwell.
In the end, through compulsory laws, some 60,000 people were sterilized in the U.S., rendering untold generations extinguished from future existence.
One author who has written extensively on this dark chapter in America history is Edwin Black, who appeared on Monday evening’s Glenn Beck Program to discuss the twisted practice and why he believes it could be poised to rear its ugly head once more. Black, whose parents were Holocaust survivors, also explained how Hitler was inspired by the Americans in this disturbing arena.
America’s drone wars are not creating a safer world | CatholicHerald.co.uk
America’s drone wars are not creating a safer world | CatholicHerald.co.uk
"Researchers at the Stanford Law School and New York University’s School of Law estimated that from June 2004 to mid-September 2012 drone attacks in Pakistan killed 2,593 to 3,365 people; 474 to 884 were civilians, including at least 176 children, and 1,249 to 1,389 people were injured"
"Researchers at the Stanford Law School and New York University’s School of Law estimated that from June 2004 to mid-September 2012 drone attacks in Pakistan killed 2,593 to 3,365 people; 474 to 884 were civilians, including at least 176 children, and 1,249 to 1,389 people were injured"
Obamacare is about revenue?
How much money does the Government need? More then it has...
You see no matter how much money you send, they will spend more. If your a president stuck with a Congress that tightens the purse strings, you could run a surplus. If your a President who increases the size of Government with a willing Congress. Then then you have a debit ceiling limit that should cost representatives their jobs if they vote to increase.
If your fiscally irresponsible you raise that limit on a whim, crank up the spending, and never speak about things like 'budgets' even if they are legally required. After all the Government should not be bound by things like laws and the Constitution or Rights. These outdated concepts just get in the way...
So word is out on Obamacare. If your a family of five on the lower end of the pay scale and do not have insurance you will pony up $ 20,000.00 a year or face a tax of $ 2,400.00.
You get that? 20k or 2400.00 tax. What does that tax get you? Less money for you more for the Government. Yup, it is just a garnishment of wages with nothing to show.
If your one of the 15 to 18 States that will have one of the exchanges set up, you may be able to purchase insurance at Government controlled prices ($ 20,000.00) sometime in October for Jan 1, 2014. So far no State is ready, so be prepared for a bureaucratic mess of Biblical proportions.
You may be included in Medi-whatever, in which case, good luck finding a Doctor that will accept you.
What a mess.
You see no matter how much money you send, they will spend more. If your a president stuck with a Congress that tightens the purse strings, you could run a surplus. If your a President who increases the size of Government with a willing Congress. Then then you have a debit ceiling limit that should cost representatives their jobs if they vote to increase.
If your fiscally irresponsible you raise that limit on a whim, crank up the spending, and never speak about things like 'budgets' even if they are legally required. After all the Government should not be bound by things like laws and the Constitution or Rights. These outdated concepts just get in the way...
So word is out on Obamacare. If your a family of five on the lower end of the pay scale and do not have insurance you will pony up $ 20,000.00 a year or face a tax of $ 2,400.00.
You get that? 20k or 2400.00 tax. What does that tax get you? Less money for you more for the Government. Yup, it is just a garnishment of wages with nothing to show.
If your one of the 15 to 18 States that will have one of the exchanges set up, you may be able to purchase insurance at Government controlled prices ($ 20,000.00) sometime in October for Jan 1, 2014. So far no State is ready, so be prepared for a bureaucratic mess of Biblical proportions.
You may be included in Medi-whatever, in which case, good luck finding a Doctor that will accept you.
What a mess.
February 04, 2013
Jobs in the USA and Government Obfuscation
Lets check out the Main Stream Media's latest stories about the job market:
AP
AP
AP
Bloomberg
Reuters
CNBC
NYT
Somehow none of these sources reported that employment declined in January 2013. Which amount to around 2.84 million. Note the phrase "Seasonal adjustment" is not used. Yes, that is odd...
The unemployment rate is 8.5 percent in January. Which is only .03 below January 2012..
So what is the real scoop?
Let's just say that the MSM does not understand the difference between raw and seasonally adjusted figures. After all it isn't like their jobs depend upon that...
AP
AP
AP
Bloomberg
Reuters
CNBC
NYT
Somehow none of these sources reported that employment declined in January 2013. Which amount to around 2.84 million. Note the phrase "Seasonal adjustment" is not used. Yes, that is odd...
The unemployment rate is 8.5 percent in January. Which is only .03 below January 2012..
So what is the real scoop?
- Overall: 157K SA, -2.84 million NSA; January's actual job loss was worse than the 2.635 million seen in January 2012 which generated a 311K seasonally adjusted result. This looks like deterioration to me, not improvement. It also appears, looking at the three preceding years, that January's 157K SA figure could easily and justifiably been as low as 100K.
- Private sector: +166K SA, -2.345 million NSA; again much worse than the -2.155 million seen in January 2012, and again with the seasonally adjusted number arguably overstated by 50K or more.
- Health care: +23K SA, -57K NSA; the actual decline in January 2012 was far less (-36K), perhaps indicating that health care employment averaged over 12 months might be close to hitting a plateau.
- Retail: +33K SA, -592K NSA; in this 2013's actual decline is worse than each of the past three years by 19K-32K. If retail stops adding people over time, look out below.
- Construction: +28K SA, -272K NSA; this one's a real head-scratcher as to why we should be impressed. Contstruction employment is just over 100,000 greater than it was a year ago, and (seasonally adjusted) is still over (23 percent) below its January 2008 value of peak of 7.476 million. At that rate, it will take about 15 years for construction employment to get back to where it was.
- Manufacturing: +4K SA, -90K NSA; the NSA number is worse than both 2012 (-65K) and 2011 (-80K). In the past 12 months, seasonally adjusted manufacturing employment is up by 109K, or just under 1 percent.
Let's just say that the MSM does not understand the difference between raw and seasonally adjusted figures. After all it isn't like their jobs depend upon that...
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