Why I hate abortion.

I have been holding off on this topic for a long time, but I think it is time to go full-force: My husband could have (and, by some standards, should have) been aborted.

Christine was 17 when she found out she was pregnant. She went to a very strict Catholic school, and he was the eldest of 5 brothers. He was already heavily dependent on alcohol and he was probably a drug user by that point, too. Three strikes, already: she was too young to deal with the consequences of parenthood, he was a role model for his younger brothers, and the baby might be deformed from his dad's drug and alcohol usage. Not to mention that in the early 80's, no one was standing outside of Planned Parenthood and preaching about God's love for the unborn - there wasn't enough publicity about abortion yet. My own mom took a friend to an abortion clinic in the late 70's because she had no clue what it really was (they left as soon as they understood). It makes me sick to think that this is the exact circumstance that pro-choice activists would promote as the ideal situation for a woman to 'take control of her own body' and have an abortion. What sick-o conservative would want this poor teenage woman to have to deal with the consequences of one night of fun?
Me. I would. Chris and Paul Sr. married and had two more children. It didn't end up all rosy - Paul Sr. was a great daddy, but he still had to battle his addictions; and when they divorced a few years later Chris had to support the children on her own. The consequences of that 'one night of fun' still impact the family today, every day. Paul passed away a few years ago from complications of a lifetime of alcohol abuse. Chris still deals with side-affects from the daily stress of her 20's.
Paul II is the best thing that ever happened to me. My mother-in-law and I don't have the best relationship in the world, but I am daily indebted to her for choosing life. If you are considering abortion as a way to end your problems, please - don't just think about your life. Think about your growing child's life. Think about all the thousands of people he or she will touch as he or she grows up. Think about your child's children, and how happy you will be to see them sitting on their daddy's knee in 30 years.

Think about the people like me, and how radically different my life would be if that scared 17 year old girl hadn't chosen life in the spring of '82.

Does 'Illegal' Mean Anything to You?

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/16-illegals-sue-arizona-rancher/

This guy has a ranch on the Mexico/Arizona border. Arizona has the Castle Doctrine. When he finds illegal (read that again: illegal) aliens on his property, he doesn't shoot them; he rounds them up and turns them in to the authorities. Over 12,000 since 1998. The illegal aliens he hasn't gotten to in time have destroyed his fences and equipment, killed his cattled, and broken in to his home. They have left trails of trash [human feces, plastic bottles (some of the cattle have died from ingesting the bottles), used diapers, drug paraphanalia] up to 10 inches deep.

Now he is being sued by 16 illegal aliens for violating their civil rights. Not for killing anyone or physically harming them. For defending his American property from people who had no legal (or other) right to be there. Oh yeah, and 'emotional distress.' All to the tune of $32 million.

Your thoughts?

Less thank two weeks. Thanks, American Majority.

• President-elect Obama has said that his proposed stimulus legislation will create or save 3 million jobs. This means that this legislation will spend about $275,000 per job. The average household income in the U.S. is $42,000 a year.

• This bill provides enough spending to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700.

• This bill will cost each and every household $6,700 in additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.

Just some fun facts. Thank you, Glennbeck.com.

God, give me grace.

I'm really not excited about these next four years. Honestly, I wish our president the best. For the good of our nation, I hope he doesn't fall into his old, polar-liberal ways. I hope awesome things are accomplished. I don't foresee that actually happening, but a girl can hope.
I'm tired of pretending I'm okay with liberalism. I have great friends who currently (proudly) consider themselves to be liberal. I say currently because I have a feeling they're going to grow up eventually and realize that being an adult means taking responsibility for your actions, not relying so heavily on the government to bail you out (I'm not talking about on a corporate level), and sometimes it even means assisting other people in not relying on DC to meet all their needs/wants. You can tell a parent really loves her son when she boots his butt out of the house and makes him look for a job. 'It's time to grow up,' she'll tell him. 'Go get a job. I'm not going to be your enabler anymore. I love you enough to be tough on you right now.' It's not cruel to make someone stop receiving welfare checks after 10 (50?) years. It's giving that person the push to get out there and do something when they clearly didn't have the initiative to do it on their own.
I look forward to the day when these liberal friends of mine wake up and go, 'CRAP! I've really screwed myself over. I'm 35, and I'm paying so many taxes that I can't move up anymore! I'll be stuck right here for the rest of my life.' Isn't the American dream to be better off (financially, emotionally, spiritually, etc) than the previous generation? How on EARTH will that happen now? I guess it's okay to give up on the American dream when, suddenly, everything 'American' is considered bad? I don't want my friends to feel pain and bitterness when they realize they've ruined their children's chance at happiness, but I'm looking forward to having them cross back over to conservativism - even if that means waiting for it all to fall apart. When it falls apart, that's when people will re-evaluate where we are. Go back to their roots. Remember that the Truth really does matter.
I don't want conservativism to be a dirty word anymore. I don't even like the term 'compassionate conservativism,' because that implies that I, as a conservative, am not generally compassionate. Isn't that the ground-work of being morally based? Love for others? Not in the conservativism we've seen for the past few years. There has been nothing 'conservative' about the last few candidates the Republican party has paraded in front of us. Maybe they vote conservatively, but I want someone who lives conservatively. Guiliani? I would have voted for him just to feel safe at night. I'm a little afraid Biden was being a bit prophetic. But the guy didn't exactly carry his conservative over to his personal/romantic life. McCain? He didn't seem to care too much about abortion, either way. I'm a huge fan of Palin, but I don't mind waiting a few years to get to know her better. Am I being too picky? Perhaps. Or maybe we've just given in, little by little, to this liberal way of thought that 'You stay out of my life, I'll stay out of yours - just give the government all your money, and we'll be fine. Also, hand over your morals, 'cause you won't be needing those anymore.'
I'm kind of glad we have 4 years to regroup. McCain just wasn't going to cut it. I don't know who decided he could run on the Republican ticket - they should be kicked out. Maybe 3 years from now, we'll learn that the Republican party has either disolved or gone back to being the voice of conservatism. If one of those two things fails to happen, I'll never again tell anyone I'm voting R-MO.

In your face, liberalism

Today, I sent out an e-mail to all my clients inviting them to the office Christmas open house. Yes, I said Christmas. Not Holiday Event, not Winter Celebration, not even Kwanzaa/Hanukkah/christmas Get-together. The subject line was actually 'Christmas Open House,' and I said Christmas at least two times in the message. I figured that's what my office calendar said, and that's what I'm going to be celebrating.
Why do we shy away from what the majority has embraced? I wouldn't be offended if I lived in Israel and someone wished me a great Hanukkah. I wouldn't even reply with 'And a Merry Christmas to you, too!' THAT might be offensive. I'm pretty dang proud of my country, and I'm concerned with people being embarrassed by our heritage of Christianity. When I have my very own office, I plan on putting up some sort of baby-Jesus something-or-another at Christmastime. And some sort of resurrection something-or-another at Easter-time. Isn't that the purpose of the holiday? If you have a problem with the holiday, you should probably go to work that day. That isn't hate-mongering...that's logic. How can you justify being offended by the name of Jesus, and then take a day (or 5) off work in His Name? That makes no sense to me.
When did we get to the point when Christmas (er, Winter-time) Concerts couldn't mention Jesus, but spent 30 minutes on global warming?
I'm home schooling.

Plan B?

Has anyone heard about this? It is called 'Plan B.' It sounds JUST like a morning-after pill, but it claims to be non-abortive...but then never backs up that claim with facts. Just, 'Trust us. We don't kill babies.' Maybe I just haven't researched enough. Maybe I'm a married woman who is very vocal about being anti-abortion, so maybe people just haven't talked about this around me. Is this new? Have you heard of this before? How can something 'prevent pregnancy' after sex without being abortive? I mean, I'm not an idiot - there is a certain amount of time between ejaculation and conception...but this website claims there are a few DAYS between sex and pregnancy.

Are they just defining pregnancy as something different? Refusing responsibility, like the whole 'That's above my pay grade' thing? 'Perhaps pregnancy begins a few days after conception - it isn't really a baby when the egg and sperm unite. At that point, it's just a cluster of cells, so our pill isn't abortive.'

Are the makers of this pill preying on women who are so terrified from making the decision to have unprotected sex, women who maybe have previously been against the idea abortion, that they're hoping by saying 'We don't kill babies...we just protect you from pregnancy up to a few days after unprotected sex!' that those women will turn off reason and blindly accept their pill (horrible run on sentence; I apologize)?

Maybe I'm just an old fuddy-duddy conservative who idiotically relies on old concepts to define her beliefs, but I'm pretty sure that ANY 'emergency contraceptive' is abortive. Am I missing something? Please tell me if I am. But please support your comment with facts (I always appreciate links to studies or reputable websites).

A bunch of stuff.

I have had a really hard time defending John McCain. He is not, and has never been, a true conservative. I, however, am. It is easy to defend something you believe in. I really think that's why he didn't win. Liberals could honestly pin all of their trust on Barak Obama - he is, and always has been, a true liberal. That's fine - I can actually respect that. Being who you say you are. I was really not looking forward to four years of defending the decisions of someone with whom I don't completely agree. Sen. McCain is a centrist. He ran his campaign (what there was of a campaign) on 'reaching across party lines.' Okay, if that will get a more conservative bill passed...I guess I'm okay with that. But reaching across the aisle to pass something I never really supported in the first place? Nope. Can't go there.

I want someone who will speak for those who can't speak for themselves. Abortion is a HUGE issue for me. I've never pretended that it wasn't. Gov. Palin said she would work to convince Sen. McCain to be more vigilant about giving a voice to pre-born babies...But I want a president who already knows how disgusting abortion is. McCain has never represented my ideals.
Ideals. I've heard that my generation tends to be a bunch of idealist, and therefore they vote more liberally. They want the government to help people who can't/haven't helped themselves. You know what? I'm an idealist. Ideally, I want the government to do its job of defending the constitution. It's pretty black and white. Keep the ball rolling. Go by the book. The cases that slip through the cracks? That's where the church comes in. Ideally, again, the church will pick up the pieces that the government leaves behind. All those stories President Elect Obama brought up in his infomercial? If the church were doing her job, and the government doing its job...these things would be taken care of. Instead, we have a government stepping into the role of the church because really - who tythes anymore? If every church-goer (the real ones, not even the Christmas/Easter/MykidissickandI'mscared attenders) would give God His 10%, we wouldn't need communism to cover the ones who slip through the cracks. So yes, I'm an idealist. That's why I'm a conservative.

It has been said that President Elect Obama is going to rule as a centrist. If so, I'm there. I have always respected the office of the president. I hope to stay true to this and exibit how to show respect without always agreeing with the president. I am not excited about the next four years. I am excited about how these next four years will shape conservatives, but I'm not excited about cleaning up after it is over with. If Sen. Obama does what he said he would do (bring the country together by being more of a centrist), we shouldn't have any problems. The most lasting things this man can do are appoint ultra-liberal judges and make poor decisions in the face of terrorism. Both could make a devistating impact.

95% of Black Americans voted for Sen. Obama. That statistic does not mean that 95% of Black Americans are racist. To say that would mean that every White American who voted for Sen. McCain was racist. Some on each side voted purely because they agreed with their candidate's politics. But I heard more than one Black American say that they were voting for Sen. Obama purely because of the color of his skin - that, my friends, is the definition of racism.
rac·ism
Pronunciation:
\ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi-\
Function:
noun
Date:
1933
1 : a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
By the way, Webster's Dictionary doesn't list reverse-racism. That is because there is no such word. You are either a racist or you are not. The definition says nothing about believing that white people are superior. It says that 'race is the primary determination of human traits.' A race. Any race. I find it pathetic that someone would vote based on the color of a candidate's skin, especially if they don't agree with anything that candidate stands for.

I don't hate Sen. Obama. I can't stand it when Christians say that. It's ridiculous - how can you hate someone you've never met? I hate what he stands for and what he refuses to stand for. I hate hypocricy and racism. I hate change for the sake of change. I think it is silly to elect someone who hasn't been around long enough to prove anything except that he is the farthest leaning anything (liberal OR conservative).

I've said enough. Maybe next time I'll explain why abortion is so important for me.