A Salute to Our Veterans

Commentary--

As a U.S. Naval veteran of the Korean Era, I wish to salute all veterans of all of our wars. Of the several jobs I held after discharge, I consider the most valued of all, and one which I did with pride, was the five years I spent as a job counselor for returning Viet-Nam Veterans. I counseled men with a variety of missing limbs, hands, and miscellaneous prosthetic devices. Some were understandably bitter, having returned to hateful anti-war demonstrators, but others demonstrated positive attitudes, as they returned to the job of finding work and starting or continuing with their families.

On this Memorial Day, 2012, I am seeing the Viet-Nam Veteran beginning to receive the public acknowledgement of his service, which had been denied for so long. Today, Viet-Nam veterans occupy many leadership positions in industry and government.

Sadly, today, some universities, and public schools, along with much of the news media, portray our current service men and women as less than honorable and deny them the respect that is rightfully theirs.

I hope the future bodes much better for our returning service men and women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Former Attorney General Phill Kline seeks recusal of two Kansas justices

As I mentioned in the previous post, I have been following this story since 2007, when I began blogging. And as I also said, sooner or later the truth will come out about the corruption of the pro-choice, i.e., the abortion supporters in Kansas. And that time is near.

Kline seeks recusal of two Kansas justices
Posted: May 14, 2012 - 7:23pm
By Tim Carpenter
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL

Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline plans to file a motion Tuesday seeking withdrawal of two state Supreme Court members from an ethics case that could result in the indefinite suspension of Kline's license to practice law.

The Topeka Capital-Journal learned the documents propose recusal of Chief Justice Lawton Nuss and Justice Carol Beier from considering a state panel's recommendation Kline be sanctioned for misconduct during criminal investigations of abortion providers.

Tom Condit, a Cincinnati attorney representing Kline, said in an interview Nuss should step aside because Kline was involved as attorney general in a 2006 inquiry into Nuss' violation of three canons of the professional code for judges. Nuss' private conversation with two senators about a school-finance case pending before the state's highest court was deemed inappropriate. Read full article in The Topeka Capital-Journal (CJOnline).

As reported in September 2009, Beier's witch hunt against Kline included his former asistant, Stephen Maxwell.

Beier's apparent vendetta against Kline now extends to his former assistant

The threat by Kansas Supreme Court justice Carol Beier to bring ethics charges against her nemesis, former Attorney General Phill Kline, was apparently broadened Monday to include Kline's former assistant, Stephen Maxwell.

A Supreme Court administrator served Maxwell with a formal complaint alleging Maxwell violated several ethics rules. The complaint was written by Stanton Hazlett, disciplinary administrator. The Board for Discipline of Attorneys is an entity within the Kansas Supreme Court. If Maxwell cannot successfully refute the charge, Beier, who is up for retention in 2010, will be one of the justices who decides his fate. Source: Kansas Liberty.

The truth will out, and this blog will be watching future developments in this persecution of Phill Kline by abortion supporters.

The State of Kansas owes former Attorney General Phill Kline a Front Page Apology.

Rick's note. I've been following this story since 2007, when I began blogging. This, as I predicted, is finally coming to light. The corrupt pro-choice, i.e., pro-abortion forces of Kansas have done everything they could to damage Phill Kline's reputation due to his relentless investigation and prosecution of illegal activities of the abortion clinics. Thanks to Operation Rescue, and other organizations, I, and other pro-life web sites have been able to get the facts the pro-abortion media in Wichita, Topeka, and Kansas City have been deliberately covering up.

Documents Show Abortion Clinic Not Reporting Sexual Abuse

by Steven Ertelt
Kansas City, KS
LifeNews.com
5/3/12 3:36 PM

New documents obtained by a pro-life group reveal that Central Family Medical, a Kansas City abortion clinic also known as Aid for Women, routinely does not report suspected abuse on women and minors who seek abortions.

Yesterday, Operation Rescue released redacted images of the Supplemental Termination of Pregnancy reports from the abortion facility that show the forms are pre-printed to include a “No” answer in a question on the form asking if a report of suspected abuse was filed. In addition to the incriminating forms, Operation Rescue also released redacted samples of other sensitive private medical information related to abortions on 86 women during the single month of April, 2012.

Operation Rescue has filed complaints with the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, and the Kansas State Board of Nursing seeking a full investigation and calling for the emergency closure of Central Family Medicine.

The documents follow on a 2003 investigation started by former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline, who launched an investigation into Kansas abortion clinics on the information that abortion clinics were failing to report child sex abuse. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, now U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, thwarted Kline’s investigation at every turn and eventually took aggressive steps that ultimately made it impossible for him to pursue the abuse non-reporting aspect of his investigation.

Kline was later brought up on ethics charges for his handling of heavily redacted abortion records obtained under subpoena after three years of legal battles by the clinics. Pro-life groups, including Operation Rescue, believe Kline’s ethics case was politically motivated to protect abortion clinics from criminal prosecution. Read more at LifeNews.com.

Pro-abortion supporters from former governor Kathleen Sebelius, some justices from the Kansas Supreme Court, and others have misrepresented, and even lied about former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline in order to destroy his credibility, and to intimidate any future law enforcement agent from daring to challenge the sacred cow of the Democrats, Abortion on demand. As Mr. Ertelt brings out, one of Klines objectives was to protect children, ie., girls under age 15, from statutory rape, which the abortion clinics were not reporting to the state, as required by state law.

IN MEMORIAM

Chuck Colson 1931-2012

What Is The Origin of the Name, 'Easter?'

A common teaching exists, that Easter is named after a Teutonic pagan goddess, Eastre or Eostre. This idea originated with the eighth-century, English monk, Bede. Alexander Hislop's, The Two Babylons, mistakenly equated the goddess Eostre with the Babylonian-Assyrian fertility goddess Ishtar, and with the Phoenician fertility goddess Astarte.

"...The annual spring celebration of the resurrection of Jesus was not even called Easter until centuries after Christians began celebrating it, and etymological authorities (those who study word origins) have cast doubt on Bede's accuracy.

* In a footnote in a circa 1850 edition of Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History, the translator, Isaac Boyle, suggested that "our word, Easter, is of Saxon origin, and of precisely the same import with its German cognate Ostern. The latter is derived from the old Teutonic form of auferstehn, auferstehung, i.e. resurrection."

* The Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (Baker Books, 1984) article on Easter, after mentioning Bede's account, says it is "more likely" that the word Easter "came from a German root for dawn or east (the time and place of the rising sun)."

The Oxford English Dictionary relates Easter and the east to a common root meaning dawn or morning.

If these are accurate, Easter did not derive from the name of a spring goddess Eastre. Rather, both words came from a root that means "dawn," or "morning/rising/new light," or by extension, "resurrection."

More likely than Bede's explanation, it seems possible that the resurrection celebration was named Easter because the word described the promise of new light and new life brought to humankind by the new-risen Son" (Don Mears, Celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus, Copyright © 1997 Worldwide Church of God, Both Author and bibliography cited).

Jesus Died for You!

Being this is Holy Week, I would like to present the following:

THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS

At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to the death penalty.

At the time crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst criminals condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike other criminals condemned to death by crucifixion, Jesus was to be nailed to the cross by His hands and feet.

Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long. The nails were driven into His wrist. Not into His palms as is commonly portrayed. There's a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the wrist, that tendon would tear and break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support himself so that He could breathe.

Both of His feet were nailed together. Thus He was forced to support Himself on the single nail that impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could not support himself with His legs because of the pain, so He was forced to alternate between arching His back then using his legs just to continue to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage.

Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours.

Yes, over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of suffering? A few minutes before He died, Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water from his wounds.

From common images, we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side... But do we realize His wounds were actually made in his body. A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even large nail
hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear.
But before the nails and the spear, Jesus was whipped and beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp. Most men would not have survived this torture.

He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds. The human adult body contains about 3.5 liters (just less than a gallon) of blood.

Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His members; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His chest.

All these without mentioning the humiliation He passed after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight, only for its higher part, where His hands were nailed).

Jesus had to endure this experience, so that you can have free access to God.

So that your sins could be "washed" away. All of them, with no exception! Don't ignore this situation.

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!

Russell Means, on Our Constution, Law, and the U.S. National Reservation

A man with vision and understanding of our slide into the Culture of Death

EVERY LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Read and Sign the Manhattan Declaration
[Blogger Note: I am a signer and Supporter of the Manhattan Declaration]

March 02, 2012
Several months ago we shared about a new movie produced that was inspired by the life of an abortion survivor, Gianna Jessen. Last October there was a limited release of the movie and now on March 23rd “October Baby” will be released in theaters nationwide.

The producers of “October Baby” are committed to donating 10% of all movie profits to a fund called Every Life is Beautiful. This fund was created as a way to collect and distribute donations from the movie to frontline organizations committed to helping women in crisis pregnancies, life-affirming adoption agencies, and those caring for orphans. Click Here for more information.

About the Movement
In 2009 a number of Christian leaders known for their public witness on behalf of justice, human rights, and the common good came together in shaping the historic Manhattan Declaration. It was born out of an urgent concern about growing efforts to marginalize the Christian voice in the public square, to redefine marriage, and to move away from the biblical view of the sanctity of life. It was originally signed by about 150 prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders and scholars and was released at a press conference in Washington, DC on November 20, 2009.

It is important to understand that the Manhattan Declaration is a call of Christian Conscience. It speaks to the church just as much as it speaks to the larger culture. In fact it is a clarion call to the church to take a stand on three vital issues: The sanctity of life, the dignity of marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and religious liberty. Every day new threats emerge to these three core principles of a good and just society. And every day more and more people respond by adding their names to the Declaration. Each of these signers has committed to speak and act in defense of biblical truths with respect to the three issues it addresses. Each agrees that these truths are not open to compromise. And each has become part of a growing movement of people standing shoulder to shoulder in defense of these three vital moral issues.

As the movement grows and as more and more people across America pledge to be uncompromising in their faith, the Manhattan Declaration will have a huge impact on our society. By standing united and in speaking the truth on the vital issues of life, marriage, and liberty we will serve the common good move our nation toward justice.

Read the Manhattan Declaration.

B-b-b-But It's HIS Fault

The continuing blame-game

This is all over the internet; I even got this in an email. I don’t know who to credit for it, but I am reposting it, as I have checked the facts.

The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough, a lot of people swallow this BULL. So once more, a short civics lesson

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for FY 2008 & FY 2009 as well as FY 2010 & FY 2011. (FY = fiscal year)

In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let's remember what the deficits looked like during that period: (below)

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, including Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.

In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

There are at least two sides to every issue, and to every aspect of the blame game. Get real, people. The Democrats are destroying our country.

Kansas High Court Allows Planned Parenthood Criminal Case to Proceed

By Stephanie Samuel , Christian Post Reporter
October 18, 2010|3:09 pm

The Kansas Supreme Court decided to allow a 107-count criminal case to proceed against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri after the case had been tied up for two years. The organization had been accused of conducting illegal late-term abortions.

“This is a huge victory for the cause of life,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue, in a statement. The pro-life group lobbied for the criminal case to move forward despite a subpoena tie up and a letter from the state’s attorney office pardoning the Planned Parenthood group involved.
. . .
Last Friday, the court finally cleared the case to be tried in the District Court by the Johnson County State’s Attorney office. The Kansas Supreme Court decided to allow a 107-count criminal case to proceed against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri after the case had been tied up for two years. Read article here at the Christian Post

Rick's Comment: I hope, finally, that this will vindicate Phill Kline, who has worked tirelessly to bring charges against Tiller and Planned Parenthood, and has received persecution, his name maligned, and downright deliberate lies against him. I also hope the case will reveal the illegal actions by elected and appointed state officials.