Ask Yourself, Do You Really Care About Life If Its Just Iraqis

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090423/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_death_toll_13

AP IMPACT: Secret tally has 87,215 Iraqis dead

Combined with tallies based on hospital sources and media reports since the beginning of the war and an in-depth review of available evidence by The Associated Press, the figures show that more than 110,600 Iraqis have died in violence since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

The number is a minimum count of violent deaths. The official who provided the data to the AP, on condition of anonymity because of its sensitivity, estimated the actual number of deaths at 10 to 20 percent higher because of thousands who are still missing and civilians who were buried in the chaos of war without official records.

The numbers show just how traumatic the war has been for Iraq. In a nation of 29 million people, the deaths represent 0.38 percent of the population. Proportionally, that would be like the United States losing 1.2 million people to violence

The data obtained by the AP measure only violent deaths — people killed in attacks such as the shootings, bombings, mortar attacks and beheadings that have ravaged Iraq. It excluded indirect factors such as damage to infrastructure, health care and stress that caused thousands more to die.

Authoritative statistics for 2003 and 2004 do not exist. But Iraq Body Count, a private, British-based group, has tallied civilian deaths from media reports and other sources since the war's start. The AP reviewed the Iraq Body Count analysis and confirmed its conclusions by sifting the data and consulting experts. The AP also interviewed experts involved with previous studies, prominent Iraq analysts and provincial and medical officials to determine that the new tally was credible.

Obama Must Wake Up

If Obama was nothing else, he was ever the idealist, envisioning America and the world for what it could be. But now is the time for him to wake up, and face the reality of what the world is; what it will always be. it is time for him to wake up to the fact that he runs America, the single most greedy, self-centered nation on earth. He is NOT the CEO of Disney world

His latest ideological misspeak was that he wants the world together to strive for total nuclear disarmament.  Beautiful thought to be sure, spoken by an equally eloquent, charismatic orator,  which is the only reason he probably  got more than a few people in this Bi-Polar world into their manic state. But to the realists among us, we remain in our depressive minds.

America, as the realists see it, is first in many things.  Ok we already covered greed, ego and selfishness. But America also leads the world in other equally abhorrent deeds.  America was first in developing nuclear weapons. America was first in using them.  American remains the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons, and not just once either. 

So while it is indeed a wonderful idea, it is impractical and impossible.  When you have the Unites States, Russia, China and Muslim fanatics bent on world domination by any means necessary,  im afraid that nuclear weapons AND worse will be here to stay.

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Americas New Name?

 All Extremism, be it Politics, + Religion + Greed, result in all Ruling the same Nation  - RuiNation, what America is now facing as a result of years of the above    RJC 3-29-2009





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Israel admits killing 189 children in Gaza campaign

choose from what publicatio you trust here

Sarah Palin's Daughter and Boyfriend Break Up

Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol Palin and Bristol's fiance, Levi Johnston, have broken up a little over two months after the birth of their out-of-wedlock son, Tripp.

These two are not only poster children FOR birth control, But they give me a new idea for condom use. They each should have put one over their heads prior to having sex.

Its Hard to Feel Bad for Them, But

The number of billionaires worldwide, fell to 793 from 1,125 last year     Now dont you feel bad for them?

Death by Medical Accidents; WHY???

Think about this, ....
If a full Jumbo Jet were to crash, with no survivors,  each and every day for a full year,  we would be in an uproar, wouldn't we?  Preventable deaths in those numbers would appall us. We would be screaming for answers, for accountability, for PREVENTION, right? Of course we would.
  Then why don't we demand the same from our Doctors and Hospital?  Yes people, thats how many patients die each year from PREVENTABLE MEDICAL ACCIDENTS.  Approximately 100,000, the same as if all those planes had crashed.
 Yet not only is not enough being done to reduce and hold accountable, the Medical community, but we are not even hearing enough about it from our media and politicians.

Now more bad news.  At first glance the Obama administrations vow to try and get national health care for all,  seems like a great idea.  But wait; do you think for a minute that the accompanying deaths caused by medical errors wont also increase?  Maybe even more due to over worked Doctors and nurses at understaffed hospitals.  Sorry to burst your bubble, but health care for all will mean increased risk for all.
 Now for those who presently have NO health coverage, this risk may actually be an improvement in their lives. But what about the rest of us?  Sorry to be selfish, but thats unacceptable to me.  Tax me more to take care of the poor, maybe, but increase the risk of death of my loved ones, in order to accommodate the currently uninsured, sorry, HELL NO! 
Finally add to this an increased wait time for routine tests. Canada has a national health care system, and a friend of mine who lives there confirmed LONG WAITS, months, many months in some cases, for what we consider routines tests. That also will increase the death rate simply by delaying diagnosis.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. 

Bachelor Bum Jason Mesnick

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Floridians Demands it THEIR WAY

What is up in Florida?  3 times in the last 7 months people have called 911 to complain about their fast food.

August 04, 2008  JACKSONVILLE, Fla - a man called 911 to complain that Subway left the sauce off a sandwich

February 09, 2009 BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. a man called 911 to complain that a Burger King had run out of lemonade

Feb 28, 2009 Fort Pierce Fl. woman called 911,  3 times to report the"emergency" at Mcdonalds saying they didn't have McNuggets,

Born Again, Also .....

       Porn again it seems.

A new study (link1,  link2) shows that the states that consume the most porn tend to be the more conservative and religious states.  8 of the top 10 Porn-Consuming States Voted Republican in 2008 Presidential Election. And another one, Florida voted Bush in 2000 AND 2004. So that effectively 9 out of 10 of the more religious and more conservative states are the biggest porn consumers. This isnt new either. Been going on for years. Roy Cohn, staunch conservative lawyer during the McCarthy era of the 50's, died of AIDS, And it WASNT from a blood transfusion either.

At first glance this could be laughable and we could shrug it off as who cares. But then we must take a second, closer look at whats happening here.  It is following a pattern.  It follows with all the conservative civilians, politicians, evangelicals, pastors, ministers, priests, what have you, who continue to publicly preach one life style, while practicing something vastly different themselves. Im not suggesting that they all are guilty, but certainly some of the more hi profile ones have been exposed.  Ted Haggard (Leader of the National Association of Evangelicals ) is a prime example. Now two or more years since he got caught and "fixed", cured of his homosexuality, Ted Haggard admits that he still has homosexual thoughts and tendencies. Only difference is he says he no longer acts on them.  Im sure this doesnt feel right to the holier than thou religious conservatives in this country.  Im sure they wish Haggard would just go away. You see he isnt really "cured" as most religious assure us is possible, rather he has learned more self control.  i saw his documentary on HBO, he is still not a happy man, and probably will never be as long as he is forced to "control" and hide his real self.
 And lets not let those conservative repuublicans get off the hook here,.  you almost lose track, there have been so many conservative republicans caught with their pants down so to speak.  there is  republican Larry Craig, U.S. Senator, in a Minn airport bathroom, there is republican Foley (U.S. Representative )  in Florida with young male interns, I mean just google "republican scandals"
 And then we have all those catholic priests who molested all those children over the last 40 years AT LEAST.

So you see, we have a do as i say not as i do type thing going on here.  Laws, and rules (doctrines anyone) are created by those who feel THEY dont have to obey them, THEY are ABOVE them  .But they insist that WE DO have to abide by them. This is a ridiculous proposition.  Since childhood, i have always despised hearing that famous "do as i say, not as i do" line.  Isnt it time they literaly "practice what they preach"?  Isnt it time WE MADE THEM.

 Every day now we are learning to trust NO ONE as some of our biggest leaders in all different fields fail us, from the highest financial wizards and business men to the highest politicians, to the highest echelon of religious, clergy, priests, ministers pastors, bishops, cardinals etc....All have lied to us at the very least.  Who and what is there left for us to trust.

 Democrats dont have this problem, simply because they will tell you to you face if they are gay, if they like porn, and hell yes they do like sex, just maybe not with their spouses .........

New Yorks New Cardinal: Timothy Dolan

3 positive articles about new yorks new cardinal. yes  i know your all surprised that i would sunmit such articles but hey, im willing to give him a fair chance. he;s seemingly a very remarkable man.
to sum up what i like, he doesnt appear to be one of those people who is full of himself. he would seem to be a man of the people. to be able to balance making most of his flock happy while still keeping true to his profession has to be practically impossible. i applaud him for apparently being able to do that, tho time will tell what i actually think of him, but so far so good.
below is my hilites of the 3 articles, with links so you can read em yourself if your so inclined.

1st article
In describing Dolan:

• The more accurate word is "disarming." People like Dolan, even if they have reason not to. They think they could offer him a beer at a church festival and that he'd enjoy it. He shows up in comic-strip form in the weekly archdiocesan newspaper, with miter and grin and a dialogue bubble reading, "Hey, kids!" This seems natural.
  
• He put the list of sex-abuser priests online.
  
• He's selling the archdiocesan headquarters to pay off millions in settlements over abuse by renegade priests that his predecessors sent elsewhere.
• This is all patch-up for a diocese left in tatters by former Archbishop Rembert Weakland - who after 25 years of cerebral, aloof leadership retired in 2002 about the time news broke that he paid $450,000 in hush money to a young male lover.All Dolan had to do was smile and not be Weakland, and he'd have been OK. But he also did the fiscal repairs and disarmed a considerable "to hell with Rome" contingent among priests and preached orthodoxy without setting off open war with theological liberals and found a way to accommodate the Latin Mass crowd - and still ended up seeming like everyone's genial uncle.
• He's not a prelate. He's a guy who happens to be a prelate. I hear New York could use that.
• what Dolan really is, is a pastor. When it was definite we'd lose him, people were calling radio shows recounting how the archbishop was phoning their homes to check up on some relative on whose behalf they'd asked him to pray months before. He showed up at people's houses to bless the sick.
• He didn't have to come to my kids' school, a tiny parent-run thing with no link to any parish - but he did.
•  Dolan does not give the impression of a brilliant man who's managed to accommodate his doubts. Rather, he seems like a man who used his intelligence to find answers to those doubts - and now wants to clue you in.
  

2nd article:

• Dolan said President Obama had phoned him."He said, 'I just wanted to call and congratulate you and assure you of my prayers.' And I said, 'Thank you, Mr. President. I need those prayers.' ""Well, I need yours, too," Obama responded."He said, 'You know, we're in kind of a tight financial situation,' " Dolan recalled. "And I said, 'If we can have a second collection or something, let us know.' It was a remarkably pleasant and enjoyable and friendly call."

•  Dolan is considered a conservative when it comes to church teachings. And, like Egan - and all but one of his 12 predecessors in the New York Archdiocese - Dolan is of Irish descent."That's a sign of the Holy Father's infallibility, don't you think?" Dolan quipped.
  

3rd article

In Dolan, New Yorkers will "see someone who is certainly very firm in the teachings of church doctrine, but he's not the kind of person who's going to hit people over the head," "He's willing to engage in dialogue with people," Shelley said, echoing remarks Dolan made earlier yesterday. "He's willing to build bridges rather than pull up the drawbridge.

Congress Passes Americans With No Abilities Act

This is so funny ( to me anyway).  even more so when you consider that Liberals WOULD indeed actually embrace this idea, and are probably annoyed that they didn't think of it.  Or did they?  Do yourself a favor and take a minute to read it. it comes from the Onion.com and they are noted for this kind of sarcasm.  This is the part of putting Obama in office that scared me.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28982

Fwd: The Bush Legacy

The U.S. budget, has gone from a $128 billion surplus seven years ago to a to a more than $1 trillion deficit now.

If Only

If only he could.  Well at least he has a plan

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/obama-pledge-halve-us-deficit/story.aspx?guid={B2185C67-1192-4109-A85D-23D9F4D54D9E}&siteid=yahoomy

N.Y. Post Cartoon

Ok, so the n.y.post is my paper of choice. i view it as a conservative, mostly honest publication. I say mostly honest because hey, we all have our "agendas".   BUT this was wrong. No matter how i try to look at it or "spin" it i coulnt escape the obvious.
A little background for those who didnt hear:
Police shot and killed an out-of-control chimp in Conn. the other day.
The next day, the post had a cartoon showing cops with guns drawn and the chimp lying dead on the street.  the balloon caption on it was "they'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill"
To me, this was racist, no matter how how hard i try to see another side, any other side.  If you can see it differently  please let me know
Post picture here  
original chimp stories here
 

Palin: Abstinence Only Isn't Realistic

Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, said in an interview that the abstinence her mom preaches is "not realistic at all."
She also denied that her mother's anti-abortion views were the reason she went ahead with the pregnancy, saying
"It was my choice to have the baby, It doesn't matter what my mom's views are on it. It was my decision."
further saying she has no philosophical or religious issue with teens using contraception, and realizes that abstinence isn't a "realistic" course of action for most people.

The Huffington post quotes Sarah Palin supposedly saying, in response to a question by Van Susteren,  mentioning abstinence,  "It sounds naive. Life happens."

Also while discussing this on the view,  elisabeth hasselback a conservative co-host admitted that "abstinence only" was an "ideal,"  BUT implied that if you were going to have sex anyway, protection should be known about and used.  For those who dont know, there is NO bigger conservative than her. She has feuded repeatedly with her Liberal co-hosts in the past. For more about elisabeth hasselback just google her here

Watch the full Interview here

 Links 1, 2, 3,

N.Y.C.Training Prostitutes?

Only In New York ..........
 New York police allegedly have been targeting "gay" book and video shops in Manhattan, Young allegedly good looking undercover cops have been approaching middle aged men in these shops and offering them sex. When the middle age men agree, obviously thinking they died and went to gay mens heaven, they begin to leave the store.  As they reach the outside the cop says oh by the way i want to pay you $XX for ____ _____ ____ .  At this point, even having said nothing in reply to the money, the "mark" is surrounded by other undercover cops and arrested on prostitution charges.

Now here is the funny part IF there can be a funny part to false arrests.  As part of a plea agreement the men are ordered to attend 5 "health" classes.  The first of these classes is entitled "How to Be A Safer Sex Worker,"
 So there you have it, n.y.c is training NON prostitutes to be better sex workers. 
 If you really want the "details" the stories are here and here


p.s.
This reminds me of another n.y.c. law that if you merely point out whom someone can buy drugs from, you are guilty of FELONY "steering"

 also come to mind that incident in the Minn. airport where a politician got arrested for tapping his foot.  Yes further research on my part revealed that foot tapping in a public bathroom, is an "accepted" code among gay men that you are interested in a "hookup", but still NO actual crime was ever committed.  Assuming that the foot tapping would lead to a "no money exchange" encounter in PRIVATE, then no crime would ever have been committed. 

And This is Democracy. Imagine how bad it is elsewhere in the world.  They'd cut your ------ off! ....... Instant sex change

Vatican says if aliens exist, they may not need redemption

Vatican astronomer says if aliens exist, they may not need redemption

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802629.htm

Catholic Church Flip Flops on Evolution

 again and again and ........

http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=18504