If You Go See One Movie This Weekend. . .

Chances are it's going to be The Hunger Games or Titanic 3D or The Cabin in the Woods.

But if you can't stand to hear Celine Dion belt out how her heart will go on or think that the teenagers in a remote cabin will wait for the rents and you've seen The Hunger Games, there is an option for you.

Something that still tells a good story and grips you emotionally.  October Baby is the movie for you.
 

Sunday Night Video Dump: The Uncanny Andrew Klaven And The Unfunny Issue Of Abortion

"Raymond Noodles"?

Ramen, raymond. Tomato, too-mah-toe.

I just want to tell you what it’s like not to have Planned Parenthood. You have to give your kids ramen noodles at the end of the month to fill up their little bellies so they won’t cry. You have to give them mayonnaise sandwiches. They get very few fresh fruits and vegetables because they’re expensive. It subjects children to low educational attainment because of the ravages of poverty.

Robert Stacy breaks down Rep. Gwen Moore's (D-Wisc.) non-sequitur of a speech that she gave on the House floor.

The full video of Moore's comments can be found here.

The real irony of it all is that Moore is defending the organization that Margaret Sanger started in order to target minorities like Moore with sterilization in the first place.

Shifting The Goal Posts?

UPDATE: This is one of the more ridiculous things I've heard in a very long time. That Sarah Palin herself will give up her Pro-Life position?

I said no such thing about Palin.

Read it again.

The same platform that can easily be done away with should the Republican nominee, whoever they are, feel like it in 2012.

If the GOP goes the way David Frum would like it in 2012, then the chances of a pro-abortion candidate are very likely.

Do I think Palin has a chance to be the nominee? I honestly have no clue. Whatever will happen, will happen.

But yes, Lisa Graas has shifted the goal posts. Way back where she wanted something where Palin talked about the plank specifically. Then it was the 14th amendment. I've tried to oblige her. It wasn't to her satisfaction.

I'm done trying to jump through her hoops.

Previously:
The gauntlet was thrown and the challenge laid bare was thus:

On a side note, I have challenged David Riddle, a contributor at Conservatives 4 Palin, to provide me with some quotes from Sarah Palin proving that she is a defender of our Fourteenth Amendment.  See, that's important since it's in our pro-life plank.

To which I replied back:

[Palin] gave a speech on Friday, May 14th to the Susan B. Anthony Organization. There was lots of talk about the Constitution throughout her speech and her support for it as well as endorse candidates who she’ll believe to support those same views. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, it’s available online.

I should have figured it wouldn't of satisfied Lisa Graas's question. She points back to the plank in the GOP Platform of 08. The plank that is by no way law of the land. The platform that lost in 08. The same platform that can easily be done away with should the Republican nominee, whoever they are, feel like it in 2012.

It's safe to say that Graas is for the most part a single issue voter. That's fine, its her choice. I can understand her hesitation at someone who is libertarian like Rand Paul. But I can't find what she wants regarding Palin using the exact verbs and noun in the correct syntax she's looking for. Palin is not a lawyer so I wouldn't expect any legal briefs on that one.

Far as I know, she didn't push any anti-abortion bills through the Alaskan State Congress. They would have been rendered moot if they were signed into law anyway. If the 14th Amendment was repealed, the Alaska would have a chance to be a pro-life state, if I remember my US Government class correctly. There's the catch-22 for Graas. Without the 14th, the Americans With Disabilities Act couldn't be enforce at the federal level and would be up to the individual states to act on it.

What Palin is trying to establish is coalition building. Getting to that proverbial 51% which wins elections and controls Congress.

But for now, I've said my piece and continue to agree to disagree with Graas.

So It Has Come To This: If This Doesn't Satisfy Lisa Graas's Question, I'm Not Sure What Will

Lisa Graas over at Genuine GOP Mom challenged me recently for evidence that Sarah Palin is really pro-life. Specifically, the plank in the GOP Platform what Graas linked to at the GOP election page for 08. You know, the one that Sarah Palin used when running on the GOP ticket as Vice President. 

Besides Palin’s actions—being louder than words—as a mom with a special needs child she sought to carry through the pregnancy. Instead of killing the unborn baby when he was diagnosed with Downs Syndrome. And as horrid as these numbers are, aborting a special needs child is something that 9 out of 10 mothers have done. She was in the 10% who carried her son to term. 

But Palin’s actions weren’t good enough for Graas. Graas wanted the flowery words. Mind you, flowery words from a used car salesman were enough for me buy a crap car when I was younger. Once bitten, twice shy. I’ll take someone’s personal actions over their words any day of the week.  Graas wanted something after Palin endorsed Rand Paul for Senate. 

The use of the language "Platform" in a speech.

Granted, Palin is not the Chief Expectative of a State anymore but a mere private citizen. Not even actively seeking office but who has more political clout than Mitt Romney or Newt Gringrich.

I have this.  A show of  support for the 14th amendment, in fact the entire Constitution.  She didn’t succeed from the Union as governor of Alaska.

“Not good enough”, is what Graas will probably say. And where I’ll have to counter with this: I have looked but failed to find where Palin lists off the amendments, checking off the pros and cons of each. But there is ample evidence where she talks (not actions, remember, talks.) about supporting those who are Constitutionalists.

Now I would imagine that when Palin talks about the Constitution of these United States, she means the initial document as well as all 27 amendments to the Constitution. Seeing how they are in fact part of the Supreme law of the land. She’s never released a Facebook note with an asterisk behind it saying for example, “*Except for that pesky 20th Amendment.”

For context, I believe in the Bible being the Word of God. I don’t believe a book here and there and consider the rest irrelevant but all 66 books. It’s the same with the US Constitution. I’ll treat it as the Supreme law of the land and will do my best to adhere to its laws (except for when they contradict the Bible’s commandments but that is a theological argument for later). And that includes the Amendments.

The Bill of Rights, absolutely they were needed. The 13th, banning involuntary servitude? You betcha. The 19th, we can talk about but it is the law of the land (And I’ll freely blow the Wolf Whistle of Sexism on me for that one. I. E. it’s a joke.). The 21st, God forgive me but I do love a tasty and cold micro brewed beer from time to time. And that’s only picking a few Amendments out at random.

Specifics, Graas will ask for one more time.

Very well, in the year of our Lord, 2010, she gave a speech on Friday, May 14th to the Susan B. Anthony Organization. There was lots of talk about the Constitution throughout her speech and her support for it as well as endorse candidates who she’ll believe to support those same views. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, it’s available online.



Or as Adrienne posted the key quote from Gov. Palin here:

It all comes down to life and how we're going to take a stand on protecting innocent life and deciding that nobody is beneath the protection of our laws.

Life, meaning all life, special needs and unborn and laws meaning all laws at the local, state and federal level, including the Supreme Law of the Land: The US Constitution.

I’m unclear of the exact hour and minute but I think that should satisfy Lisa Graas's query.

After listening to the speech, I don't believe that she actually said the word, 'Platform' but she did define what was covered under that particular plank.  Rather articulated her stance very well in fact.

If that doesn't quell her line of questioning, I'm not sure what will but I've said my piece about it.  Should it continue, it will be without me and I will wash my hands of this affair.

I Like What Cassy Has To Say And Am Interested In Her Newsletter

"Let’s say that I were to suddenly decide to follow the feminist line of thinking. I believe in the Second Amendment. And unlike so-called “women’s rights”, the right to bear arms actually is in the Constitution. Therefore, I think that all guns should be taxpayer funded, because it’s my right".

Completely unrelated except that it's from Cassy's blog. The man who has earned so much for doing so little receives a Black Belt for. . . maybe having seen a Bruce Lee movie in the past or something? For the vomit inducing goodness.

Too Good To Pass Up

Stick with it to the end.