The Painful and Frightening Hours and Days Leading to Christin's Death by Abortion
Topic: Outrageous



WORLD NET DAILY - Dr. Kelly Hollowell

"This is the story about an incredibly loving young girl named Christin. A very active high-school graduate and a beloved member of her softball team and community, she was sweet beyond the norm as so often is the case for children with her diagnosis. She had Down syndrome. (I have heard it said, anecdotally, the extra chromosome which characterizes Trisomy 21, encodes for love. For those of you blessed enough to know anyone with Down syndrome, you will likely agree.)

...This sweet and precious little girl was sexually assaulted, her baby was killed (likely without her consent) then she herself suffered and died a brutal and painful end."

Read Entire WORLD NET DAILY Article by Dr. Kelly Hollowell

NOTHING BUT A VEGETABLE? It could have been so different for Terri Schiavo.
Topic: Honorable Mention



Rick Hoyt was born in 1962. His umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, which caused him to lose oxygen to his brain and become disabled. Dick and Judy Hoyt, Rick’s parents, were told that their first-born son would be a “vegetable” and doctors advised them to put him into an institution. They refused. His parents were convinced that Rick deserved a chance to lead as normal a life as possible and they took him home.

Rick had two younger brothers to grow up with and his parents made every effort to give him the same opportunities that his brothers had. They struggled to have Rick admitted into a public school, having to “prove” his intelligence and ability to participate to administrators. Rick had learned to communicate using an alphabet system that his brother created whereby Rick would nod his head to select certain letters to spell out words.

A group of Tufts University engineers saw a clear, empirical evidence of Rick’s comprehension skills. "They told him a joke," said Dick. "Rick just cracked up. They knew then that he could communicate!" The engineers went on to build — using $5,000 the family managed to raise in 1972 - an interactive computer that would allow Rick to write out his thoughts using the slight head-movements that he could manage. When the computer was originally brought home, Rick surprised his family with his first "spoken" words. They had expected perhaps "Hi, Mom" or "Hi, Dad." But on the screen Rick wrote "Go Bruins." The Boston Bruins were in the Stanley Cup finals that season, and his family realized he had been following the hockey games along with everyone else. "So we learned then that Rick loved sports," said Dick.

When Rick was 15, he communicated something to his father that changed both their lives. "Dad," the mute quadriplegic wrote in his computer after his father pushed him in a wheelchair in a five-kilometer race, "I felt like I wasn't handicapped." For more than 20 years, Rick’s dad has either towed, pushed or carried Rick in a string of athletic challenges including every Boston Marathon since 1981 and most recently the Ironman Triathlon World Championships in Hawaii. "He's the one who has motivated me because if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be out there competing," says his father. "What I'm doing is loaning Rick my arms and legs so he can be out there competing like everybody else."

In 1993 Rick, a young man with no use of his legs or arms or of his tongue got his Bachelor of Science degree from Boston University.

It’s heartbreaking to imagine what Terri Schiavo could have achieved if she had received the proper rehabilitation. If her husband, Michael Schiavo, had loved her as much as the Hoyts have loved their son, her story could have been one of magnificent miracles, instead of the brutal tragedy that it turned out to be.

TEAM HOYT

INDESCRIBABLE VILLAINY
Topic: Pro-Life Poet

Grotesque, despicable, heinous, vile and morose
Are words that do not even begin come close
To describing the slaughter
Of a son or a daughter.
During birth. No defender. All alone. Adios.

by Carol Saunders
www.lumberjacksdaughter.com

THE GRIM SHADOW (Pro-Life Novelette) Excerpt ...Tornado Ridge
Topic: Fable Excerpts



The funnel walls were screaming as Jo Sef went careening, twisting and spiraling down, down, down through the center of Tornado Ridge! He kept his forearms placed strategically in front of his face for protection as he became an out of control projectile reaching breakneck speed (literally)! He knew that if he could just hang in there until the final exit that he would have a chance... Just a few more moments of pummeling without sustaining any major injury. Finally the mountain spit him out like a giant loogey! Jo Sef was instantly soaring weightlessly into blinding daylight! Then falling, falling, falling! Falling with a final, explosive SPLASH into the waters of At Last Shrugged Bay. The mountain had indeed succeeded in shrugging him off. Jo Sef sank deeper and deeper.

The Grim Shadow: A Modern-Day Fable

THE DARK NIGHT OF DEATH Suffocated, Burned, Mangled or Dismembered Victims
Topic: Pro-Life Clippings

WORLD NET DAILY - Dr. Kelly Hollowell

"...So now in every camera shot of those suffering, dead or dying (hurricane Katrina devastation); every broken bone, open wound and cry of desperation; every silent body lying on the street, floating in the water or crouched in a corner of some dark attic; every reaching hand that found no one to take hold, help or protect them from the dark night of death, I also see an unborn victim suffocated, burned, mangled or dismembered inside the womb.

Read Entire WORLD NET DAILY Article by Dr. Kelly Hollowell

Children Sent Back to Their Maker Like Unwanted or Defective Christmas Gifts Returned the Next Day
Topic: Musings

Are children a gift from God? You tell me.

I never quite understood the logic of aborting a pre-born human because they were not going to be normal - because they will arrive flawed like an imperfect diamond.

Like most expectant mothers, I was always very anxious before the birth of each of my children. I knew that so many things could go wrong and I could end up with a child with any manner of abnormality. I wondered if that were the case, would I have the strengh and endurance to take care of them properly or even if I would have the quantity and quality of love that they would need. I understand that it is a great tragedy when a child is born with major defects. It's difficult to even imagine the love and commitment which would be required to take care of a little human with severe birth defects. But this is what I don't understand. Since life has never been a promise of perfection and there is never any guarantee of easy sailing and good times, why do we destroy the imperfect?

I always realized that each time I went out in my car with my children safely secured in their seats, that a drunk driver could swerve over the center line and change our lives forever. I could end up with a child missing body parts, deformed, or with brain damage. An electrical wire could short out in our home and cause a fire that could change a family member beyond recognition. Would I love them any less? Would I allow a physician to end their life (like Dutch doctors in the Netherlands are currently doing) because a future with them in it would be too unbearable?

Life is scary. Really scary. Sometimes I am terrified of what comes next.

To me, though, it is just not logical to kill a pre-born child because they have imperfections. Any one of us could end up with imperfections at any time for any number of reasons. Like Terri Schiavo. Does that mean we would not deserve to live or be loved unconditionally?

LIFE GETS A LITTLE CHEAPER
Topic: Pro-Life Clippings

WORLD NET DAILY - Joseph Farah

"See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil."
– Deuteronomy 30:15

...Today, the arbiters of right and wrong are too often unaccountable high priests wearing black robes.

Life, they tell us, is not a gift from God, but, rather, something to be experienced by those whose lives reach some arbitrary and mysterious level of "quality."

Only 60 years ago, the world witnessed the carnage of Hitler's death camps and said it could never happen again.

Read Entire WORLD NET DAILY Article by Joseph Farah

INTOLERABLE INFLEXABILITY - INDISCRIMINATE EUTHANASIA
Topic: Pro-Life Clippings

WORLD NET DAILY - Mychal Massie

The Terri Schiavo case is not about a right to life or a right to death; it is about a right to humanity, protection under the law and morality.

These basic provisions having been denied her, Florida, indeed America, becomes no better than the societal sewers of the world that sanction indiscriminate euthanasia.

We have been led to believe that our system of government protects the innocent, the helpless and that our laws are humane and moral. Terri Schiavo has shown us that such is not the case. Judge Greer has shown us the intolerable inflexibility of the courts toward all but the corrupt.

Read Entire WORLD NET DAILY Article by Mychal Massie

The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior! - The Terri Schiavo Decision
Topic: Pro-Life Clippings

WORLD NET DAILY - Patrick J. Buchanan

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Is America a democratic republic, where the laws are made by elected legislators? Are we a federal republic, where social questions are decided by the states?

Or has America become a judicial dictatorship, where Supreme Court justices render final judgment on all social and moral issues – from the death penalty to abortion to homosexual rights to religious displays to the Pledge of Allegiance. This question of power lies behind the "Judges War" that has broken out in this capital.

Tom DeLay, R-Texas, ignited the fuse. When Terri Schiavo died after a Florida judge starved her for two weeks, the enraged House majority leader roared, "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." Declared Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, judicial seizures of power could lead people to "engage in violence." At a conference on "Remedies to Judicial Tyranny," Phyllis Schlafly, first lady of American conservatism, declared, "Tom DeLay and Sen. Cornyn need to be backed up."

Read Entire WORD NET DAILY Article by Patrick J. Buchanan

The Day After Terri Schiavo's Death, Michael Savage Said He Should Have Gotten an Army of Citizens Together to Go and Save Her
Topic: Pro-Life Clippings

Each act ...
is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone...
you don't want to go out of your way to make trouble ...
And it is not just fear ...
that restrains you, it is also genuine uncertainty ...
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it ...
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed...
You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father ...
could never have imagined.

-Milton Sanford Mayer, "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945" ( 1955, University of Chicago Press )

Tower of Babel Incantations by Lawyers and ACLU Experts - Judicial Tyranny in Schiavo Case
Topic: Pro-Life Clippings

Peter Bronson of the Cincinnati Enquirer had this to say:

Once upon a time, gods in long robes who used dried bones and mysterious omens to wield power over life and death were called druids, sorcerers and witch doctors. Now we call them judges.

Take away the Tower of Babel incantations by lawyers and ACLU experts, and it comes down to this: A county judge in Florida ordered that an innocent disabled woman must die. Judge George Greer even denied the grace of last Communion to Terri Schiavo.

Her parents and family, the governor, the president, Congress, Florida lawmakers and even, bless him, Jesse Jackson, want her to live. Her husband, who now lives with another woman, wants her to die. So the judge ordained a death sentence of starvation that would be too "cruel and unusual" for the worst terrorist or psycho killer.

Peter Bronson's Entire Article

STOP THE ACLU

UNDERCLASSMAN Starring Nick Cannon of
Topic: Movie Reviews

Not exactly the type of movie I normally go out of my way to see but I want to support Nick Cannon who is the young man who directed and starred in the "Can I Live" music video. The movie came out in theatres today.

Nick Cannon's "Can I Live" Video
Click on Link Next to the Small Photo on the Right.

"LA's youngest cop Tre Stokes (Nick Cannon) is about to get his biggest assignment: he must go undercover to break up a dangerous crime ring rooted in a upscale prep school. The deeper Tre goes the more dangerous and volatile the situation becomes. Fighting both his personal demons and the forces determined to take him down, he must risk everything to catch the ones closest to him."

Nick Cannon's UNDERCLASSMAN

SPONGY MONKEY
Topic: Musings



This is off-topic but I can't help but be excited. I entered my first writing contest last month and just found out that I have won 3rd Place!

It was the WritersWeekly.com Summer 2005 24-Hour Short Story Contest. It took me 20 of those hours just to come up with a story idea. I turned it in just 15 minutes before the deadline. I felt like I was back in high school and completing an important assignment at the last possible minute (which is actually how I went about completing assignments when I was back in high school).

SPONGY MONKEY Short Story

One Boiled Frog and Several Fried Forest Fire Fighters
Topic: Outrageous



By the middle of the 1980's I was thinking that ten years later the world most surely would have went totally insane and evil would abound. Then came Y2K and the new millennium and it seemed like it wasn't near as bad as I thought it would be. Now I think I am like the frog that starts out in cold water and slowly is brought to a boil, never noticing the change in temperature enough to jump out and save his life. Millions of preborn babies being brutally killed - homes that have been in families for generations being awarded to local government because the luxury homes or shopping malls built in their place will bring in more tax revenue - farmers being denied irrigation water because a bottom feeding sucker fish (not even native to the area) might be disturbed - young adults fried to a crisp in a violent forest fire because the people in charge couldn't fill up the water transport helicopters in the local river because they might disturb an endangered fish.

What no one seemed to notice ...
was the ever widening gap ...
between the government and the people ...
And it became always wider ...
the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting, it provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway ...
Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about ...
and kept us so busy with continuous changes and 'crises' and so fascinated ...
by the machinations of the 'national enemies', without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us ...
Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted', that unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these 'little measures' ...
must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing ...
Each act ...
is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone...
you don't want to go out of your way to make trouble ...
And it is not just fear ...
that restrains you, it is also genuine uncertainty ...
And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it ...
But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves, when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed...
You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things your father ...
could never have imagined."
- Milton Sanford Mayer, "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-1945" ( 1955, University of Chicago Press )

TWELVE WEEK OLD "TAP DANCING" FETUS - If they can dance, they can feel pain!
Topic: Musings



At 37 years old and three months pregnant, my doctor wanted me to have an amniocentesis test to make sure my baby didn't have Down Syndrome, since the pregnancy was considered by him to be high risk because I was so "old". I declined.

About this time, myself and several other mothers of young daughters taking tap dancing class had decided to form a class of our own. The instructor, fresh up from performing at Disneyland, was elated at the prospect (we won the main award at a regional competition over all the different age groups and categories). Good times...

They did an ultrasound when the fetus (Caleb) was about twelve weeks along - he was doing some sort of wild Irish jig. I figured that due to all the dance practice I was putting in he had decided to dance along with me. Caleb was about the size of a walnut but he was already "Lord of the Dance". I would think that if a person is developed enough to do a lively "tap dance", their nervous system is also developed enough to feel pain. Just an uneducated guess.

Because there's still some good left in the world, Frodo, and it's worth fighting for.
Topic: Honorable Mention

OMAHA - Joseph W. Moylan, a longtime Douglas County judge, has died at the age of 73. He served 21 years on the bench after his appointment by then Gov. J.J. Exon, in 1973.

In 1993, Judge Moylan resigned rather than rule on an abortion notification waiver for a pregnant teenager. Under the law, a girl 17 or younger had to notify a parent or guardian that she intended to have an abortion, or she could petition a judge for a waiver.

Gretchen Moylan said her husband had reviewed the law, and his notes said: "By the time I was assigned a case in August 1993 ... I knew what I had to do." After 21 years as a judge, he quit.

Doing so drew national attention. Letters and other responses came from across the country, and awards came from Boys Town, Metro Right to Life, a Jesuit honor society and from other organizations.

Moylan's decision was driven by his moral convictions, said attorney Susan Ann Koenig of Omaha on Monday, who represented the young woman.

Martin Cannon, an Omaha attorney who has represented anti-abortion groups, said his friend Moylan feared that had he waived the notification, she would have carried through with the abortion. "The whole reason she's in court is because she's going down that road," Cannon said Monday. "It's simply a given."

Said Moylan at the time: "My personal belief is that someday we'll all meet at the final judgment and give an accounting of our lives. I've got a lot of things I wish I didn't have to account for, and I don't care to add something like this to the list."

After his resignation, the judge became involved in anti-abortion activities. In the summer of 1999, for example, he and his wife helped organize a prayer vigil near Dr. LeRoy Carhart's Abortion & Contraceptive Clinic office in Bellevue.

"Selling Their Soul for Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll" or Something Like That...
Topic: Musings

What's up with how many Pro-Choice/Pro-Death politicians started out being unequivocally against abortion and then switched sides of the debate?

AL GORE: In letters to his constituents, he wrote: "It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large number of abortions drop sharply." (Letters from Sept. 15, 1983, August 22, 1984,) In a May 26, 1987 letter to a constituent he wrote: "During my 11 years in congress, I have consistently opposed federal funding for abortions. In my opinion, it is wrong to spend federal funds for what is arguably taking of a human life. Let me assure you that I share your belief that innocent human life must be protected, and I am committed to furthering this goal."

RICHARD GEPHARDT: "Life is the division of human cells, a process that begins with conception.... The [Supreme Court's abortion] ruling was unjust, and it is incumbent on the Congress to correct the injustice." Mr. Gephardt wrote in 1984, "I have always been supportive of pro-life legislation. I intend to remain steadfast on this issue.... I believe that the life of the unborn should be protected at all costs."
In 1987, however, Mr. Gephardt decided to run for president, and he soon announced that he had discontinued his support for pro-life legislation. Specifically, he informed the National Right to Life Committee, "I do not support any Constitutional Amendment pertaining to the legality of abortion."

EDWARD KENNEDY: "While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion on demand is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized -- the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grown old. "When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception."

BILL CLINTON: In a letter to Arkansas Right to Life, September 26, 1986: "I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion is wrong."

JESSE JACKSON: "What happens to the mind of a person, and the moral fabric of a nation, that accepts the aborting of the life of a baby without a pang of conscience? What kind of a person and what kind of a society will we have 20 years hence if life can be taken so casually? It is that question, the question of our attitude, our value system, and our mind-set with regard to the nature and worth of life itself that is the central question confronting mankind. Failure to answer that question affirmatively may leave us with a hell right here on earth."

Bloggers Imprisoned, Tortured and Killed for Expressing Opinions! Who's Next?
Topic: Outrageous

Considering this is actually happening to bloggers in various parts of the world, I guess censorship or having your blog flagged for "hate speech" doesn't seem quite so bad. Well, actually, it does seem really bad to me. Freedom to express conflicting opinions is important. Learning that votes from a few disgruntled people who disagree with the views I express on my blog can convince Google to change my blog to "unlisted" is frightening.

It took me forever to figure out how I could get a "controversial" pro-life book of fiction such as mine (The Grim Shadow) published. I looked up categories in the Writers Market. There were fiction categories covering every topic under the sun (the occult, alternative lifestyles, erotica, experimental, feminist, etc.) but no category that my book would fit into. In non-fiction there was a listing for conservative books, but once I got into fiction I couldn't find any such listing. I've been told my story would make a great movie. Yes, it would. But will it ever be made into one? Yeh, when pigs fly.

To top it off, now I am getting paranoid. My book is taking longer to get to market than was predicted and I am afraid that some group of disgruntled people who have somehow gotten a bootlegged copy of my manuscript have figured out how to stop the publishing process indefinitely with their powerful votes. Nah... I'm sure I'm only imagining things. It's been a long day...(and I may be having illusions of grandeur)

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Back to School POLITICKLE Madness!
Topic: Politickles



RE: ORIENTATION
Fully formed are your heart, soul, and mind
With the facts of a faith well defined.
Now we send you to college,
Where a secular "knowledge"
Will ensure that belief's undermined.

FRESHMAN ORIENTATION
Students headed for college each fall
Have to keep their opinions in thrall:
It's essential to be
Perceived as "PC,"
So they try not to speak up at all.

FAILING MARX
Socialism is dead!
Done in, the indomitable Red!
Or so it would seem,
But in academe
One had better check under one's bed.

GRADUATION MAD SONG
The student goes to college
And an education forges,
But I fed too much
On knowledge and such,
And now my brain disgorges:
Within the dark and dismal class,
You'll no longer spot my features.
My notes I burned,
And since I've learned
What I never could from teachers.

GRADUATION DEITY
No religious beliefs were expressed
In his valedictorian address,
But he feigned an "achoo!"
And his classmates on cue
In unison shouted "God bless!"

Politickles by F.R. Duplantier

"The Execution of Terri Schiavo" by Patrick J. Buchanan
Topic: Pro-Life Clippings



WORLD NET DAILY: Terri Schiavo was executed by the state of Florida. Her crime? She was so mentally disabled as to be unworthy of life in the judgment of Judge George Greer. The execution was carried out at Woodside Hospice. An autopsy will reveal that Terri's vital organs shut down for lack of food and water. She did not die of the brain damage she suffered 15 years ago. She was put to death.

To read the entire article by Patrick J. Buchanan click on the link below.

NEWSMAX.COM Terri Schiavo Execution

Photo: Terri Schiavo's Mother and Father