I Want to Hear the Abortion Jokes

"Newt Gingrich’s campaign is so dead, Mitt Romney wants to baptize it and Rick Santorum wants to put it in a jar and show it to his kids."

That's the joke that Jimmy Kimmel was going to tell at The White House Correspondent's Dinner. He didn't, but only because an ABC News reporter told him that it could "cause the room to turn against him."

Yup. Jimmy Kimmel thinks dead babies are funny. It's a ghastly ghoulish joke in which I see no possibility of humor. None. But that's why I wish he would've told it.

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Revolution Trailer

A new show slated for the fall has me intrigued. I love me some post-apocalyptic corn-growing. Yessir.



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Lose weight so you can donate organs?

A study done at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research showed that obesity is contributing to a "shortage of organs for donation."  From Inquisitor.com

In an analysis of 104 potential kidney donors, researchers at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and Feinstein Institute for Medical Research found that 23 percent of the patients were classified as morbidly obese.  A person who is classified as morbidly obese is not able to donate an organ.

What to do to get more organs?  Get people to lose weight:

Obese people are largely considered bad candidates for organ transplantation due to the strain the surgery and healing will put on their bodies.  At times, Obese donors are put on diet and behavior management programs and doctors chart their progress monthly to determine if their eligibility has changed.   Only 3% of those who try to lose the weight and become donors succeed.

Sachdeva offered the following recommendation for obese participants:

    “We need to target that 30 percent who are really motivated to lose weight. What can we do differently?  We could put them in a more rigorous weight loss program, have closer follow-up, offer motivational support groups or even in some participants – if their BMI permits – consider bariatric surgery.”

So lose weight (even undergo bariatric surgery) so that you can become an organ donor?

I don't have an issue with organ donation per se, but I do take issue with the increasing tendency to see our fellow humans, not as persons in their own right, but as harvestable biological material.

Do I think it is any coincidence that some lawmakers are suggesting commuting sentences for prisoners who consent to be live organ donors?  Or that the AMA wants to look at financial incentives for organ donation?  Or that it is being proposed that your organ donor sticker on your driver's license supersede any other advanced medical directive or instructions you may have in place?

Once we began looking at some human lives as harvestable biological material, namely human embryos and those in a persistive vegetative state, then we all start looking like meat for the harvest as well.

Watch out.  There are some people want you to lose weight not just so that you can be healthy, but so that your organs can be available for someone else as well.

Rebecca Taylor blogs at Mary Meets Dolly

Painful Video Alert: James Lipton Advises Romney on Relating to People

This isn't just plain ol' asshattery. This is a crowning achievement that will be remarked upon with glee by asshats for generations.

James Lipton of "Inside the Actors Studio" lectures Mitt Romney on how to relate to people. You know, because when I think common man I think James Lipton. It actually says little about Romney but all you'll ever want to know about James Lipton, who not only criticizes Romney but Ronald Reagan too.

What a jerk.

I'm sure all of Lipton's friends will huzzah him for this pointed barb but I'm telling you that if I had a choice of watching this on YouTube again or watching skateboarders damage their junk on handrails, I'm choosing exploding junk on handrails every time. Yeah, it's that painful.

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Obama "Strongly Objects" To Bill Protecting Military Chaplains From Gay Marriage

Obama "strongly objects" to the House's attempt to put forth a defense authorization bill that would protect military chaplains from any repercussions from refusing to perform gay marriages.

(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration “strongly objects” to provisions in a House defense authorization bill that would prohibit the use of military property for same-sex “marriage or marriage-like” ceremonies, and protect military chaplains from negative repercussions for refusing to perform ceremonies that conflict with their beliefs, according to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

In a policy statement released Wednesday, the OMB outlined numerous objections to aspects of the fiscal year 2013 National Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 4310). The bill was reported out of the House Armed Services Committee last week and is set to be debated in the House, beginning Wednesday.
Overall, it recommends that President Obama veto H.R. 4310 if its cumulative effects “impede the ability of the Administration to execute the new defense strategy and to properly direct scarce resources.”

The veto warning is not specifically linked to the two provisions dealing with marriage, but they are listed among parts of the bill which the administration finds objectionable.

Catholic Mom Refuses Abortion After Cancer Diagnosis

This is the kind of story that's just too amazing to pass up. I know we see stories like this every once in a while but that doesn't make them any less amazing.

It's just so...counter cultural.

The Daily Mail reports:

A pregnant mother diagnosed with lung cancer who refused to abort her baby to save her own life has given birth to a healthy daughter and is now cancer-free.

Daniella Jackson, 21, was diagnosed with a tumour in her left lung shortly before discovering she was pregnant with her second child.

Doctors told Miss Jackson, who has never smoked a cigarette in her life, that they urgently needed to remove the 4cm-long tumour - a type usually found in people over 60.

However, medics at Nottingham City Hospital refused to operate while she was expecting and told her to terminate her pregnancy to save herself.
But Miss Jackson, a devout Catholic from Aspley, Nottingham, refused and gave birth to a healthy baby daughter.

Four weeks later, she was able to have the life-saving operation to remove half her lung. Now both mother and daughter Rennae, four months, are cancer free.

Ha! Obama Leads by 7...In Primary!

The Weekly Standard is reporting that a new poll of Arkansas Democrats shows Barack Obama receiving support from only 45 percent of Democratic primary voters in Arkansas’s Fourth Congressional District.

Just 7 points behind him is his Democratic primary opponent. That's seven points behind with 17 percent undecided.

Please. Please. Let those folks come out and vote for Tennessee lawyer John Wolfe, Jr. This would be hilarious if he were to lose a state, especially the home of Bill Clinton.

Hey, Obama nearly lost to a prison inmate in West Virginia. That awesome story was ignored by the media but if Obama were to lose in Arkansas, he wouldn't be on the ballot. That would be something the media couldn't ignore.

Wolfe is anti-Obamacare and pro-traditional marriage. He said "the momentum is good.”

Wolfe is also competing against Obama in Texas’s May 29 primary.

Please. Please. Please. Let this happen. Just so we could laugh and watch the media try to spin this.

Chen Guangcheng's Nephew Arrested on Phony Murder Charges

This is horrible. According to Spero, Chen Kegui, nephew of the blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng, was arrested by police in Shandong on sham murder charges.

So while the media has reported that Gunagchang's life was going to essentially be Disneyland from this day forward, the reality is a bit different.

China has said that Guangcheng can go anywhere and do whatever he wants, but now China arrests his nephew to control him. This is shameless. He's reportedly been denied access to his family lawyer and his wife has been placed under house arrest.

Chen Kegui is accused of "intentional homicide" because during the dissident's escape, he used a knife in self-defence against agents and unidentified people who burst into his uncle's home, slightly wounding some of the attackers. Why he was charged with homicide is unclear since no one died.

But he could be facing the death penalty.

This is nothing short of a disgrace which stems from the tyrannical nature of China's government and the cowardice of the Obama administration which essentially forced him to leave the US embassy where he was hiding.

The Obama administration never knew what to make of Chen because he wasn't their kind of human rights activist. He stood up against forced abortion and sterilization. Now, if only Chen was standing up for free contraception, then maybe Obama would be all for him.

War In Europe

I wish to once again be on record that I think the likelihood of war in Europe within the next 10 years is high. The economy and the political situation is going in the wrong direction. Mountains of debt, electing socialists, sticking their heads in the sand. What comes next? Scapegoating of course. Can't have a crisis with millions of very unhappy Europeans without a scapegoat.

I don't expect war in the WWII sense, but perhaps various civil wars that cross over borders.

Things are gonna get ugly. Europeans have been doing this forever and we are fools to think that they (or any humans) have evolved beyond this. No, things are gonna get ugly.

And you know what the US will do about it? Absolutely nothing.

Now if you buy me 7 or 8 beers sometime, I will tell you what I think comes after that. After that, things get really interesting. Another time.

Update: I say it here, it comes out there.
Victor Davis Hanson

Not since 1940 has Europe found itself so weak and incoherent in comparison to a unified and solvent Germany. And the present disconnect of nations that did most things wrong publicly demonizing Germans for doing most things right — while privately begging them for more bailout cash and guarantees — simply is politically untenable. If this continues, I would not be surprised to see a Mediterranean Franco, Salazar, Mussolini, or Metaxas emerge soon, albeit in pinstripes and with a tasteful villa on the Mediterranean.

The lead-from-behind U.S. is of little or no help.