Planned Parenthood Sues, Claims Right to Taxpayer Funding

Two Planned Parenthoods are joining together to sue the state of Tennessee in an effort to force the state to continue giving them taxpayer money.

Do they have a right to taxpayer money? It would seem they certainly believe so. Mind you, I understand why they might think so since the Obama administration has threatened to shut down the government, threatened to removed Medicare funding for the poor, and sued on PP's behalf in order to ensure the abortionists receive taxpayer money.

One could understand a feeling of entitlement when the world's most powerful man is your punk.

And, of course, the media has their back. Check out the lede from The Tennessean:

Abortion opponents are claiming another victory in the battle to defund Planned Parenthood by excluding it from state and federal funding for HIV and syphilis prevention programs.

But the nonprofit is fighting back.

It's like David vs. Goliath, doncha' know.

Those big powerful pro-lifers with all the power of the White House and the media behind them attempt to stomp out a group of people gathered together because they believe in a cause greater than themselves.

Oh wait...Strike that. Reverse it.

The two Tennessee Planned Parenthoods sued the state for denying them more than $150,000 in grant money to participate in programs funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Planned Parenthood wants a federal judge to intervene and asked for an injunction against the state.

How much you wanna' bet they get it?

The report said that the state's defunding was "based solely on an aversion to abortion." Gasp! How dare you penalize us for tearing babies apart when pretty much all we do is tear babies apart!!!

Hey, remember when the USCCB balked about losing grants to help sex trafficking victims based solely on the fact that they didn't provide abortions? The left didn't seem to care all that much. They yelled that the bishops didn't have a right to public funding. But somehow it's out of bounds to suggest that Planned Parenthood should not be funded because they do perform abortions.

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Military Issues Gag Order On Catholics

My mantra, the soft tyranny of big government turned hard.

Military Chaplains are being forbidden from reading the letter from the bishops protesting the HHS mandate. If they do, they are considered seditious. ht Gateway.

The emerging conflict between the Catholic Church and the Obama administration may have a new front: in the U.S. military itself.

The Catholic Church is fighting mad about an HHS ruling that would have them buy insurance for things they consider sinful–contraception, sterilization and abortion.

All the bishops in the country sent out a letter to be read in their parishes promising that the Church “cannot-and will not-comply with this unjust law.”

Even Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who is in charge of Catholic military chaplains sent out the same letter.

But after he did, the Army’s Office of the Chief of Chaplains sent out another communication forbidding Catholic priests to read the letter, in part because it seemed to encourage civil disobedience, and could be read as seditious against the Commander-in-Chief.

More than one Catholic chaplain who spoke to us off the record confirmed that many chaplains disobeyed this instruction and read the letter anyway. Others sought further instructions from their Archbishop.

Planned Parenthood Thanks Komen

I know there's plenty of pro-lifers hoping that Komen hasn't reversed itself on defunding Planned Parenthood with their latest statement that they're revising their funding criteria.

Good Christian people always want to think the best of others. And that's good. But in this case I urge folks to just stop. We sometimes act like teenagers who just got dumped who swear that she's coming back. But she's not coming back. She's been making the back window of some dude's 1992 Honda CRV all steamy for weeks now.

I know lots of folks don't want to think Komen buckled. But you know who thinks they have? Planned Parenthood. Cecile Richards released a love letter to Komen today. I would put the whole thing down but I'm too sickened so I'll just cut out the key graf:

“In recent weeks, the treasured relationship between the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation and Planned Parenthood has been challenged, and we are now heartened that we can continue to work in partnership toward our shared commitment to breast health for the most underserved women. We are enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers. What these past few days have demonstrated is the deep resolve all Americans share in the fight against cancer, and we honor those who are at the helm of this battle.

Let's not tie ourselves in knots trying to believe the best of Komen. They buckled to the death fetishists.

Do you really think that Cecile Richards would be all buddy buddy unless Planned Parenthood was getting mad cash again. Only two things make Planned Parenthood happy. Mad cash and dead babies. They've found a clever way to unite their two passions. And Komen is helping. Again.

Here's a good rule of thumb. If Planned Parenthood is happy about something I'm usually ticked off about it. And vice versa. Planned Parenthood is backing up the money truck to Komen again and they're thrilled. So I'm not.

When they go through the next grant process I bet Planned Parenthood will get something. It might not be as much as they used to this time. But they'll get something.

Caveat: Look, I'm hoping on wrong on this. Nobody would be happier to be wrong. If I am I promise to post a pic of myself here with a sign saying "I"m a cynical jerk." But something tells me I won't be breaking out the poster board and Sharpies any time soon.

Update: Pelosi Calls Komen Reversal on Planned Parenthood Funding a “Big Victory”…

Craven For the Cure: Komen Caves To Pro-Abort Pressure

Update:Some have tried to suggest that Komen’s statement is nuanced and does not necessarily mean what almost everyone thinks it means. Bottom line. 4 days ago PP was ineligible for future grants, now they are eligible, with apologies. Will PP get future grants from Komen? Almost certainly. If it looks like a cave, deep, dark, and cold. It is probably a cave.

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Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/pat-archbold/craven-for-the-cure-komen-caves-to-pro-abort-pressure#ixzz1lLP1qwtw
It was nice while it lasted, all of four days. A very well known charity dropped support for the abortion industry. Yay. Pro-lifers cheer and donate money in record amounts (purportedly doubling donations after the announcement).

Cue the MSM and Planned Parenthood owned politician outrage and the the well known charity reverses course. Four measly days! Hey guess what, donating breast cancer money to a company that causes breast cancer and does not perform mammograms is a really good idea after all.

This is the height of politically correct groveling...

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Bill Gates Wants to Destroy Your Sperm

Here's what I know about Bill Gates. He likes money and doesn't seem to like people.

The Examiner reports:

The latest research into a way to destroy human sperm has been funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that could provide men effective contraception for six months.

The Gates Foundation has funded a study at the University of North Carolina (UNC) to develop the new technology. The method used in the research tested ultra sound on lab rats. Two 15-minute doses has been reported to “significantly reduce” sperm count and sperm integrity.

Dude, when you come up with a computer system that doesn't fry the computer, then maybe people will let you monkey with their bizness.

Or maybe that's what Gates is good at -frying systems.

What is it with some of these guys with lots of money? They've got nothing else to worry about so they obsess over the abundance of people who are not them. Ted Turner is so obsessed with overpopulation he predicted we'd all be cannibals by next August or something. Bill Gates has probably spent billions to eradicate the scourge of humanity that dares to share the planet with him.

Is it that they look out in the world and stress that nobody else in the world match up to their glory so they figure they've got to rid the world of such filth?

For some reason, so many people say they worry about the hungry. They say there's only so much food and too many people. But instead of figuring out how to increase the food supply they immediately jump to making less people.

And I love how their work at population control is classified as humanitarian. It's a lot of things but humanitarian it ain't. In fact, isn't that exactly the opositte of what it is. Isn't it anti-human?

Oh No! Komen Caves! Will Fund P. Parenthood

Disaster. Komen has caved and has reversed the decision not to fund Planned Parenthood. Cowards.

We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives.

The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.

Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.

Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer . Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.

It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics - anyone's politics.

Starting this afternoon, we will have calls with our network and key supporters to refocus our attention on our mission and get back to doing our work. We ask for the public's understanding and patience as we gather our Komen affiliates from around the country to determine how to move forward in the best interests of the women and people we serve.

We extend our deepest thanks for the outpouring of support we have received from so many in the past few days and we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.

They must immediately refund all the donations that have received from pro-lifers! Cowards.

Are The Bishops The Problem?

Following the decision of the Obama Administration's HHS department to dispense with religious liberty and force religious groups to violate their consciences, it seems the Bishops are roused from their slumber. It seems. I am not so sure. They may still be asleep.

Many Bishops have been speaking out and calling for Catholics and Christians of all stripes to contact the Obama administration and demand a revision to the conscience clause in the mandate. If that is their argument, they have already lost the argument. They might win the battle, either through the courts or the election year largess of the emperor, but the war is lost.

In order to win the argument they must change the argument. In order to change and win the argument, the battle, and ultimately the war, the Bishops need to understand that they were wrong, completely wrong. They were wrong when they supported the health care bill in the first place.

Back in 2009, the Bishops ...

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Newt's Complaints Show Why He Might Not Be Ready for Obama

Politics is about money. I've been involved in enough campaigns to understand that. The main job of a candidate in any political race is to raise money. It's not to give speeches. It's not to talk to the press. Those are small parts of the job compared to the time you have to spend asking rich people for money.

That's why when Newt Gingrich complains that he's being outspent I kinda' sorta' think that it's just too bad because your job is to raise money. Did he not know that?

Gingrich told the media that he was not surprised by his defeat in Florida because he was outspent 5-to-1 by Romney.

"We are going to pit people power against money power in this campaign," Gingrich said. "Governor Romney cannot continue to outspend us 5-to-1." Uhm. Yeah. He can. He's that rich. And he's pretty good at raising money.

Look, whoever is going to go up against Obama better darn well be awesome at raising money because Obama's going to spend about a billion dollars on this campaign.

And if Newt wins the nomination we don't have the luxury to sit and cry with him that he's being outspent by that mean ol' Obama. That's how the game is played. That's the job of a candidate. If Newt can't raise enough money to be competitive with Mitt then there's no way he's going to be able to raise enough money to compete with Obama. Oh yeah, he'll have his "people power," whatever that is.

The fact is that advertising time on television and radio is expensive and as many people say that they don't listen to political ads, lots more folks do. Candidates spend millions on ads for one reason. They work.

Those who don't have the money to buy ads talk about "people power."

Look, making calls to raise money stinks like skunkburgers. It's humiliating for many candidates. They just don't like doing it. They hate it.

But it seems to me that Mitt is pretty good at it. And if Newt wants to compete he better get good at it too. Because Obama's really good at it. And the more he complains about being outspent by Mitt the more I think he's just not ready for prime time.

Patrick On The Radio

I will be on the radio in a few minutes on the "The Mike Janocik Show" discussing the HHS mandate. (5:30PM ET to 6PM ET)

Listen here!

Devout Pelosi: I Stand With Catholics In Support Of HHS Mandate

Evil with a facelift.

Audio is difficult to hear, so here is the transcript.

QUESTION:

"The administration has issued a regulation that will require all healthcare plans to cover sterilization and all FDA approved contraceptives including those that induce abortions. This will force Catholic individuals and institutions to act against their consciences. All across the nation..”

PELOSI:

"Is this a speech or do we have a question disguised as speech?"

QUESTION:

We cannot and will not comply with this law.

Will you stand with your fellow Catholics in opposing this law?

PELOSI:

I'm going to stand with my fellow Catholics in supporting the administration on this. I think it was a very courageous decision that they made and I support it.

Can we excommunicate her now? Now? Now!!



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