4/2/08
VIRGLE UPDATE !!
O.K.
This guy can have my spot. He seems to really need it!
On the other hand, I can personally supply half the number they're looking for...
4/1/08
CHOOSE ME
(Mudassir A. Khan )
My rotting body in my grave, proves
Rigor mortis of your spirit!
I want to claim that it is dark in here, but,
I do not remember the light to compare it with.
I watched and helplessly pled silently,
Wondering how is it that people,
Get away with murder all the time!
I wish you were here to brush these worms.
And wipe the mud from my soiled face
Caused by the dripped rain in here.
Tell me for what crime was I punished?
Why such harsh sentence on me?
You are obsessed with things that deny reason!
Why did you choose to kill me?
Instead of pushing a baby carriage,
You’d rather adventure walking your favorite dog!!
My decomposing brain has the right to ask:
‘Why was I not allowed to be born’?
I wish you were pro-life
And not pro-death!
You could have given me for adoption!
You took away my right to live.
Is your world really better without me?
I wonder if you even gave me a name!
Or am I more null and void
Than the cancelled checks that you do keep!
(The Arizona Conservative http://www.azconservative.org/Khan_Poem.htm)
Richard Branson, Always thinking...!
I realize its late in the day but...
"...Some people are calling Virgle an 'interplanetary Noah's Ark,'" said Virgin Group President and Founder Sir Richard Branson, who conceived the new venture. "I'm one of them. It's a potentially remarkable business, but more than that, it's a glorious adventure. For me, Virgle evokes the spirit of explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Marco Polo, who set sail looking for the New World. I do hope we'll be a bit more efficient about actually finding it, though."
I'm pretty sure I'd be an excellent candidate!
CHRC - Rights for 'Special' People
Lorne Gunter's piece today in the "Calgary Herald" on the HRC debacle:
"...All you need to know about how rotten the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) is -- how undemocratic and anti-freedom it has become -- is that in hate-speech complaints, the commission has a 100 per cent conviction rate..."
Also, from Grant Brown at "Western Standard":
"..Given that the physical differences between men and women are obvious to everyone, whereas psychological differences are difficult to prove and hotly contested, this way of placing the onus is puzzling at best. It reveals that what is really behind these decisions is neither principled equality nor principled anti-discrimination, but rather special pleading for the politically correct group..."
Calling Out Condoms
African 'abstinence' advocates tell the 'rubber' to 'hit the road':
By Hilary White DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, March 31, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com)
A project promoting chastity instead of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDS in Tanzania has caught the attention of authorities. Three billboard signs, bearing a photo of a grinning skeleton on a red background with the caption, "Faithful Condom User" in English and Swahili, were erected by an African affiliate of Human Life International (HLI) and local authorities are "going ballistic".The caption is a send-up of the so-called "ABC" slogan commonly applied by the international aid organisations: "Abstain, Be faithful, use Condoms". With the minimum of ten percent failure rate for latex condoms, even when "correctly" used, and the 100 per cent fatality rate of AIDS, many experts have denounced the condom doctrine as a death trap. Nevertheless, critics have called the ABC slogan, devised to appease the critics of condom promotion, disingenuous and racist, saying it implies that the goals of chastity are unrealistic for Africans. HLI says that one large billboard was placed near a main road in the capital city of Dar es Salaam while two smaller versions were put up elsewhere in the city. Fr. Tom Euteneuer writes, "While we presumed that this message and graphic would be controversial, we didn't expect the international condom lobby to go utterly ballistic over it!"Tanzania is one of the countries especially targeted by the international population control movement that has been active in promoting condom use for AIDS prevention. On Tuesday, the main newspaper in Tanzania, The Citizen, ran a story that described the response from "high-profile" international condom-promoting organizations like the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, Family Health International, Population Services International and others as "up in arms" and government officials as "jolted." The paper reports that the chairman of the Tanzania Commission for AIDS was "furious" at the billboards and that members of the Prime Minister's office are holding meetings to discuss an "urgent intervention" to suppress and censor the signs. Fr. Euteneuer said, "When the power structure of an entire country is rallied against us, that's a sure sign that we're right!"Given the response, Human Life International is appealing for funds to expand the project. $24,000 will enable the group to fund billboards in Kenya and Cameroon but Fr. Euteneuer says they want to expand the project to 55 countries in total.For information on how to donate to Human Life International:
Meanwhile the US 'abstinence' advocates have serious competition in Planned Parenthood's 'sex for teens' programs. (http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08033107.html)
3/31/08
The Concern Is Real.
It seems to me that the only people seriously looking at the dangers inherent in an embedded ‘bill of human rights’ and its ‘human rights commission’ IS the Cayman Minister’s Assoc. I attended the presentation they gave, hosted by the UDP,( I understand that they have given all their information to the gov’t as well.) It was a very well researched and lucid presentation. It was backed up by a reference of documents and articles with specific cases from the UK and Canada. It was intelligently presented and discussed, and the intention was to bring some awareness of what is truly at stake and to seek a way, within the framework of ‘what is possible’ to protect Cayman, and avoid the social nightmare of our brothers overseas.
It is not a ‘partisan’ concern. It’s a concern about the basic right of Caymanians to express and live their lives according to their own beliefs. Protection of freedom .
Some would have us believe it’s all about imposing belief on others. Not so. It’s about retaining the ability to maintain our own beliefs.
Others would have us believe that there is nothing to BE concerned about. A ‘bill of rights’ is all good. No evil ever could come of it.
Is that the experience of the rest of the world? NO. The U.K. and Canada , for example, are constantly in conflict because of their courts’ ‘interpretations’ of rights. Canada is currently being embarrassed by its HRC’s seeming indifference to rights of those it doesn’t ‘agree’ with, their social activism, and their penchant for politically correct decisions (as opposed to ‘just’ ones).
It seems to me that the only people seriously looking at the dangers inherent in an embedded ‘bill of human rights’ and its ‘human rights commission’ IS the Cayman Minister’s Assoc. I attended the presentation they gave, hosted by the UDP,( I understand that they have given all their information to the gov’t as well.) It was a very well researched and lucid presentation. It was backed up by a reference of documents and articles with specific cases from the UK and Canada. It was intelligently presented and discussed, and the intention was to bring some awareness of what is truly at stake and to seek a way, within the framework of ‘what is possible’ to protect Cayman, and avoid the social nightmare of our brothers overseas.
It is not a ‘partisan’ concern. It’s a concern about the basic right of Caymanians to express and live their lives according to their own beliefs. Protection of freedom .
Some would have us believe it’s all about imposing belief on others. Not so. It’s about retaining the ability to maintain our own beliefs.
Others would have us believe that there is nothing to BE concerned about. A ‘bill of rights’ is all good. No evil ever could come of it.
Is that the experience of the rest of the world? NO. The U.K. and Canada , for example, are constantly in conflict because of their courts’ ‘interpretations’ of rights. Canada is currently being embarrassed by its HRC’s seeming indifference to rights of those it doesn’t ‘agree’ with, their social activism, and their penchant for politically correct decisions (as opposed to ‘just’ ones).
Society in both countries has undergone extreme societal changes in the last 30 years, and much of it has been engineered through the ‘rights’ movement. And no, it’s not the rights of the poor that the EU and the UN are all ‘het up’ about. They wish to ensure that every member country has adequate ‘reproductive health’ rights(a.k.a. ABORTION) and not surprisingly, this seems to go hand in hand with ‘making’ everyone ‘respect’ homosexuality. Not homosexuals themselves as individuals, but homosexuality itself. We ‘must’ acknowledge that every woman has the right to abort if she chooses, and we 'must' acknowledge homosexuality as a valid lifestyle. This is not scaremongering. One has only to ‘google’ UN activities to read from their own reporting, their activities over the last several years to ensure this.
Currently, in the UK and Canada, a person’s ability to speak his mind, teach his child, preach a sermon, hire his employees, wear his religious symbols in public, protect his child from propaganda supporting ‘alternative’ lifestyles, write a magazine article that contains ‘the potential to offend’ someone, or to know when your minor daughter is arranging an abortion, has been curtailed and sometimes punished. Again, a cursory look at what HRC’s decisions have been, how they conduct business, and HOW THEY LOOK FOR COMPLAINANTS willing to further their social agenda, informs one as to the overall intent of a ‘bill of rights’. Social engineering ?
The actual need of a ‘bill of rights’ in this age is NOT clear. What actual rights are currently withheld? Which ‘rights’are not addressed in legislation already enacted?
It behooves Caymanians to take this seriously. If we don’t the U.K. will continue to take a hard line. There is no compelling reason for all Overseas Territories to ‘fall in line’ with Britain – other than they want us to. It has to do with THEIR international obligations. How about Poland.? Poland doesn’t let it’s membership in the EU and the UN, infringe on the rights of the Polish people to live according to their conscience. In spite of their international responsibilities, Poland has so far managed to protect the freedom of it’s people to live freely . (Having fought so long to acquire it!)
WHAT DO WE WANT. Let’s at least go into this with our eyes open. Let’s at least ask for the best , instead of settling for what ‘seems o.k.’ Compromise is ok for those who don’t believe anything. Nothing lost. Is it o.k. for us? Is Cayman a relativistic society or a rational one? Do we have our own sense of 'right' and 'wrong' or do we require the EU and the UK to impose their 'sense' on us?
Let’s see some stories in the local media that highlight some of the difficulties that have arisen in the UK and Canada. Let’s get some advice from someone who isn’t advocating FOR an embedded ‘bill of rights’. Let’s be intelligent enough to learn from the agony of others. Let’s protect our identity and freedom, at least as well as Poland, and better than the U.K. And please , let’s not become a quagmire of state sponsored and imposed ‘political correctness’ , like Canada!
3/29/08
PC Eugenics
"...With the development of prenatal genetic diagnosis, the drive toward eugenics has returned with a vengeance. Americans may heartily cheer participants in the Special Olympics, but we abort some 90 percent of all gestating infants diagnosed with genetic disabilities such as DS, dwarfism, and spina bifida. Not only that, but a study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2005 found that of the approximately 5,000 babies born with DS annually, only about 625 were born to mothers who knew of their baby's condition before birth. Together, these figures suggest that under the regimen of universal prenatal genetic testing urged upon us by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the number of DS babies born each year could plummet below 1,000..."
3/28/08
Are You Listening Canada?
Its True! Senator Edward Kennedy did a 'stand up' thing. Kennedy has backed Senator Brownback in a bill aimed at reducing the number of abortions for 'reason' of potential genetic abnormalities.http://www.illinoisfamily.org/news/contentview.asp?c=33816
The new legislation would allow the setting up of a registry for those willing to adopt, and provide liason with support agencies for parents of children with Down's Syndrome (for example).
That's a bit better than suggesting that abortion may be the best 'choice' in the 'support' brochure!
Bill Of Rights Mandatory for Cayman - UK
That was the headline here, today. I've been saying that was the case, since I've read the transcripts of what the minister for Overseas Territories says about us in parliament. He's very reassuring....Cayman will follow our step. no fear!
Why then the charade of public forums?
The gov't has to maintain a veneer of 'independant' thought, or Caymanians may get antsy. They just may decide they'd rather not be aligned with Britain anymore. Anyone making money from banking (lots) would be very disturbed by this. Very. Doom and gloom would follow.
What to do?
As an overseas territory, we are expected to follow the EU convention, though it is not enforceable currently under our local law. This I presume, is the purpose for the insistence on embedding a 'Bill of Rights' in our 'renewed' constitution.
We are being sold down the river (to the UN and the EU) by our 'mother' country. Our stated choices are 1) comply 2) go independant.
Having researched the societal trauma suffered by the UK and Canada in recent years, at the hands of those pursuing 'rights', I shudder to think of the shock our humble Caymanians will have to endure. The ex-pats (who make up a fluctuating 50%) will feel more and more at home. Sigh.
On Deck for the Pope...
The Archdiocese of New York is very, very, excited about Pope Benedict's upcoming visit. So much so, that they have included in the run-up, a Papal Skateboard Art Design Contest!
Check out the entries at:http://www.archny.org/papalvisit/papal-skateboard-art-design-contest/ (h/t americanpapist)
WHO'S RIGHT? (is it)
Finally, someone on the right track....
"...One of the basic purposes of BC Parents and Teachers for Life, as spelled out in our constitution, is to support the legitimate rights of parents as the prime educators of their chilren. Not the provincial government, not school boards, not teachers' unions, but parents have the first responsibility in providing for their children's education. Nevertheless, what we are witnessing in practice is the infringement of parents' rights as regards the public schools. This infringement is taking place due to the increasing influence of groups whose special interests are in harmony neither with the interests of students nor of parents; nor, indeed, with the interests of citizens as a whole, who are paying for the costs of the public school system..."
...contrasted with these jokers in the UK:
To Be ot Not To Be...
Jeanne Chabot gives a personal perspective on cultural messages about pregnancy:
"...So what are we doing then, to ensure that women who DON'T want to have to choose between their own quality of life and the life of their child don't have to? Do we just offer abortion, call it the last resort solution and then leave women to choose without giving them any other viable solution? Do we offer unconditional support to pregnant women, or do we oggle ..."
3/27/08
A Mommy AND A Daddy!
Steven Malanga of City Journal discusses the root of poverty issues in the US:
"..Given that a significant body of research now shows that children raised in two-parent, married families do better in school, are less likely to wind up in jail, and are less likely to end up on welfare, the startling racial divide in marriage tells us that a new generation of children, especially blacks, are growing up destined to struggle academically, in the job market, and in forming their own families. And policy prescriptions like a higher minimum wage or tax credits are unlikely to help many of these kids. What they mostly need is another parent—usually a father... "
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0321sm.html
"..Given that a significant body of research now shows that children raised in two-parent, married families do better in school, are less likely to wind up in jail, and are less likely to end up on welfare, the startling racial divide in marriage tells us that a new generation of children, especially blacks, are growing up destined to struggle academically, in the job market, and in forming their own families. And policy prescriptions like a higher minimum wage or tax credits are unlikely to help many of these kids. What they mostly need is another parent—usually a father... "
http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0321sm.html
Channeling The Pope...
A 'heads up' from 'the curt jester', on media arrangements for the Pope's upcoming visit (US):
CHRC Proceedings - Ezra Levant
Ezra Levant writes about Tuesday's 'hearing' at the CHRC:
"..Steacy did make a few embarrassing admissions. But the bulk of his answers -- just like the bulk of Warman's answers on cross examination last year -- were "I don't remember" or variants thereof. Some of the things he didn't remember were investigative actions he did mere weeks ago; some of them related to standing policies of the CHRC. No matter; he just brazened it out with forgetfulness.
Stop to think about how important the integrity of investigations is in real courts -- how the chain of custody of evidence is maintained under lock and key; how every test and inspection is documented; the extreme lengths police go to, to avoid giving the accused grounds for objecting to any evidence, including oral evidence like confessions. None of that integrity is present in the CHRC; Steacy, Warman and the others don't even bother keeping notes -- or, if they do, they simply "forgot" to disclose them, like Goldberg forgot to disclose 300 pages until after his court appearance..."
Stop to think about how important the integrity of investigations is in real courts -- how the chain of custody of evidence is maintained under lock and key; how every test and inspection is documented; the extreme lengths police go to, to avoid giving the accused grounds for objecting to any evidence, including oral evidence like confessions. None of that integrity is present in the CHRC; Steacy, Warman and the others don't even bother keeping notes -- or, if they do, they simply "forgot" to disclose them, like Goldberg forgot to disclose 300 pages until after his court appearance..."
Faith and Reason
Donald DeMarco writes a tribute to Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem, who exemplified 'scholarship wed to sanctity':
"In a most unusual tribute to Pierre Duhem, Francis Kelly has produced a biography in verse form of this faithful Catholic, physicist, mathematician, philosopher and historian that ends with the following words:
“Though he has gone, we feel his wraith
Inspiring us to trust our faith
And, with his courage, life to face
Now in our time and in our place.
And now it’s time to say amen
And end this story of Duhem.” "
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/catholic_stories/cs0269.htm
"In a most unusual tribute to Pierre Duhem, Francis Kelly has produced a biography in verse form of this faithful Catholic, physicist, mathematician, philosopher and historian that ends with the following words:
“Though he has gone, we feel his wraith
Inspiring us to trust our faith
And, with his courage, life to face
Now in our time and in our place.
And now it’s time to say amen
And end this story of Duhem.” "
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/catholic_stories/cs0269.htm
3/25/08
Thorn in Brown's Side
"The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, has called for a free vote "because Catholics and others will want to vote according to their consciences", while Scotland's Cardinal Keith O'Brien has described plans to allow the creation of part-human, part-animal embryos as "monstrous".
"It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which more comprehensively attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill," he said."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/24/nembryo324.xml
"It is difficult to imagine a single piece of legislation which more comprehensively attacks the sanctity and dignity of human life than this particular Bill," he said."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/24/nembryo324.xml
Obama Is Not King
This video, Protecting Black Life ,explains the Martin Luther King family's stance on abortion, and how it affects the black population in America. Could anything be more opposed to Barack Obama's position?
http://www.protectingblacklife.org/video/episode_213_video.htm
http://www.protectingblacklife.org/video/episode_213_video.htm
1200 black babies are murdered in the womb EACH DAY in America. Why is Barack Obama SUPPORTING this tragedy?
Abortions Hurt Men Too
A different perspective from the Jamaica Observer:
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20080315T200000-0500_133577_OBS_ABORTIONS_HURT_MEN_TOO.asp
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20080315T200000-0500_133577_OBS_ABORTIONS_HURT_MEN_TOO.asp
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