Abortion has become just another form of contraception as the US Supreme Court designated it in a decision is the 80′s. They ruled that legal abortion is necessary if contraception fails. In other words, we have a right to eliminate a child who will infringe on our lives!

Why would it not follow that those who will take a larger bite out of the “health care” apple at the end of their lives not be euthanized. Afterall, if they infringe on our ability to enjoy all the material goods we desire, then, just like abortion which eliminates an “inconvenience”, we should have the right to “eliminate” the infirmed, or the handicapped, or the “less than perfect”.

McCain is far from perfect, but while he is pro-life with a few exceptions, Obama is pro-abortion with NO exceptions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RZVw3no2A4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5z9lD4C2Io&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_313445

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivmL-lXNy64

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs

Also, GWB tried several times to get Fannie/Fannie regulated, and the Democratic Party refused.

Instead of leveling the playing fields and just saying everybody is to blame in some way, we have to put blame where it belongs. When we go to confession, does the priest tell us that the church is just as culpable for our sins? Hardly.

We didn’t win the Cold War by saying that in our own way we were just as bad as the Soviet Union. We won it because Ronald Regan, Margaret Thatcher, and His Holiness John Paul II recognized that the Soviet Union was an Evil Empire, and treated it as one.

We need to stop indifferently assigning blame, and start fighting evil. We are Davids, and it’s time to take down Goliath.

Of prior published stuff, like the timeline, please give reference (biblio-style) info. It credits the source.

I am at times wljewell, Warren Jewell and Pristinus Sapienter.

And, of the whole Fannie-Freddie fiasco, at any time GWB could have vetoed bills to get Democratic attention to lots of fiascoes. Both parties are fully culpable, here.

Plus, Neil Cavuto of Fox Business warned that one bailout will never be enough, that everybody else will act to get on the new socialistic gravy train. Notice the Dow bottoming out? One more set of GIM-ME crowd looking to get ‘bailed out’. Just like in the ’30s New Deal, no one will do anything of their own strength and volition without looking to get governmental socialistic largesse.

While discussing abortion and then praying the rosary in the car for ending abortion, I broke into the rosary to give a further explanation about something.

My 8 year old son said simply but purposefully, “Enough talking, let’s get back to praying.”

Thanks to all for the reminders that prayer, fasting, and the witness of a Christian life are the only lasting weapons to conquer Evil.

Warren, I know you live the Passion throughout your day. Persevere to the end….Are you Pristinius Sapier?

Oh! And we like to make The Sign of the Cross with our first three fingers together. The Orthodox do that to further emphasize the Trinity.

No, SharG it was the Democrats who through policy and regulation forced banks to take on these high risk loans. They prefer regulation to law because regulations don’t have to go through the legislature. I mean it has oversight from a congressional committee, but it doesn’t go through the entire bill-to-law process that exposes it to public debate the way laws do.

Here is the logic. The logic was that access to credit would help cure poverty. If less-qualified borrowers could get loans, home ownership among minorities would increase. In fact they promised in campaigns that making more credt available to minority businesses and lower-income people would be something they would do. So that was the policy-setting.

The regulatory part was by the feds setting quotas for how many high-risk loans every bank had to provide. Banks that didnt play along were fined, or their merger/aquisition plans would not be approved.

Barack Obama worked for law firm that sued banks for no providing loans to high-rish borrowers.

The Democrats set up Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae to secure the bad paper they were forcing the banks to create.

A few years ago the Republicans tried to warn about this — including McCain — and they wanted to pass laws to rein it in, but the Dems controlled congress so they couldn’t. And of course every time they tried to do so, they were accused of being against the poor.

The problem is the everyone forgot the proverb: The borrower is a slave to the lender.

The CC problem is beyond comprehension. I cannot imagine people having 30, 40k or more in CC debt. Greed, weakness, I don’t know — it sounds like insanity to me. How do they ever sleep? I think I would die of sheer nervousness if I had to live with that.

Here is the timeline.

1977: Pres. Jimmy Carter signs the Community Reinvestment Act into Law. The law pressured financial institutions to extend home loans to those who would otherwise not qualify. The Premise: Home ownership would improve poor and crime-ridden communities and neighborhoods in terms of crime, investment, jobs, etc.

Results: Statistics bear out that it did not help.

1992: Republican representative Jim Leach (IO) warned of the danger that Fannie and Freddie were changing from being agencies of the public at large to money machines for the principals and the stockholding few.

1993: Clinton extensively rewrote Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s rules turning the quasi-private mortgage-funding firms into semi-nationalized monopolies dispensing cash and loans to large Democratic voting blocks and handing favors, jobs and contributions to
Political allies. This potent mix led inevitably to corruption and now the collapse of Freddie and Fannie.

1994: Despite warnings, Clinton unveiled his National Home-Ownership Strategy which broadened the CRA in ways congress never intended.

1995: Congress, about to change from a Democrat majority to Republican, Clinton orders Robert Rubin’s Treasury Dept to rewrite the rules. Robt. Rubin’s Treasury reworked rules, forcing banks to satisfy quotas for sub-prime and minority loans to get a satisfactory CRA rating. The rating was key to expansion or mergers for banks. Loans began to be made on the basis of race and little else.

1997 – 1999: Clinton, bypassing Republicans, enlisted Andrew Cuomo, then Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, allowing Freddie and Fannie to get into the sub-prime market in a BIG way. Led by Rep. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd, congress doubled down on the risk by easing capital limits and allowing them to hold just 2.5% of capital to back their investments vs. 10% for banks. Since they could borrow at lower rates than banks their enterprises boomed.

With incentives in place, banks poured billions in loans into poor communities, often “no doc”, “no income”, requiring no money down and no verification of income. Worse still was the cronyism: Fannie and Freddie became home to out-of work-politicians, mostly Clinton Democrats. 384 politicians got big campaign donations from Fannie and Freddie. Over $200 million had been spent on lobbying and political activities. During
The 1990′s Fannie and Freddie enjoyed a subsidy of as much as $182 Billion, most of it going to principals and shareholders, not poor borrowers as claimed.

Did it work? Minorities made up 49% of the 12.5 million New homeowners but many of those loans have gone bad and the minority homeownership rates are shrinking fast.

1999: New Treasury Secretary, Lawrence Summers, became alarmed at Fannie and Freddie’s excesses. Congress held hearings the ensuing year but nothing was done because Fannie and Freddie had donated millions to key congressmen and radical groups, ensuring no meaningful changes would take place. “We manage our political risk with the same intensity that we manage our credit and interest rate risks,” Fannie CEO Franklin Raines, a former Clinton official and current Barack Obama advisor, bragged to
investors in 1999.

2000: Secretary Summers sent Undersecretary Gary Gensler to Congress seeking an end to the “special status”. Democrats raised a ruckus as did Fannie and Freddie, headed by politically connected CEO’s who knew how to reward and punish. “We think that the statements evidence a contempt for the nation’s housing and mortgage markets” Freddie spokesperson Sharon McHale said. It was the last chance during the Clinton era for
reform.

2001: Republicans try repeatedly to bring fiscal sanity to Fannie and Freddie but Democrats blocked any attempt at reform; especially Rep. Barney Frank and Sen.Chris Dodd who now run key banking committees and were huge beneficiaries of campaign contributions from the mortgage giants.

2003: Bush proposes what the NY Times called “the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago”. Even after discovering a scheme by Fannie and Freddie to overstate earnings by $10.6 billion to boost their bonuses, the Democrats killed reform.

2005: Then Fed chairman Alan Greenspan warns Congress: “We are placing the total financial system at substantial risk”. Sen. McCain, with two others, sponsored a Fannie/Freddie reform bill and said, “If congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system and the economy as a whole”. Sen. Harry Reid accused the GOP; of trying to “cripple the ability of Fannie and Freddie to carry out their mission of expanding homeownership” The bill went nowhere.

2007: By now Fannie and Freddie own or guarantee over HALF of the $12 trillion US mortgage market. The mortgage giants, whose executive suites were top-heavy with former Democratic officials, had been working with Wall St. to repackage the bad loans and sell them to investors. As the housing market fell in ’07, subprime mortgage portfolios suffered major losses. The crisis was on, though it was 15 years in the making.

2008: McCain has repeatedly called for reforming the behemoths, Bush urged reform 17 times. Still the media have repeated Democrats’ talking points about this being a “Republican” disaster. A few Republicans are complicit but Fannie and Freddie were created by Democrats, regulated by Democrats, largely run by Democrats and protected by Democrats. That’s why taxpayers are now being asked for $700 billion!!

In our concerns, we are reminded of the powerful value of family and close community – those who can help work to keep us out of ‘old-folks-warehoused’ facilities and even hospitals, where those of us most vulnerable can easily be ‘run down and terminated’.

How tragically odd and awesomely sad it is to be talking together about this. I look at blood-sugar readings across my day, and realize that my very meter (335 possible stored readings) can betray me. ‘Oh, too far gone (as in, ‘expensive’) – take him away.’

‘Talk clearly, walk as you talk, and, yes, be ready to defend the hope you have in your life, faith and God.’ Carrying a 9mm sidearm is not as (eternally) effective as making the Sign of the Cross. I even modified my Sign to mark me. I say it thus:

“Be so kind, my Lord, as to remind me always of Your Presence in my life.
I (beating my chest), thrice loved, thrice blessed –
+ In the Name of the Father,
+ and of the Son,
+ and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.”

They might miss indubitably noticing the one mark of my Sign – they cannot miss the Trinity of marks to the Sign. If that is taken someday as rebellious defiance, let them ‘then make of the most of it’ – as I will already have done so.

With technology the way it is, there will be no where to hide.

Madeline