Announcement for tonight:
If you are close to San Diego, California
ADF attorney to participate in U. of San Diego marriage debate-"WHAT: Panel debate on same-sex “marriage,” including discussion of Proposition 8, the California Supreme Court’s marriage decision, and marriage in other states
WHEN: Monday, Oct. 6, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m. PDT
WHERE: University of San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, UC Room 107, San Diego
SAN DIEGO — Alliance Defense Fund Senior Vice President Jeffery Ventrella will participate in a panel debate Monday at the University of San Diego on the topic of same-sex “marriage.” The debate will include discussion of Proposition 8, the proposed amendment to the California Constitution regarding marriage, as well as discussion of the California Supreme Court’s recent decision on marriage....A flier for the event is available at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/USDflier.pdf." -ADF has defeated the ACLU in about 80% of cases in the courts!!!
Economy
The other side of the story that Big Media doesn't share with you. Find out what you may be missing to help voters have a more balanced view then putting all the blame solely on Bush and the private sector....
The Economy and what Big Media is not telling you...-Let's go back a "1999 New York Times article." entitled "Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending"-"Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders. The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring. Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits."..."In July, the Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed that by the year 2001, 50 percent of Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's portfolio be made up of loans to low and moderate-income borrowers. Last year, 44 percent of the loans Fannie Mae purchased were from these groups."
Now onto an article just recently published by the from the Boston Globe
Frank's fingerprints are all over the financial fiasco-"'THE PRIVATE SECTOR got us into this mess. The government has to get us out of it."That's Barney Frank's story, and he's sticking to it. As the Massachusetts Democrat has explained it in recent days...The roots of this crisis go back to the Carter administration. That was when government officials, egged on by left-wing activists, began accusing mortgage lenders of racism...The pressure to make more loans to minorities (read: to borrowers with weak credit histories) became relentless. Congress passed the Community Reinvestment Act, empowering regulators to punish banks that failed to "meet the credit needs" of "low-income, minority, and distressed neighborhoods." Lenders responded by loosening their underwriting standards and making increasingly shoddy loans...."Lack of credit history should not be seen as a negative factor," the Fed's guidelines instructed. Lenders were directed to accept welfare payments and unemployment benefits as "valid income sources" to qualify for a mortgage. Failure to comply could mean a lawsuit...Frank blithely declares: "The private sector got us into this mess." Well, give the congressman points for gall. Wall Street and private lenders have plenty to answer for, but it was Washington and the political class that derailed this train. If Frank is looking for a culprit to blame, he can find one suspect in the nearest mirror."
Obama's connection with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ignored in Big Media. The Fact that Bush tried to reform Freddie and Fannie ignored in Big Media.-"In 2003, the Bush administration tried to stop the runaway train of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress. Democrats alone didn’t stop this. No one filibustered the Bush administration’s bill in the Senate; it didn’t have the votes to pass anyway. Likewise in 2006, when Chuck Hagel, John McCain, John Sununu, and Elizabeth Dole attempted to fix Fannie and Freddie, Republicans controlled Congress and did nothing to pass this bill. Democrats blocked it, but without some help from Republicans, both efforts would have passed easily.This is not just a Democratic or a Republican party problem at this point, it's everyone's problem."-There is an interesting.
"the TV news media that practically ignored mounting problems – including accounting scandals – at Fannie Mae and her brother Freddie Mac until it was too late."
"prior to this year, the watchdogs at ABC, CBS and NBC found time for only 10 stories on the financial health and management of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
"As if blaming deregulation wasn’t enough, The New York Times online attacked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Sept. 24 for ties to Freddie Mac, but glossed over Sen. Barack Obama’s, D-Ill., connection to Fannie and Freddie. And never mind Barney Frank’s (see related story).The Times story buried campaign contribution figures for both candidates until the very last paragraph of the 1,401 word story. According to the article, since 2004 “Senator Obama has received about $126,000 in contributions from employees of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, while Senator McCain, over the last decade, has received about $22,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.”Obama was the number 2 recipient of contributions from Fannie and Freddie, compared to McCain’s 62 – but the Times didn’t mention that."
"Actually, a little -- two years ago, I warned that the oversight of Fannie and Freddie was, was terrible, that we were facing a crisis because of it, or certainly serious problems"-McCain..."In fact, it was Democrats who blocked Bush administration proposals to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2003. 2003 New York Times article that detailed efforts by Democrats to block reforms: query.nytimes.com"
"In 2004, as The Wall Street Journal declared Fannie Mae was “cooking the books” to the tune of $11 billion dollars, ABC, CBS and NBC were almost silent."
And much more that Big Media is censoring at the expense of the Republican Party which then is at the expense of the unborn, Biblical Traditonal Family Values and religious liberties which then will be at the expense of God's blessings. There is much more like under Bush's tax cuts the rich ended up paying more percentage of the over tax pool. That even though Bush's tax cuts cut taxes for all it ended up that the rich paid higher percentages then others before Bush's tax cuts under Clinton. Something that is obviously missing in Big Media. Just because Bush's tax cuts did give cuts to the rich doesn't mean that the rich are paying less by percentage of all the taxes but rather more then before which goes to show that the Democrat and Big Media painting of Republican's is not exactly on the mark.
Pro-Life vs Obama
Obama's abortion reduction plan in doubt. The Roe vs Wade of Europe and thousands of women are having abortion but no one is talking in the UK.-"Obama said at the Saddleback forum-"The fact is that although we have had a president who is opposed to abortion over the last eight years, abortions have not gone down and that is something we have to address."
Is this true? Pro-lifers already knew this to be false cause this is something we have been excited about since months ago thanks not to Big Media but Conservative Media that abortions have dropped during Bush's presidency and others including Clinton's. But have dropped to a 30 year record low during the Bush presidency but are still astronomically high considering that a child is not a child the moments he/she passes thru the pelvic but are as much a child the day before and the day before that and then before that and so on....This is not above anybodies pay grade even a child could determine a baby is as much alive the day before and months before birth as a baby is afterwards....
Factcheck update
U.S. Abortion Rate at 30-Year Low-"new study reveals abortion rates fell 33 percent in the U.S. over the last 30 years. But the report also reveals there are still significant differences among populations as to who gets an abortion. The Guttmacher Institute's study says while abortions and pregnancies among teenagers has dropped 50 percent, abortion rates are still high among older women with children and poor women. Abortion rates also differed dramatically between racial and economic groups. While abortions did decrease among white women, it did not for those of Latin or African-American descent. Click the play button for comments from Day Gardner of the National Black Pro-Life Union."
U.S. ABORTION RATE CONTINUES LONG-TERM DECLINE, FALLING TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1974; MORE EFFORT STILL NEEDED TO REDUCE UNINTENDED PREGNANCY-Showing the release of this report back in January of 2008 to be published and then published in March of 2008. So Obama had no excuse for his comments!!!
This is done by a pro-Planned Parenthood in philosophy group so there is no pro-life bias here as is evidence by their philosophy. Check into it for yourself.
Sadly, one thing that this study does not indicate is the effectiveness of many pro-life policies that have helped reduce abortions that if Obama becomes president would override everyone by signing into law FOCA.
125,000 more abortions per year under proposed “Freedom of Choice Act”-"With so much attention on the economy, one area of federal legislation that can be overlooked is abortion. An old and dangerous bill that will increase abortions by an enormous amount is being resurrected by abortion advocates: the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). H.R. 1964 and S.1173.FOCA is usually reported as “codifying Roe v. Wade,” but it is much more. Since the Webster and Casey decisions in 1989 and 1992, the Supreme Court has allowed states to limit abortion somewhat by such things as requiring parental involvement and informed consent, prohibiting government funding of most abortion, and more recently outlawing most partial birth abortions.But FOCA tolerates none of this. Advocates and opponents of FOCA all agree that the bill would nullify every legal limit on abortion, state, federal or otherwise. Americans United for Life, as well as the Family Research Council, explain this fact in great detail. Abortion advocates who want FOCA concur: NOW, NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and FOCA sponsor Senator Barbara Boxer all contend that FOCA will strike down all state pro-life laws....CHART (pdf): Combined Reduction in Abortions from State Laws on Parental Involvement, Informed Consent, and Abortion Funding Restrictions...Specifically, if FOCA is passed it will increase abortions by 125,000 more per year in the United States. Since 2004, Dr. Michael New has published studies with the Heritage Foundation showing that a large reduction in abortions can be attributed to these three kinds of laws."
Bush vs Obama on Dr's conscience rights-"So we don't protect a baby who survives an abortion, nor are we to allow parental involvement and now Physicians, Dr's and Health Workers are forced to go against their conscience and encourage what to them is the taking of an innocent human life?!!? These Roe vs Wade defenders are extending Roe vs Wade over parental rights, born alive infant rights, conscience rights, all at the favoring of a women's right to choose at the expense of an unborn child's right to life."-If this is how important a women's right to choose is and Roe vs Wade is then something has gone astray and it sure ain't the innocent life inside of the womb!!!!
And lastly in this blog don't miss the The Roe vs Wade of Europe
Eduardo Verastegui and the unborn vs Obama and YouTube when it comes to the Hispanic pro-life values voters-Star actor in Bella makes a youtube video with an edited and unedited version. Unedited version is yanked from YouTube. It's all in spanish directed to the hispanic values voter to basically not vote for Obama because of the issue of the unborn. If you find these videos distasteful cause it exploits the life ending abuse of the unborn just consider that in times past like the holocaust or the abuses of the slave trade that sometimes its necessary to exploit these things for what they really are in detail for the sake of factual persuasion of others to end these atrcoties. It is one thing that abortion occurs in the context of saving a life of the mother if both are going to die or something like that but it is quite another that babies are treated this way for convenience sake. Abortion should be banned in almost all cases except life saving situations. And an argument could be made that a mother should protect her child's life even if at the expense of her own. Not that this would be an easy decision to make but clearly the more loving thing to do. I think many mothers and fathers would gladly give their lives for the sake of their children and I don't see why this same love can't be extended into the womb. And lastly, we have all sinned and all need forgiveness. Abortion is not the unforgivable sin. King David was forgiven for murdering the husband of the wife that he committed adultery with. Paul was forgiven for persecuting God's own people and many many other examples of great forgiveness in the scriptures. So this is not at all a condemning message. Sure without forgiveness it is but thank God that in Christ when sin is revealed to us we can apologize and receive forgiveness cause unlike any other religion in the world God actually paid the price for our sin and so that price is perfectly satisfied and thus forgiveness can be perfectly given and confidently received because it relies ultimately on His perfect act as opposed to our already imperfect acts. So bear that in mind if you have committed abortion. There is perfect forgiveness in Christ like no other.
Religious Liberties
Pastors vs IRS a week after. Why is not Big Media covering this?-This story finally makes a blog on PBS and two more First Amendment Case Victories totallin 22 since the beginning of this blog which is less then 4 months!!!
Entertainment
Fireproof
Update on Fireproof movie in theatres. On its first weekend it grossed in at number 4 despite being in only 840 or so theatres. My wife and I saw it and it is excellent. One of our top ten movies. A must see for all. You will be in tears but a good kind of tear. No typical hollywood believe in yourselfism nonsense. A man is a good man only because somebody outside of that man has touched that man (what self pride killer of a movie). But it's much more then that. Just a great movie. Must see. Down to earth non hollywoodized relationships, down to earth conversations with down to earth real people which compliments its down to earth production and cost of the movie. A movie that will relate to the common man and woman going thru a common problem of selfishness, pride, etc etc with the real solution and answer. The movie cost $500,000 to make and has brought in its first week almost 10 million dollars.
A must see http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/. Wow!!!
An American Carol
http://americancarol.com/-also in theatres now...."An American Carol is a 2008 American comedy film, directed by David Zucker and starring Kevin Farley. Presented from a conservative perspective, the film "lampoons contemporary American culture, particularly Hollywood."[2] It uses the framework of A Christmas Carol but moves the setting of the story from Christmas to Independence Day. It is written by Myrna Sokoloff and Zucker. The supporting cast includes Kelsey Grammer, Jon Voight, Dennis Hopper, Trace Adkins, Jillian Murray and Leslie Nielsen. [3] The film was released on October 3, 2008."-Wikipedia
Come What May
On DVD. Eduardo Verastegui and the unborn vs Obama and YouTube when it comes to the Hispanic pro-life values voters-"Advent Film Group (AFG) produced the movie in association with Patrick Henry College, a true-to-life powerhouse in collegiate debate and moot court competition. PHC, founded eight years ago, enrolling only 300 students, has won the Moot Court National Championship twice and has beaten Oxford in England and again in Richmond, VA. The movie's legal argument is solid."
"Come what may"-Trailers and clips. An interestingly simple argument in favor of the unborn is presented in one of the clips of the movie. Something to this effect: When is a baby alive? And one answers when a human is born. Then was the baby alive a day before he/she was born? And the obvious answer to even a child would be of course. So then how many days back from birth is a baby alive and so on, ultimately to conception. So then the argument ends with, is there a day in which we are considered to be alive and that moment only happens at one point in our life and that is at the moment of conception.
Eduardo Verastegui and the unborn vs Obama and YouTube when it comes to the Hispanic pro-life values voters-"Actor in Bella speaks out on the issue of abortion against Obama. This is in spanish directed toward Hispanic values voter who are largely pro-life. If you have yet to see Bella it is a must buy or rent. See http://www.bellamoviesite.com/ "#1 top rated film by New York Times reader poll, Yahoo and Fandango." If you didn't know about this film blame Big Media and Hollywood for not picking up on this film as much as the polls did." Star actor in Bella speaks out against abortion and Obama for supporting abortion. On this blog see edited and unedited spanish only versions of star actor in this movie. See above for more details but if you haven't seen Bella rent it or buy it. It is another good relational movie. Down to earth and relatable to everyday people.
