Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Abortion is Murder: "Contraception" is Murder, 10-5, September, 2012



Formerly, Abortion is Murder, and, before that, skyp (stop ?the killing of young people)

September, 2012, Vol. 10?? No. 5
PO Box 7424, Reading, PA 19603





? ?Contraception?? is Murder, a weak, pathetic response to baby murder, is sent out at least once a month.? If the gestapo hasn?t jailed you for defending the innocent realistically, you either have to tell me you want it or go to the website.? Emails are free but snail-mail is free only for PFCs, $800 for others.
? Because I believe we should examine every legitimate means, including force, in our attempt to protect those being tortured to death, I want to hear from people who?ve been forceful and from those who defend them.? I?d also like to hear from those who oppose the prolife use of force and call it violence

Prisoners ?For ?Christ:

1.??????????????? Evans, Paul Ross 83230-180, USP McCreary,? P.O. Box 3000, Pine Knot, KY 42635
2.??????????????? Gibbons, Linda, Vanier WDC, 655 Martin St., P.O. Box 1040, Milton, ON, Canada L9T 5E6
3.????? ?????????Grady, Francis Gerald # 040368, Outagamie Co Jail 5HLD03L, P.O. Box 1779, Appleton, WI 54912-1779
4.??????????????? Griffin, Michael 310249,? 5914 Jeff Ates Rd., Milton, FL 32583-0000
5.????????????? Holt, Gregory 129616, Varner Super Max, P. O. Box 600, Grady AR 71644-0600
6.????????????? ??Jordi, Stephen 70309-004, FCI P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute IN 47802??? 6/30?
7.????????????? ??Knight, Peter James,? P.O. Box 376, Laverton, Victoria, Australia?
8.????????????? ??Kopp, James 11761-055, USP Canaan, P.O. Box 300, 3057 Easton Tpk., Waymart, PA 18472?
9.?? ?????????????Little, David SJRCC, 930 Old Black River Road, Saint John, NB E2J 4T3
10.??? ???????????Moose, Justin 27494-057? ?FCI Talladega, P.O. Box 1000, Talladega, AL 35160?
11. ??????????????Mower,? Donny Eugene 65828-097, FCI Terminal Island, PO Box 3007, San Pedro, CA 90731
12..???? ?????????Richardson, Alonzo Lee 12898-021, CCM,? 716 McDonough Blvd. SE, Atlanta, GA 30315
13.????? ?????????Roeder, Scott P.? 65192, PO Box 2, Lansing Kansas 66043
14.????? ?????????Rogers, Bobby Joe, ?Santa Rosa County Jail, P.O. Box 7129, Milton FL 32572
15.????? ?????????Rudolph, Eric 18282-058 US Pen. Max, Box 8500, Florence CO 81226-8500
16.????? ?????????Shannon, Rachelle 59755-065, FCI Waseca, Unit A, P.O. Box 1731, Waseca, MN 56093??? 3/31
17.???????????Waagner, Clayton Lee 17258-039, U.S.P., P.O. Box 1000, Lewisburg? PA 17837

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? My buddy from Manhattan recently sent this letter to his cardinal:

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? This is not going to be an anti-Catholic and/or an anti-Catholic Church ranting missive ? as I am a devout, practicing Roman Catholic . . .? Rather, it is going to put forth questions which demand to be answered, questions from a frightened Catholic who is questioning the ability of the leadership of Holy Mother Church to lead us during these times of great evil and travail.? You, Sir, have left me with doubts as to your own fitness for your high post.? You appear to typify our American Roman Catholic hierarchical shepherds who are in intellectual, theological, and moral disarray concerning their handling of the three greatest existing evils: 1) abortion, 2) homosexuality, 3) political corruption.? These have now infected our Church and caused it to lead its flock off the Golden Path, away from a beatifically beautiful eternal life with God, to, perhaps, eternal damnation.
? Why am I greatly upset?? In explanation let me fill you in on my own background.
? As Sophie Petrillo on the TV program ?The Golden Girls? would say, ?Picture this ? sunny Sicily, February 1940? . . . except it?s Nazi Germany and the southern portion of its capital, Berlin.? My great-grandparents on both sides of the family, my mother?s and my father?s, were part of a six-family clique, sharing life, love, and religion, and raising their families as Orthodox Jews ? twelve parents and twenty-seven children.?
? On February 19th, 1940, the German Supreme Court ruled that my ancestral heritage was to be completely exterminated.? Six of the oldest children escaped into Austria, sneaked into Switzerland and then managed to come to America?s shores and entered our once great and God-fearing, God-loving country. Three days later, on Washington?s Birthday in fact, everyone else was rounded up ? cattle, herded to Auschwitz for the final solution.? The escapees married Americans, producing my grandparents who with God created my parents, who in turn blessed me with life.
? Some evil force wanted my entire group of forbearers to be wiped out simply because they were Jews.? The highest German court said that the Horowitzes, the Freemans, the Berliners, the Steinbergs, the Schwartzes, and the Levys were not humans because they were Jewish.? To quote the court: ?. . . one can dispose of these (people?), these Jews, as one sees fit to do, for they are not human.?
? Humanity finds it hard to profit from, or to learn from, its own mistakes ? for on January 22nd, 1973, our Supreme Court, by a vote of 7 to 2, ruled that babies are non-people in that they have no personhood under our Constitution and therefore are neither entitled to any civil rights nor any protections of constitutional covenants.? It is permissible, ergo, to subject them to that heinous murder, abortion. Just twenty-four years and five months after the Nuremberg Trial, we entered into the nadir of a morally decadent abyss.

? I married a Catholic woman and have lovingly converted to my, yours, our Faith, Catholicism.? Catholicism is now a living, loving, integral part of my soul, mind and body.
? The death of my ancestors parallels our own holocaust. Six millions of Jews were exterminated because of what they were . . . seventy to eighty millions of Americans were slaughtered for what they are, the weakest and smallest of us, the unborn human, the most helpless, the baby, the unborn child.? And we yet allow this demonic abomination to continue, unfettered, for this is the mistaken law of america.? What of His law?? This is a shibbolethic infanticide called Roe-v-Wade.? Wake up America!? Any politician who champions the murdering cause of the advocates of Roe-v-Wade must forever be morally and legally debarred from holding public office ? of any kind.

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? You said this in a speech give at Fordham University of Law, as reported by Beth Griffin in Catholic New York:
? ?A reliance on the natural law and human rights will enable us to move the culture and thus our laws in the direction of authentic respect for human life.? It will be a gradual, incremental process . . . and requires compromise and acceptance of intermediate steps.?
? Sir, one must never compromise with evil, or its advocates and practitioners thereto.? Why have you not castigated Fordham University for allowing its students and faculty to purchase insurance policies from its health insurance carriers to pay for abortions and contraception?? Sir, how is your error of omission justifiable?? Why have you not warned university officials to desist in this practice or lose Church academic accreditation?? Why compromise with those who aid and abet murderers?
? The article?s headline, your words again ? ?Natural Law Leads to Respect for Life.?? Nay!? Natural Law by its identity insists ?. . . for if we do not follow Natural Law, it can but scream out to us, ?You have lost your humanness and respect for life itself ??? It doesn?t lead to a respect for Life, it postulates it.? That?s what you should have said.

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? As to the inappropriate ending to your first ?said Mass? after your appointment to your cardinalship, Cardinal Dolan, you re a man of God, not a celebrity or a public official.? It was a mistake indeed to kowtow, to toady to your first center row of shady souled guests.? Never approach evil to shake hands with it as you have.?? Collectively they are all supporters of abortion and gay rights.? You opened yourself to manipulation by them by proffering your hand to them. They should not even have been there and honored by you.? How about we Catholics practicing separation of church and state?? They (if they wanted to come on their own) should have been relegated to a pew at the rear of the church.? You have shown a tolerance of malevolent practices.? Mother Teresa is the exemplar to follow.? When Bill Clinton offered her his hand, she shunned him and walked away.
? As to performing abortions or dispensing contraceptives at any Catholic facility, medical or otherwise, this flies in the face of all our Church?s teachings. If you agree to this in any shape, manner, or form, doff your red hat to your adoring, fawning audience; don?t put it back on, and leave my Church.? The morally proper protocol is to adamantly refuse to help kill pre-born people (babies) or to prevent their creation.? Do not pay any fines; rather, continue God?s work, and let it, the big bad treacherous demonic monster (our morally failed and corrupt government) come for you and put you in jail.? This is your rightful protest.
? As to abortion, you are the titular head of the American Catholic Bishop?s conference.? Insist that each bishop order all of his pastors to assign parishioners to picket, demonstrate, and counsel outside abortion mills -- and tell him to lead the way.
? Babies? lives must be saved, and so too the souls of the parents who opt for abortion, by stopping them from doing so.? If pastors do not cooperate, have them removed.
? Have a pro-life and pro-straight message given at each and every Mass throughout the realm of your cardinalship.

? Finally ? a last word on your guests, and yourself ? they are all, each, your common prototypical, morally bankrupt public officials who embrace immorality in order to stay in office.? They are anathema to our Church.? We are dealing with theological and intellectual morons.? You are our shepherd.? Do not become as they are.
? Your reply to the faithful is needed, and requested.? Let?s examine your backbone, Sir.? Just how are you going to fulfill your office?? I look for your letter answering this one within a three week span after your receipt of it.? Print this letter and your comment on it in? the Catholic New York.? Mail me a copy of your reply.

? Make the Church and all of your babies as I am.
? Yours in Baby Jesus? name .

. . .? Scott Free . .man?????? Scott Freeman

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Hi John,? As always, I enjoy your newsletter; you re a voice for our brethren who are held unjustly as prisoners.
? I soooo appreciate Ralph Lang; an initial reading makes the man sounds incredibly sane to me. It is the judicial system we allowed to move into a state of criminal insanity.
? It is also the police or enforcement agencies that have lost all connection with reality and morality. Imagine the insanity of arresting a man who is only bent on saving innocent human lives; now that is completely deranged behavior!!
? But further thinking on the matter suggests that seed of insanity is resident in Ralph, as, perhaps, in all of us. Too bad Ralph didn't keep his own counsel on the "struggle" in which he claims he was "out of sync with God" over.
Confessing his "struggle" might be construed as a coward?s way of saying, "I'm gonna place myself in a position where I cannot obey."
? Ralph is like a lot of Christians who say they want to cooperate in God's will, but then act in ways that preclude being available when God commands obedience.
? My mind is conflicted. Was the "accident" of injuring a motel room wall, rather than injuring a serial killer, really just the man struggling and finally saying, "I will not obey!"?

? Always good to hear from the prisoners who have truly laid their lives down to save the unborn. But I do have a conflict with Brother James.... Would he choose to attend a Moloch ceremony, or one to Chumash or Baal?
? Muslims worship a god that is a pretender, nothing more. Their god is not the LORD God of all Creation; he's an imposter, and as such, he is as ghastly and deadly as the cruelest of any pagan god. So why was it sooo important to be a part of their Ramadan celebration?
? I am not Roman Catholic, but it sounds like the prison chaplain took the command against false worship more seriously than Jimbo. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding Jim's conflict which led to his Catholic dis-fellowshipping ("excommunication").
? I'm not trying to "shoot the wounded," just wanting some clarity as to why Jim sees himself at odds with a man who has apparently tried to warn him against polytheism.

Warmly in Christ,? Cathy Ramey


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? Americans who have become pessimistic about the direction our nation is taking were undoubtedly buoyed on August 1 of this year by ?Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day.?? For those of you who spent that day in solitary confinement, or out of the country, an explanation is in order.
? Chick-fil-A?s President, Dan Cathy, told an online religious newspaper that he ?supports the biblical definition of the family unit?, and that ?supporters of gay marriage were arrogant.?? Gay marriage supporters immediately called for a nationwide boycott of Chick-fil-A, and liberal big city mayors such as Rahm Emanuel of Chicago announced that the fast food chain was not welcome in their jurisdictions.? Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (a national treasure, in my book!) joined forces to urge all Americans to celebrate ?Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day? on August 1.
? When my Son, Adam, called me at noon on August 1 from Chick-fil-A to tell me that it was mobbed, I knew something big had happened.? ?Dad,? he said, ?You wouldn?t believe it!? The line of people waiting to get in wraps all around the building, and the drive-up line wraps around three times!? There?s a policeman directing traffic!?? Had Mr. and Mrs. America finally decided to fight back?? At 2 PM I hopped in my old clunker to see for myself.? It was just as reported.? I got in line.? The woman in line ahead of me told me she and her kids had driven 45 minutes to get there, just to make a statement.? She was tired of being called a ?hater? just because she believed that a marriage was a union of one man and one woman.?
?? Behind me an elderly woman was grumpy because she just came to get a chicken sandwich and had no idea what she?d run into.? She told us we were all Obama haters because we?re racists.
? Inside the building, pandemonium reigned.? I kiddingly asked the woman behind the counter, ?How?s business??? She looked at me as if I were crazy!? Apparently, one of the employees had brought in her children to work behind the counter to keep up with the demand.? I bought chicken sandwiches for the whole family, and said, ?Keep the faith!? to the guy who held the door for me on the way out.? He grinned and said, ?Amen, brother!?? A news van from Channel 69 TV News was parked in the lot.

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? What are we to make of all this?? I couldn?t help wondering whether this experience carried any significance for the upcoming presidential election.? Could it be that the ?silent majority??the wage earners and retirees of America--are tired of being silent, and of being told that their opinions are beyond the pale?? We?re taught that America is a land governed by laws, and not by men.? But, if that is true, then how can a tyrant like Rahm Emanuel unilaterally choose which businesses are welcome in their cities?? Isn?t that supposed to be governed by zoning ordinances and planning commissions?
? Personally, I believe it?s way past time for Americans to get good and angry.? Our freedoms are being eliminated before our eyes, and our Constitution trampled underfoot.? If we?re not angry now, I?m sure that we?ll never be!?? Respectfully Submitted,

????????? Ed Bender,??? Berks County Patriots

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? Then they came for pastors, but I realized these were not "real" preachers with "real" churches, so I went out and mowed my lawn (City of Phoenix v Salmon; see below).

? Then they came for me because I was caught publicly singing Christmas Carols, and so here I am in jail, wondering if anyone will come to rescue me..... (Fat chance....)????? Cathy Ramey

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? Dear John, What is the story behind Roe v. Wade's "companion" case known as Doe v. Bolton? The few who read it are puzzled by it.
? To clear up the mystery, the difference is that Roe sets forth the scheme of the Court's new pregnancy abatement program, whereas Doe musters a brigade of physicians to perform the task of abatement.
? To accomplish the massive task of pregnancy abatement during our time of sexual revolution, the Court required a brigade of physicians to do abortions full-time. But the Court realized that skilled physicians would seldom abandon real careers to do abortions, and that forcing them to do abortions would create too much opposition. So the Court turned to incompetent physicians instead.
? Under normal circumstances, incompetent physicians will eventually lose their licenses because they no longer measure up to the scrutiny of medical regulations. On the other hand, if perchance you suspend medical regulations, then they can stay in practice. This is why the Court handed down Doe v. Bolton as Roe's companion case. In Doe, the Court quietly suspended medical regulations so incompetent physicians would have a safe haven to stay in practice in return for doing abortions.
? Few are also aware that Roe was ultimately founded on the government's authority to control the public involuntarily, based on cases such as Jacobson v. Massachusetts (forced vaccination) and Buck v. Bell (forced sterilization). In other words, rather than giving women an outright "choice" per se, the Court cautiously reserved forced abortion as a backup plan, in case voluntary abortion proved insufficient to satisfy the Court's objectives of pregnancy abatement. In other words, a sharp pair of pruning shears has always been hiding behind the big white sign that says "Choice" all along.
? I know this makes my contribution a bit long, but I hope you will also be able to include the following excerpt from Scotty's application for a stay of lethal execution, which explains these matters in more detail. Scotty is asking the Court to stop killing preborn children. Here it is:

HARM WILL RESULT FROM THE DENIAL OF THE STAY.
? "If there is doubt whether due process has been followed in the procedures, the stay is granted, because death is irrevocable." Holtzman v. Schlesinger, 414 U.S. 1319. For the reasons stated above, there is reason to doubt that sound constitutional procedures were followed in authorizing the ongoing execution of preborn children. To underscore the harm that will result from the denial of the stay, more children are executed on an average day under this Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade than the total number of adults who have been executed since 1976 when the Court resumed adult executions.
The privacy right upheld in Roe v. Wade has never been substantial enough to obviate the possibility of involuntary abortion, including in arbitrary connection with poverty and crime. 410 U.S. 153-154, 159, founding the decision ultimately on the abatement authority of Jacobson and Buck with abandonment Skinner. See also Casey, 505 U.S. 857, preserving reliance on Jacobson, and 505 U.S. 915-916, citing Stanley and Whalen in support of overriding privacy if necessary to stop the spread of obscene pregnancies when drugs are involved.
? As Justice Marshall explains in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1, 100-101 (1973), joined notably by Skinner author Justice Douglas:
"Recently, in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 152-154 (1973), the importance of procreation has, indeed, been explained on the basis of its intimate relationship with the constitutional right of privacy which we have recognized. Yet the limited stature thereby accorded any "right" to procreate is evident from the fact that at the same time the Court reaffirmed its initial decision in Buck v. Bell. See Roe v. Wade, supra, at 154."
? By "initial decision" is meant that the Court decided in Roe that Skinner v. Oklahoma, 316 U.S. 535 (1942), should no longer serve to protect women from involuntary procedures to control reproduction in arbitrary connection with poverty and crime, at least when it comes to abortion. In fact, the Court was so obsessed with ensuring pregnancy abatement that in Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973), to muster a brigade of physicians for the task, it established a safe haven by suspending medical regulations so incompetent physicians could stay in practice by doing abortions. As Justice Douglas explains in Doe, 410 U.S. 179, 220-221: "In short, I agree with the Court that endangering the life of the woman or seriously and permanently injuring her health are standards too narrow for the right of privacy that is at stake."
? By this sort of "privacy" the Court means not an individual's right to privacy per se, but rather the privacy of our nation, collectively as a whole, to mask for its underlying social and economic ills, by disposing of the evidence using child homicide in its most clandestine form of abortion. To achieve this privacy the Court has accepted "endangering the life of the woman or seriously and permanently injuring her health" by suspending medical regulations to create a safe haven so incompetent physicians can remain in practice by doing abortions. [Sound familiar, John?]
? There is also the problem that abortions are used to obstruct justice in cases of sexual abuse of minors. Even physicians doing abortions have sexually abused the minors seeking abortions. Yet this Court remains hesitant to step in, for fear that added involvement might hinder the abatement effort with regard to minor's pregnancies. See Planned Parenthood v. Danforth, 428 U.S. 52 (1976); Bellotti v. Baird, 443 U.S. 622 (1979). This goes to show that Justice Douglas left out "abusing her" when outlining the many shameful risks the Court has been willing to accept in providing a safe haven for physicians doing abortions.
? Hence, in addition to interrupting the harm of child homicide, a stay will also interrupt: forced abortion; the practice of allowing physicians of dubious qualification to hide behind a suspension of medical regulations; the masking of social and economic ills; and, the obstruction of justice. It is time for our nation to face its ills and to protect its children.
? Indeed, nothing can be more substantial than the right to life. As conceded in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 156-157, "If this suggestion of personhood is established ... the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [Fourteenth] Amendment." For this reason, the harm of not granting the stay plainly outweighs any reservations to the contrary.

P.S. To clear up Justice Steven's position in Casey, the "crack" baby epidemic of the hip hop/dirty dancing craze prompted the Court to hear the case in the first place, because states, under both conservative and liberal leadership, were creating quite the clamor pressuring women with crack babies to abort. And whereas the pregnancies of the flapper, hippie, and disco crazes were considered awkward if not scandalous, by community standards those of the hip hop/dirty dancing craze were considered obscene. So Stevens invoked Stanley v. Georgia, which said that even though the right to privacy permits the possession of obscenity, the state has the right to intervene when the obscenity is being spread about the community. Otherwise, the state will be faced with an epidemic of obscenity.?

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? Then, to answer how this fits in with the privacy between a woman and her physician, Stevens invoked Whalen v. Roe, to explain that the Court has found an exception in the past when drugs are involved. In Whalen, the issue was that of the state tracking people when their doctor prescribes narcotic drugs. So Stevens suggested that an exception to privacy would also apply to drug-related pregnancies.????????????????? ?Sincerely, Cal
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??? Meet Angel Dillard:
? An anti-abortion activist accused of threatening a Wichita doctor who was training to offer abortions will have to face a jury after failing to show the issue is so incendiary that jurors cannot impartially decide her case, a federal judge ruled.
? U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten granted the government's belated request for a jury trial against Angel Dillard. The Valley Center woman had wanted a judge, rather than a jury, to decide her case, arguing it will be difficult for jurors to set aside strong feelings about her association with Dr. George Tiller's murderer.
? The judge said that the parties have ample time to prepare for the Feb. 5 trial.
? "No strong or compelling reason exists to justify removing from the hands of the jury the resolution of the facts of this case," Marten wrote in his decision.
? The Justice Department has sued Dillard under a federal law aimed at protecting access to reproductive services. Jurors will have to decide whether the letter Dillard sent to Dr. Mila Means last year constitutes a "true threat" intended to intimidate the doctor from providing abortion services.

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? In her letter, Dillard wrote that thousands of people from across the United States are already looking into the doctor's background.

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? "They will know your habits and routines. They know where you shop, who your friends are, what you drive, where you live," the letter said. "You will be checking under your car every day ? because maybe today is the day someone places an explosive under it."

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? Abortions have not been openly performed in Wichita since Tiller, one of the nation's few late-term abortion providers, was fatally shot in May 2009 by anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder as the physician served as an usher at his Wichita church.
? "There is probably ... no issue more emotionally charged and divisive than the abortion issue," the defense argued its filing. "This type of case is especially ill-suited for a jury, particularly in the environment which plaintiff alleges is a large part of this case ? the stress, turmoil, chaos and public conflict that exists in Wichita over this issue."
? Means has testified her fears were heightened after reading a news story by The Associated Press that quoted Dillard in a July 2009 interview, saying she had developed a friendship with Roeder while he was awaiting trial.
? "With one move, (Roeder) was able ... to accomplish what we had not been able to do," Dillard told AP at the time. "So he followed his convictions and I admire that."
? In his ruling Tuesday, Marten refused Dillard's request to dismiss her case because Means is not presently providing abortion services. The judge also rejected a move by Dillard to countersue the government for allegedly violating her First Amendment rights.
? The lawsuit ? filed by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act ? seeks a court order that keeps Dillard from contacting Means or coming within 250 feet of Means, her home, car or business. It also seeks damages of $5,000 to Means and a civil penalty of $15,000.
? Dillard had contended that the government had interfered with her access to a religious institution because the proposed barrier zone might prevent her from attending a church near the clinic.

Marten said that any claim under the First Amendment would be premature since the court can tailor any resulting remedy to preserve Dillard's rights.


? Rev. Michael Bray comments:

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? I had the pleasure of meeting Angel Dillard at the Roeder trial and a few months later when I visited Roeder in jail. She is a woman of excellent character endowed with musical and vocal skills. She simply wrote a note to an abortionist who was replacing Tiller pointing out what that death might well be awaiting him. It was clearly not a threat as she made no effort to hide her identity and she was unaware of the obscene and unconstitutional FACE law (1994) which not only violates our basic freedom of speech but punishes those who stumble into the trap of speaking too earnestly against the child slaughter by abortion.

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? A killers? helper posts this on the abortion.ws blog:

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? I read the article and commented:?
??? ?In other words, that little pill could, in the world of Personhood, be deemed a lethal weapon, an instrument of homicide.?

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? Leave it to the killers? helpers in a cheap (in every way) bonkadonk mag to zero in on the real horror ? ?birth control.? Real birth control requires self control. The stuff these folks peddle promotes indulgence and murder.
? Prolifers must realize that the holocaust we are enduring began with the legal killing of the youngest people, the less than week-olds. We really didn?t get involved till they began legally killing the two and three month olds.

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? Here?s the present situation: we will either start killing the one and two year olds, or we will start protecting the one and two day olds.

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Source: http://skyp1.blogspot.com/2012/10/contraception-is-murder-10-5-september.html

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Court trims verdict over 'Nash Bridges' profits

LOS ANGELES (AP) ? A divided appellate court on Monday upheld Don Johnson's multimillion jury award over profits from the series "Nash Bridges" but significantly reduced the amount the actor is eligible to receive.

The California 2nd District Court of Appeal panel voted 2-1 to uphold a verdict that determined the actor was owed millions from the hit series, but the panel cut the amount from $23.2 million down to $15 million.

The appeals court also limited the amount of interest the actor is eligible to receive, erasing an additional award of more than $28 million that a judge granted the actor. Johnson will receive interest on the award, but only an amount calculated from the date of the original verdict in July 2010.

The justices determined that jurors erred when they took into account that Johnson might have earned interest payments while fighting the case, which ended in 2010 with the multimillion verdict. The panel decided to add 5 percent interest to the original $15 million amount they agreed Johnson should receive, according to the opinion released Monday.

Johnson's award was appealed by the series' producers and financiers, Rysher Entertainment, 2929 Entertainment and Qualia Capital.

One justice agreed with the companies that Johnson's verdict should be overturned because his claims were barred by the statute of limitations, but two justices sided with the actor.

"Nash Bridges" aired for six seasons on CBS.

"'Nash Bridges' has been my baby since its inception and I've fought for years for my interest under our contractual agreement," Johnson wrote in a statement, adding that he was gratified that the appeals court ruled in his favor. He sued over his stake in the show in February 2009.

Defense attorneys handling the case were not immediately available for comment. The companies could appeal Monday's ruling to the California Supreme Court.

They argued at trial that the series was costly to produce and that was why Johnson hadn't been paid more.

Johnson was awarded half of the show's copyrights at trial, which made him eligible to receive continued profits from the show as long as it remains in syndication. His attorney Mark Holscher also praised the ruling, and a news release from his firm stated that the series is expected to earn more than $50 million in the coming years.

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Anthony McCartney can be reached at http://twitter.com/mccartneyAP .

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/court-trims-verdict-over-nash-bridges-profits-191453534.html

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The impact / distract gap. How to make the business impact you need.

by thesaleswhisperer on Sun

Pre?vi?ously I wrote about big hairy auda?cious goals their neg?a?tive busi?ness impact.

Today I want to con?tinue along the same path but give you a way to cre?ate a pos?i?tive busi?ness impact.

Build?ing and sus?tain?ing a busi?ness is work. Maybe you?re smarter than the aver?age bear or you get a good bounce and it?s not ter?ri?bly hard work, but it?s still work. Wish?ing it was eas?ier or hop?ing for a break is not a sus?tain?able nor advis?able busi?ness?model.

Far too good busi?nesses started and run by good peo?ple fail because their hope dis?tracted them from mak?ing a dent, from work?ing on that which they could impact.

It?s like the anxious-ridden sales?peo?ple I see who ignore even look?ing at their phone while they surf around LinkedIn think?ing they?ll find that one con?nec?tion today that will put them over quota by next week. (Let me know how that works out for?you.)

If there is a task you can start now that will make an impact to your busi?ness either imme?di?ately or it?s needed for the long term growth and sus?tain?abil?ity of your busi?ness, do it. If it?s only ?pos?si?ble? that you can make an impact then chances are what?ever you are doing will sim?ply dis?tract you from your future.

Impact or dis?tract is a fact,?Jack.

Now go do what needs to be?done.

Good Selling,
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Penn researchers connect baboon personalities to social success and health benefits

Penn researchers connect baboon personalities to social success and health benefits [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 1-Oct-2012
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Contact: Evan Lerner
elerner@upenn.edu
215-573-6604
University of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA Whether human or baboon, it helps to have friends. For both species, studies have shown that robust social networks lead to better health and longer lives. Now, a team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has helped show that baboon personality plays a role in these outcomes, and, like people, some baboons' personalities are better suited to making and keeping friends than others.

The research was conducted by psychology professor Robert Seyfarth and biology professor Dorothy Cheney, both of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences. They collaborated with the Arizona State University's Joan Silk.

Their work was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Seyfarth and Cheney, along with their colleagues and students, have spent the last 17 years observing a group of baboons living in the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, studying the biological roots of their social dynamics. As with many other primates, baboon societies are strongly hierarchical. Females "inherit" their dominance ranks from their mothers and enjoy priority of access to food and mates. But high-ranking females do not always have greater reproductive success than low-ranking females. This suggests that, when it comes to evolutionary success, the inherited advantage of high rank can't explain everything.

"If you look at a baboon society," Seyfarth said, "and see the ranked, matrilineal families, you would think that whatever traits put an individual at the top of the hierarchy, that's what natural selection is going to favor. But that turns out not to be the case.

"In fact, dominance rank is not as good a predictor of reproductive outcomes as a close network of social relationships and stable relationships over time. So our question became 'What predicts having a strong network?'"

Baboon females actively work to maintain close social bonds, but, like humans, some baboons seemed to be better at it than others. With such traits closely tied to fitness and reproductive success, the Penn researchers wanted to get at the root of this variation.

During seven years of observations in the animals' natural habitat, the researchers measured individual female baboons on their sociability. They measured the number of grooming partners a baboon had, as well her tendency to be friendly or aggressive toward others. They also measured reproductive and fitness benefits they accrued: how long individuals and their offspring lived, as well as their stress levels, as determined by the presence of certain hormones in their droppings.

The researchers found that strength of an individual's social bonds was not fully predicted by seemingly obvious factors, such as the female's rank or the size of the family she was born into.

"Even when a female has a lot of relatives," Cheney said, "sometimes she's a loner, but some females who have no relatives do just fine. It suggests that you have to be both lucky and skilled to have these networks."

And, again like humans, these skills came down to individual personality traits. To determine a female's personality, the researchers paid close attention to grunting behavior. For baboons, grunting greases the social wheels. If a lower-ranking female grunts when approaching a higher-ranking female, the grunt acts as a kind of appeasement, reducing the chance of receiving aggression. Conversely, if a higher-ranking female grunts to a lower-ranking female, the grunt puts her at ease, increasing the chance of a friendly social interaction. And females of all ranks grunt when approaching a mother with an infant, because grunts increase the likelihood that the mother will allow the grunter to interact with her child.

Working bottom up from the trends they found in the baboon's behavior, the researchers grouped the baboons into three distinct personality profiles: "nice," "aloof" and "loner."

Nice females were friendly to all others and often grunted to lower-ranking females to signal reassurance. They formed strong and enduring social bonds with fairly consistent partner preferences over time.

Aloof females were more aggressive and less friendly, and they grunted primarily to higher-ranking females who had infants. They formed weaker bonds but had very consistent partner preferences.

Loner females were often alone and relatively unfriendly; they grunted primarily to appease higher-ranking females without infants. They formed weak bonds with changing partners.

Of the three, the loners had the highest stress levels, the weakest social bonds and the least stable social partners over time. Both of these measures were correlated with lower offspring survival and shorter lifespans. Both nice and aloof females showed the health and reproductive benefits associated with strong social bonds.

"This belies the idea that everything is competition and conflict," Cheney said.

While the mechanisms that make both "nice" and "aloof" effective strategies remains unclear, the study shows that cooperative personalities are adaptive.

"These results have allowed us to, for the first time in a wild primate, link personality characteristics, social skill and reproductive success," Seyfarth said. "By being a nice baboon, you increase the likelihood of having strong social bonds, which in turn translates to a better chance of passing on your genes."

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The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Leakey Foundation and National Geographic Society.


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Penn researchers connect baboon personalities to social success and health benefits [ Back to EurekAlert! ] Public release date: 1-Oct-2012
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Contact: Evan Lerner
elerner@upenn.edu
215-573-6604
University of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA Whether human or baboon, it helps to have friends. For both species, studies have shown that robust social networks lead to better health and longer lives. Now, a team of University of Pennsylvania researchers has helped show that baboon personality plays a role in these outcomes, and, like people, some baboons' personalities are better suited to making and keeping friends than others.

The research was conducted by psychology professor Robert Seyfarth and biology professor Dorothy Cheney, both of Penn's School of Arts and Sciences. They collaborated with the Arizona State University's Joan Silk.

Their work was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Seyfarth and Cheney, along with their colleagues and students, have spent the last 17 years observing a group of baboons living in the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana, studying the biological roots of their social dynamics. As with many other primates, baboon societies are strongly hierarchical. Females "inherit" their dominance ranks from their mothers and enjoy priority of access to food and mates. But high-ranking females do not always have greater reproductive success than low-ranking females. This suggests that, when it comes to evolutionary success, the inherited advantage of high rank can't explain everything.

"If you look at a baboon society," Seyfarth said, "and see the ranked, matrilineal families, you would think that whatever traits put an individual at the top of the hierarchy, that's what natural selection is going to favor. But that turns out not to be the case.

"In fact, dominance rank is not as good a predictor of reproductive outcomes as a close network of social relationships and stable relationships over time. So our question became 'What predicts having a strong network?'"

Baboon females actively work to maintain close social bonds, but, like humans, some baboons seemed to be better at it than others. With such traits closely tied to fitness and reproductive success, the Penn researchers wanted to get at the root of this variation.

During seven years of observations in the animals' natural habitat, the researchers measured individual female baboons on their sociability. They measured the number of grooming partners a baboon had, as well her tendency to be friendly or aggressive toward others. They also measured reproductive and fitness benefits they accrued: how long individuals and their offspring lived, as well as their stress levels, as determined by the presence of certain hormones in their droppings.

The researchers found that strength of an individual's social bonds was not fully predicted by seemingly obvious factors, such as the female's rank or the size of the family she was born into.

"Even when a female has a lot of relatives," Cheney said, "sometimes she's a loner, but some females who have no relatives do just fine. It suggests that you have to be both lucky and skilled to have these networks."

And, again like humans, these skills came down to individual personality traits. To determine a female's personality, the researchers paid close attention to grunting behavior. For baboons, grunting greases the social wheels. If a lower-ranking female grunts when approaching a higher-ranking female, the grunt acts as a kind of appeasement, reducing the chance of receiving aggression. Conversely, if a higher-ranking female grunts to a lower-ranking female, the grunt puts her at ease, increasing the chance of a friendly social interaction. And females of all ranks grunt when approaching a mother with an infant, because grunts increase the likelihood that the mother will allow the grunter to interact with her child.

Working bottom up from the trends they found in the baboon's behavior, the researchers grouped the baboons into three distinct personality profiles: "nice," "aloof" and "loner."

Nice females were friendly to all others and often grunted to lower-ranking females to signal reassurance. They formed strong and enduring social bonds with fairly consistent partner preferences over time.

Aloof females were more aggressive and less friendly, and they grunted primarily to higher-ranking females who had infants. They formed weaker bonds but had very consistent partner preferences.

Loner females were often alone and relatively unfriendly; they grunted primarily to appease higher-ranking females without infants. They formed weak bonds with changing partners.

Of the three, the loners had the highest stress levels, the weakest social bonds and the least stable social partners over time. Both of these measures were correlated with lower offspring survival and shorter lifespans. Both nice and aloof females showed the health and reproductive benefits associated with strong social bonds.

"This belies the idea that everything is competition and conflict," Cheney said.

While the mechanisms that make both "nice" and "aloof" effective strategies remains unclear, the study shows that cooperative personalities are adaptive.

"These results have allowed us to, for the first time in a wild primate, link personality characteristics, social skill and reproductive success," Seyfarth said. "By being a nice baboon, you increase the likelihood of having strong social bonds, which in turn translates to a better chance of passing on your genes."

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The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Leakey Foundation and National Geographic Society.


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Monday, October 1, 2012

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's most senior military commander has promised better training and more modern weaponry for the army in an apparent effort to satisfy officers' demands for change, which have multiplied after an uprising last year. Commander-in-Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is also the defence minister, was appointed by the country's first Islamist president Mohamed Mursi only last month and is under pressure to shake up a military which until recently had held the balance of power in Egypt for decades. ...

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Schwarzenegger kept many secrets from wife Maria

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2011 file photo, Maria Shriver, right, and her husband, actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, stand amid family members and other mourners as they leave the funeral Mass for her father, R. Sargent Shriver, at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic church in Potomac, Md., just outside Washington. Schwarzenegger says his lifelong penchant for secrecy and ability to put his emotions "on deep freeze" led him to keep many secrets from his wife Maria Shriver, eventually causing the dissolution of their marriage when he was forced to admit he fathered a child with the family's housekeeper years earlier. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2011 file photo, Maria Shriver, right, and her husband, actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, stand amid family members and other mourners as they leave the funeral Mass for her father, R. Sargent Shriver, at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic church in Potomac, Md., just outside Washington. Schwarzenegger says his lifelong penchant for secrecy and ability to put his emotions "on deep freeze" led him to keep many secrets from his wife Maria Shriver, eventually causing the dissolution of their marriage when he was forced to admit he fathered a child with the family's housekeeper years earlier. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

(AP) ? Arnold Schwarzenegger says his lifelong penchant for secrecy and ability to put his emotions "on deep freeze" led him to keep many secrets from his wife Maria Shriver, eventually causing the dissolution of their marriage when he was forced to admit he fathered a child with the family's housekeeper years earlier.

Throughout their strained 25-year marriage, Schwarzenegger says he did not want to tell Shriver about crucial life decisions such as major heart surgery and running for California governor because he feared she would overreact and tell her well-connected family and friends.

In his new autobiography, "Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story," and in an interview airing Sunday on "60 Minutes," the former California governor acknowledges that his inability to be honest with people has hurt those closest to him.

"That's the way I handle things. And it always has worked. But, I mean it does not ? it's not the best thing for people around me because I sometimes ? some information I just keep to myself," Schwarzenegger tells reporter Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes."

The former Mr. Universe traces his detachment to his bodybuilding days, where he says emotions make athletes lose.

"So I became an expert in living in denial," says the Hollywood action star and former governor.

Schwarzenegger praises Shriver throughout the book as a partner and friend who was essential to his success, but also admits to keeping her in the dark about many career decisions. Shriver filed for divorce in July.

Although he had been toying with the idea of running for governor for more than a year, Schwarzenegger waited until just days before the filing deadline for the 2003 recall to discuss it with Shriver, writing in the book that he "didn't want endless conversation about it at home."

Shriver opposed the idea, but was persuaded to soften her stance by her mother, Eunice Shriver, who told her to support her husband's ambitions, or he might resent her for the rest of his life. Despite that struggle, he also didn't inform her when he decided to seek a second term, writing that she had to read about it in the newspaper.

"Total Recall" will officially be published Monday. The Associated Press purchased an early copy.

But Schwarzenegger's biggest secret, the child he had with the family's housekeeper, became tabloid news last year after he left office. Shriver confronted him during a January 2011 counseling session and he finally acknowledged the boy, Joseph, was his. Schwarzenegger says he kept the secret from his wife for years because he was worried "it would get out."

He tells Stahl he never even had a conversation with the housekeeper, Mildred Baena, about the son. Instead, after he began noticing the boy's strong resemblance to him, around age 8, he just began giving Baena extra money.

"I kind of put it away and just said to myself, 'OK, I'm going to put this away. I'm going to fulfill my responsibilities,'" he tells Stahl.

He declined to say whether he has a relationship with the child, who is now about 15, and he said he didn't want to go into any more details about his relationship with Baena because he's already caused Shriver and their four children enough pain.

"I don't want to reawaken and kind of talk about it because it's not going to help them. And I just want to protect them as much as I can," he says.

There were other deceptions, too, including a "hot affair" with actress Brigitte Nielsen while filming the 1985 film "Red Sonja," when he and Shriver were living together. He admits to other affairs, but tells Stahl they are "something that's obviously between Maria and me."

Schwarzenegger says in the interview that his marriage and his family were the most important things in his life, but he caused them tremendous pain.

"So the thing that really meant the most to me kind of fell apart because of my doing," he says in the "60 Minutes" interview. "That is something that I will always look back and say, 'How could you have done that?'"

Associated Press

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Muslim protesters torch Buddhist temples, homes in Bangladesh

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - Hundreds of Muslims in Bangladesh burned at least four Buddhist temples and 15 homes of Buddhists on Sunday after complaining that a Buddhist man had insulted Islam, police and residents said.

Members of the Buddhist minority in the Cox's Bazar area in the southeast of the country said unidentified people were bent on upsetting peaceful relations between Muslims and Buddhists.

Muslims took to the streets in the area late on Saturday to protest against what they said was a photograph posted on Facebook that insulted Islam.

The protesters said the picture had been posted by a Buddhist and they marched to Buddhist villages and set fire to temples and houses.

Police said they had deployed extra security forces and banned gatherings in Buddhist-dominated areas.

"We brought the situation under control before dawn and imposed restrictions on public gatherings," said Salim Mohammad Jahangir, Cox's Bazar district police superintendent.

Many people in predominantly Muslim Bangladesh have been angered in recent days by a film made in California that mocks the Prophet Mohammad.

Muslims in Bangladesh and beyond have also been outraged by violence over the border in Myanmar where members of the majority Buddhist community clashed with minority Muslims this year.

Police had escorted the man accused of posting the insulting photograph and his mother to safety, Jahangir said.

Sohel Sarwar Kajal, the Muslim head of the council in the area where the arson took place, said he was trying to restore communal peace.

"We are doing everything possible to quell tension and restore peace between the communities," he told reporters.

(This story corrects "Bazaar" to "Bazar" in sixth paragraph)

(Reporting by Nurul Islam; Writing by Anis Ahmed; Editing by Robert Birsel)

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