Consistency is often a necessary ingredient when solving complex issues.
If President Obama believes that wealthy people should pay more in taxes, then he should ensure that wealthy members of his own party (including the two wealthiest Americans, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett) also pay more.
If, on the other hand, Obama believes that wealthy people (like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett) should pay a more moderate tax rate, then that tax rate should also be available to wealthy Republicans, America's other party.
This policy represents consistency, which in turn represents the fairness that Obama has said, repeatedly, that he wants in many of his policies. Fairness was implicit in the speech he made last night (December 6, 2015) when he said that people who are too dangerous to become airplane passengers should also be legally considered too dangerous to buy a gun.
Any consistently fair policy regarding the identification of terrorists would either include Muslims or else, it would exclude uniformed police officers, as shown in the photo above.
Thank you to Dr. Marty Fox, whose Twitter account provided the above photo on December 7, 2015. His account is @DrMartyFox
The words "To be or not to be" are part of a Shakespeare play called Hamlet.
This video is part of a movie that is based on the play.
Lawrence Olivier plays the Danish king in this movie.
He was chosen to be a member of Great Britain's House of Lords, but he preferred to be known for his knighthood, as Sir Lawrence Olivier.
Fairness also means that when a British man has accomplished as much as he has, there should be an entry for him in the Encyclopedia Britannica and on the Biography Channel.
Fairness also means that when a large percentage of the Muslims in any country violently demands the world-wide acceptance of Sharia Law and other aspects of Muslim culture, then that nation's elected government should consider them to be trouble-makers, not members of a peaceful religion.
If the set of photos that are re-printed at the top of this page is an accurate portrayal of President Obama's inconsistent policies, then he is being unfair, either by criticizing the police unfairly or by not criticizing violent Muslims when they should be criticized.
To blame or not to blame. That is the question he must answer if he is to be truly called a fair president. The only alternative is to be called a biased president and unfair by the very definition of the word.
The news story says that 15,000 people have already arrived in that Greek island (Lesbos), hoping to leave there and enter Europe, where they will, I'm sure, cause more trouble with every law enforcement agency there.
Thousands of these invaders, masquerading as "Syrian refugees", have already arrived in America, thanks to the determined efforts of our Muslim President Barak Obama, who is hiding their religious status and even their travel plans from the Governors of our states.
... and some people wonder why so many Americans want to see him replaced.
Link to my July 2012 essay Sample Articles of Impeachment, found on my main blog. It mentions and documents unconstitutional nominations to questionable agencies, larceny, economic sabotage, and treason, but the page wasn't large enough to include the negligent homicide that was committed by him and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at Benghazi, Libya.
Link to my June 2013 essay An inconvenient truth, which explains, in detail, a Constitutional (and thus legal) procedure to remove any U.S. President from the White House.
Link to my May 2014 essay Mister President, it is time to leave. It shows why being the U.S. President is a difficult job, and it shows why someone with a mental illness (like Obama's narcissism) is unfit for presidential duty. The essay mentions Gaby Giffords, who wisely resigned her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives after she was shot in the head.
Link to my September 2014 essay Presidents must be accountable to their people. It states a truth that is hard for some people to accept. Mental illness can happen to anybody, even the U.S. President.
Link to my November 2014 essay A letter from a veteran to his Commander-in-Chief. The letter was copied, verbatim and complete, from the Facebook page of a man who lost three limbs during his military service in Iraq. He wrote a very eloquent letter condemning President Obama for his failure as a leader of combat troops. My essay also includes a reminder that any U.S. president can be legally removed from the White House if he is declared unfit for duty using the Constitutional procedure that was mentioned in previous essays named on this page.
This photo, with the caption, appeared on my Twitter account.
It's so truthful, I had to share it.
This woman is Elizabeth Warren, one of the two useless U.S. Senators from my own state.
She became a Harvard University professor by claiming to be an American Indian. Does she look like any indian that you know?
No, she doesn't attend any of the ceremonial gatherings of any American Indian tribe, and no, none of her immediate ancestors were members of any American Indian tribe. She only made that claim in order to get an advantage in Harvard's academic hiring committee.
Dan is a former member of the U.S. Secret Service who was assigned one of the most important jobs within that agency - guarding the life of the President of the United States. His Twitter account is verified. It is followed by 1.5 million other people, including Sean Hannity, who only follows four people in the whole world.
Cancelling student loan debt? Are these people serious? I worked my ass off to pay off my debt.
GET TO WORK and pay off your own. The GOP shouldn’t pull any punches over this outrageously stupid proposal. Stop freeloading, it’s pathetic. GO TO WORK AND PAY OFF YOUR OWN DEBT!
Can Jews and Christians leave their religion and become members of another religion because their beliefs have changed?
Can Muslims leave their religion and become Jews or Christians because their beliefs have changed?
... without any fear that they'll be killed?
The following tweet was posted on November 29, 2019. It includes a 1-minute video.
Iran: 13-yr-old cries outside prison where her dad is sentenced to death for converting to Christianity.
"God help me! I haven’t seen my dad in 4 years. Oh god, Let me see him. can't live without him. Don’t kill my dad! Kill me instead...” @LizaRosen101pic.twitter.com/1RlupFZ9TS
This editorial cartoon was originally published in an online newspaper run by the Indianapolis Star.
After this cartoon was seen by the public, a few people complained, as some people always do when a politically-incorrect viewpoint is aired.
The newspaper changed the cartoon by removing the moustache from the man who was climbing in the window, and the newspaper moved the cartoon to a different part of the website.
This is increasing evidence that the only viewpoint that will be seen by a large percentage of America is the politically correct viewpoint.
I haven't been politically correct since I began blogging. Link to an essay I wrote in July 2012 called The End of Racism. This essay proves that race is a meaningless concept. That's the reason why racism will end.
Fortunately for me, I don't have to kneel down when I meet the editor of a newspaper.
If you think this cartoon is racist, please tell me which race is being discriminated against, and please tell me what makes you think that any of the characters in this political cartoon are members of this race.
Link to a web page that really is racist because of a difference in clothing styles and skin colors. The web page is also sexist because one character is male and the other one is female. By the way, where is the second world in their diagram? It's apparently as invisible as the middle class in America, and just as useless to the radical leftists.
A group of people who work for other people and who receive a moderate amount of income for the work that they do are a bridge from poverty to wealth, but hard-core radical leftists hate wealthy people, so they don't want anyone to know that it is possible to go from poverty to wealth through hard work.
To him, this is not a costume, this is the kind of clothing he would wear every day if he could wear it and still have an approval rating that is even slightly above 40%.
His approval rating, according to the average of all of the polls that are followed by Real Clear Politics.
All he needs now is a rifle and the directions to the Canadian Parliament.
This photo, with the writing already on it, was sent to me via e-mail by a friend.
The man in the photo is Barak Hussein Obama, and he will be leaving the White House in January 2017, whether or not he wants to do so.
In America, a "girlie man", sometimes spelled "girly man", is a man who has a very small amount of masculinity.
Does this man look like he is capable of making cool-headed decisions as the Commander-in-Chief if-and-when the United States has to fight a real war against Russia, China, or one of their allies?
Real men don't ride bicycles that have training wheels.
These are the first three paragraphs of a story published 24 hours ago on the website of the Atlantic Monthly, which still prints and mails out a monthly magazine (I have a subscription).
Note: The links in the following paragraphs were in the original article.
The grand jury report in the case of Kermit Gosnell, 72, is among the most horrifying I've read. "This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy - and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors," it states. "The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels - and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths."
Charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, Gosnell is now standing trial in a Philadelphia courtroom. An NBC affiliate's coverage includes testimony as grisly as you'd expect. "An unlicensed medical school graduate delivered graphic testimony about the chaos at a Philadelphia clinic where he helped perform late-term abortions," the channel reports. "Stephen Massof described how he snipped the spinal cords of babies, calling it, 'literally a beheading. It is separating the brain from the body.' He testified that at times, when women were given medicine to speed up their deliveries, 'it would rain fetuses. Fetuses and blood all over the place.'"
One former employee described hearing a baby screaming after it was delivered during an abortion procedure. "I can't describe it. It sounded like a little alien," she testified. Said the Philadelphia Inquirer in its coverage, "Prosecutors have cited the dozens of jars of severed baby feet as an example of Gosnell's idiosyncratic and illegal practice of providing abortions for cash to poor women pregnant longer than the 24-week cutoff for legal abortions in Pennsylvania."
The babies he killed are all in heaven, because they're all innocent of any human crimes.
If Kermit Gosnel, who killed them, wants to join them there, he had better start spending a lot of time begging God to forgive him.
The last prosecution witness told the jury that he saw, as an eyewitness, ten babies breathing before Kermit Gosnel killed them. Oh by the way, some third-trimester abortions are permitted under the "Roe vs. Wade" Supreme Court ruling. Any baby that breathes is a baby that has a right to life. If those parents don't want that baby, there are millions of married couples who would love to be given that baby because they can't have babies of their own.
PHILADELPHIA — A doctor who was responsible for cutting the spines of babies after
botched abortions was convicted Monday of three counts of first-degree murder in a case that became a sharp rallying cry for anti-abortion activists.
The doctor, Kermit Gosnell, 72, operated a clinic in West Philadelphia catering to poor women that prosecutors called a “house of horrors.”
The case turned on whether the late-term pregnancies Dr. Gosnell terminated resulted in live births. His lawyer, Jack McMahon, argued that because Dr. Gosnell injected a drug in utero to stop the heart, the deliveries were stillbirths, and movements that witnesses testified to observing — a jerked arm, a cry, swimming motions — were mere spasms.
But after deliberating 10 days, the jury found Dr. Gosnell guilty in the deaths of victims known as Baby A, Baby C and Baby D. He was found not guilty of murdering Baby E.
Prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty when the trial moves into the sentencing phase next Tuesday.
Superstar Will Smith was brought into this world by the most notorious abortion doctor in America, DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively.
And now Kermit Gosnell, who is serving life in prison for running a horrific clinic, is trying to make contact with the Collateral Beauty actor in a bid to get him to take up his case.
‘I’m fond of asserting that there could never be a Men in Black if I had dropped you on your head,’ Gosnell, now 76, wrote in a letter he sent to Smith, a copy of which has been provided to DailyMail.com.
Father-of-six Gosnell was convicted in 2013 of the murder of three babies who were born alive and the involuntary manslaughter of a patient who died during a botched abortion. He agreed to a sentence of life without parole if prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.
September 8, 2017
Today, I added these two videos and the text below them.
Animated video of development in the womb
Still photos captured by Lennart Nillson
Here's a review of this movie on the Hot Air website.
October 13, 2018
A movie has been made about these crimes. Link to their IMDb page. The first video is the announcement from the producers. The second video is the official trailer for the PG-13 movie, which is in movie theaters for a limited run this weekend.
The Hot Air website has reviewed the movie. After an introduction that covers the making of the movie and the personal views of the reviewer, these are the first two paragraphs of the review.
Gosnell has a number of things going for it right off the bat, and the film takes advantage of them all. The story is already horrific, dramatic, suspenseful, and provocative. Rather than fall into the bad practice of applying “style” or intrusive camera techniques, director Nick Searcy plays it straight and lets the story tell itself more organically. The cast is solid and delivers realistic portrayals without chewing scenery and distracting from the story. Searcy himself probably has the most fun, playing the role of defense attorney in courtroom scenes, but that works because the others are playing their roles without overdoing it, especially Sarah Jane Morris as Lexy McGuire as the assistant DA whose pro-choice views get a serious challenge in her work on this case. AlonZo “Zo” Rachel, a longtime favorite in the blogosphere and on social media, does a very good job in the supporting role of Detective Stark, the partner to Dean Cain’s lead role of Detective James Wood, which Cain pulls off well.
However, the best performances in the film come out of the clinic itself. The clinic employees who testify in the courtroom scenes don’t get a lot of screen time but they are tremendously effective as the trial builds to its climax. Dominique Deon as Betty Goodwin stands out in a critical role, setting up the jury’s decision and the conclusion of the trial. Janine Turner (Northern Exposure) has an intriguing cameo as a abortion-clinic medical director called as a trial witness by the prosecution to differentiate Gosnell’s actions from other abortion clinics, a small part of the film’s repeated message that the prosecution wasn’t focused on fighting abortion — just murder.
"Janine Turner (Northern Exposure) has an intriguing cameo as a abortion-clinic medical director called as a trial witness by the prosecution to differentiate Gosnell’s actions from other abortion clinics, a small part of the film’s repeated message that the prosecutor wasn't focused on fighting abortion - just murder."
The prosecutor was fighting murder, not abortion.
The Lennart Nilsson Award
The Lennart Nilsson Award Foundation was established in 1998 in recognition of the world-renowned Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson and his extraordinary body of work. It's main aim is to promote education, training and research within the medical, biological and engineering sciences through the use of images. This is achieved through the Lennart Nilsson Award, an international award bestowed annually upon an individual in recognition of outstanding contributions within the realm of scientific photography. Award recipients are people who work in the spirit of Lennart Nilsson, revealing science to the world in beautiful, unique and powerful ways.
About Lennart Nilsson
Born in Strängas, Sweden, on August 24, 1922, Lennart Nilsson began his career as a freelance photojournalist. His work spans more than seven decades, beginning in the early 1940s when modern photojournalism made its breakthrough in Sweden.
His early photographic essays, including A Midwife in Lapland (1945), Polar Bear Hunting in Spitzbergen (1947), Congo (1948) and Sweden in Profile
(1954) gained international attention through publication in leading photojournalism magazines such as Life, Picture Post and Illustrated.
In the 1950s, Nilsson began experimenting with new photographic techniques including macro- and microphotography, which led to the books, Ants (Myror) and Life in the Sea (Liv i hav).
In the 1960s, the use of specially designed, ultra-slim endoscopes made it possible for Nilsson to capture on film the inner workings of blood vessels and various cavities of the human body. The book A Child is Born (Ett barn blir till) first published in 1965 is undoubtedly Nilsson’s most famous work.
In the 1970s, Nilsson began to use the scanning electron microscope to capture images of the inner workings of the human body. This shift in the focus of his work gave Nilsson the opportunity to work on the premises of Karolinska Institute.
What remains remarkable is the combination of his unending patience to fully explore his subjects, combined with a journalist’s eye, artist’s sense of form and colour, and technician’s inventive skills to maximize available light and capture spectacular images.
In 1976 Lennart Nilsson was awarded an honorary doctorate at Karolinska Institutet. In 2009 he was given the title Professor’s name by the Swedish Government and in 2012 he was awarded the Karolinska Institutet Jubilee Medal (Gold class) for his long-standing and groundbreaking contributions to the development and innovative advancement of medical photography.
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) sometimes watches her husband shoot guns recreationally.
CNN released a taped interview with Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, where Kelly is shown shooting a Glock 9 millimeter handgun at pots and bottles while Giffords watches on a patio at her mother's house in Arizona.
The Glock 9 millimeter is the same gun that was used in the shooting massacre in Tucson, Arizona in early 2011 where Giffords suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
Kelly notes that the Glock he fires recreationally holds 17 rounds while the one used in Tucson held 33 rounds.
Kelly and Giffords have become some of the most prominent proponents of strengthening gun laws. They run the group Americans for Responsible Solutions which advocates policies meant to reduce gun violence.
Americans for Responsible Solutions recently released a video of Kelly buying a Sig Sauer .45 in Tucson, Arizona. The video argued that it's currently too easy to buy a gun.
President Obama has urged Congress to pass new gun laws. On Monday Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced that he would block a package of gun-control measures Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hopes to bring to the Senate.
Note: This article has been rewritten since it was first published and since I copied and pasted the text onto this blog page. The text of this story has been changed without any notification to the readers, but the original article is available on this web page, which includes a link to this CNN story, which was published April 9, 2013.
February 16, 2019 update
There's a lot of material in this update. Please take the time to read it thoroughly.
Mark Kelly is now a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
Mark Kelly, the former astronaut and gun-control activist who is married to Gabrielle Giffords, announced on Tuesday that he would run for Senate in Arizona, challenging appointed Senator Martha McSally and intensifying the Democratic threat to Republicans’ narrow control of the chamber.
Mr. Kelly’s entry sets up a possible general election between two combat veterans in a swiftly changing state, and may elevate Arizona further as a 2020 battleground. Both parties already view Arizona as a swing state in the presidential race and in 2018 Democrats won a Senate race there for the first time in decades.
Ms. McSally, an Air Force veteran, was narrowly defeated in a statewide race last year by Senator Kyrsten Sinema. Ms. McSally joined the Senate anyway a few months later, appointed to fill the vacancy left by John McCain’s death after a placeholder appointee, Jon Kyl, resigned.
Mr. Kelly, 54, unveiled his campaign in an online video highlighting his experience as an astronaut and Navy pilot. Ms. Giffords, a former member of Congress who was shot and nearly killed by a deranged gunman in 2011, appeared beside him in the message.
These are 20 links to other stories about his new campaign. All of these stories were published on the same day as the New York Times story. Some of these stories refer to the Senate seat as "John McCain's seat" even though he died on August 25, 2018 and was replaced in early September by Jon Kyl, who was once a Senator himself.
Even though this April 9, 2013 story includes a video of a CNN reporter, visiting Mark Kelly's home with his permission, and firing a 9mm Glock handgun at some clay flowerpots, U.S. Senate Candidate Mark Kelly says that people should not own firearms.
This video was uploaded to YouTube by the PBS Newshour on October 2, 2017. This is their description of the content of the video.
Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and retired NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, co-founders of gun control advocacy organization Americans for Responsible Solutions, respond to Las Vegas shootings.
Starting at 1 minute, 14 seconds of the PBS video, Mark says these words;
"Every year, roughly 33,000 people die from guns. Over 100,000 more are shot. This is the worst-case scenario. It's haunted our dreams, that we would wake up to the news of a massacre like this. Weapons of war in the hands of a determined killer with a tactical advantage This was an ambush if there ever was one."
WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after reclaiming the House majority, Democrats are introducing gun control legislation timed for the anniversary of the shooting of former Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats introduced a bill to expand background checks for sales and transfers of firearms on Tuesday, the eighth anniversary of the day Giffords was shot in the head at a constituent meeting in Arizona.
Giffords, who co-founded a gun safety group with her husband, Mark Kelly, said in a statement Friday she was thrilled that her former House colleagues were responding to a gun-violence epidemic that killed nearly 40,000 people in 2017.
The bill expanding background checks "marks a critical first step toward strengthening America's gun laws and making our country a safer place to live, work, study, worship and play," Giffords said. "I stand ready to do everything in my power to get this legislation across the finish line."
Democrats promised swift action on gun control after the party regained the House majority following eight years of Republican rule.
This is the last quoted sentence.
"Democrats promised swift action on gun control after the party regained the House majority following eight years of Republican rule."
Democrats promise 'swift action on gun control' but ...
... but many of the Democrats are hypocrites.
This is the second paragraph of the April 9, 2013 story in The Hill, titled "Giffords and husband still enjoy recreational gun use", that is quoted and linked at the top of this page.
CNN released a taped interview with Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, where Kelly is shown shooting a Glock 9 millimeter handgun at pots and bottles while Giffords watches on a patio at her mother's house in Arizona.
The CNN story that was linked in the April 9, 2013 story in The Hill included this video, which runs just under three minutes.
Starting at 35 seconds, you will see him shooting at clay flowerpots and plastic water bottles with a 9mm Glock handgun that has a 17-round clip.
He originally bought it as a gift for her. He says so in the video.
This five-second video, uploaded in August 2013, shows him shooting a shotgun at objects made of clay at a shooting range in Napa, California.
If I find other videos, I will add them onto this page.
If Gabrielle Gifford's husband can buy and use a firearm and ammo for it, and if he tells the rest of the country that we have no right to buy and use a firearm and ammo for it, then he's either a dictator or a hypocrite.
Either way, the National Rifle Association is right and he's wrong.
The person who posted this February 6, 2014 tweet was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle.
This February 7, 2014 article in the Oregon Catalyst summarizes the obvious discrepancy in Mark Kelly's political philosophy. These are the first four paragraphs. All of the links in these paragraphs were in their article.
Mark Kelly, the husband of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, went shooting yesterday after testifying in favor of additional gun control at the Oregon Legislature. Kelly, a former Navy captain and former astronaut, was in Oregon to testify at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in support of Sen. Floyd Prozanski’s “universal background check” bill, SB 1551.
As we reported on Wednesday, the man who shot Gabby Giffords in 2011 purchased the gun legally after passing a background check, and so Mark Kelly’s reason for testifying yesterday was more about his support of gun control in general than any relevance to the Oregon bill. In fact, Kelly acknowledged yesterday that the man who had shot his wife had passed a background check.
Kelly testified as part of a panel along with Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber and Donna Henderson, an Assistant Chief of Investigations at the Portland Police Bureau.
Later in the day, Kelly went shooting at the Portland Police Bureau Central Precinct Range.
Mike Thompson was talking gun safety legislation as he slipped two yellow shells into a 20-gauge Browning shotgun, snapped the breech closed and yelled, “Pull.”
Two orange sporting clays sailed in a low arc above a muddy field, dark clouds hanging over San Pablo Bay in the distance. Thompson aimed and fired twice.
The first flying target shattered, raining debris on the ground below. A second disc suffered the same fate.
The white-haired congressman stared for a moment with a satisfied look before turning to reload.
“I’m just trying to stop the bad guys from getting guns,” Thompson said after a day of shooting, which included an early morning duck hunt at the Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area.
But the St. Helena Democrat, lifelong hunter, Vietnam War veteran and chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, has yet to hit his most important mark.
The reason why so many advocates of gun control find it hard to pass their favorite legislation is precisely because many of them aren't willing to let the public share their own love for guns. The photo below was at the top of the article in Sonoma Magazine.
If gun-control advocates want more votes ...
... especially the votes of young women, a group that both parties are actively recruiting, they must accept two facts.
Many of these women are the victims of violent crime, and
Many of them are preparing themselves so that they can prevent it before it happens.
The purses shown below allow a woman who has a permit to carry a concealed firearm, These are not the only styles that are available.
The women who buy and use these purses have made the simple decision that they do not want to become victims.
Some of them, who have already been the victims of violent crime, were so horrified by it that they don't ever want to repeat that experience or anything like it ever again.
The Democrat Party should listen to some very old advice
If you want other people to throw away their guns, set a good example by throwing yours away.
That is especially true for Mark Kelly, who used his own Glock handgun to shoot some clay flowerpots while a CNN reporter watched.
A Saudi cleric has called for all female babies to be fully covered by wearing the face veil, commonly known as the burka, citing reports of little girls being sexually molested.
In a TV interview on the Islamic al-Majd TV, which seems to date back to mid-last year, Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, stressed that wearing the veil will protect baby girls. The Sheikh tried to back his assertion with claims of sexual molestation against babies in the kingdom, quoting unnamed medical and security sources.
Recently picked up on social media, Sheikh Dauod’s statement prompted wide condemnation from his fellow Saudis on Twitter. Some tweeps called for the Sheikh to be held accountable because his ruling denigrates Islam and breaches individual privacy.
Sheikh Mohammad al-Jzlana, former judge at the Saudi Board of Grievances, told Al Arabiya that Dauod’s ruling was denigrating to Islam and Shariah and made Islam look bad.
Jzlana urged people to ignore unregulated fatwas and explained that there are special regulations set by the Saudi authorities to administer religious edicts and appoint those who are entitled to issue them.
He said that he feels sad whenever he sees a family walking around with a veiled baby, describing that as injustice to children.
