Friday, August 28, 2015

Contrasting abortion stance of 11 GOP Candidates -- 11 Sharia Governments

Abortion exemptions of 11 Governments which have Shariah Law:


Saudi Arabia

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Kuwait

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Qatar

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Bahrain

Grounds on which abortion is permitted


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Pakistan

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes




Algeria

Grounds on which abortion is permitted


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Jordan

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Eritrea

Grounds on which abortion is permitted


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Comoros

Grounds on which abortion is permitted


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Kuwait

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Morocco

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 Yes

To preserve mental health                   Yes



Source: United Nations

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2014/oct/01/-sp-abortion-rights-around-world-interactive

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11 GOP Candidates' support same abortion exemptions, based on their statements and/or voting record:




Marco Rubio

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              No

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



Scott Walker

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              No

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



Bobby Jindal

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              No

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



Rick Perry

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              ?

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



Ben Carson

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              ?

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



Rand Paul

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



Ted Cruz

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



Jeb Bush

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



Rick Santorum

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



Mike Huckabee

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 No

To preserve mental health                   No



John Kasich

Grounds on which abortion is permitted:


To save the life of the woman              Yes

To preserve physical health                 ?

To preserve mental health                   No


Updated to add:

Donald Trump

To save the life of the woman             Yes

To preserve physical health                Yes

To preserve mental health                   No

More on Trump's anti-choice stance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQfJpTUYr2Q

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Warfare and the Womb

The bumpkins go to Washington
believing that God sent them there.
Don't know much about governing,
but found a nice group for prayer

They make their superstitions
the subject of legislation
Building a cross of iron
for the whole world's subjugation

Blind guides would limit governance
to warfare and the womb.
But their shining city on the hill
is nothing but a whitewashed tomb!


What was never scripture nor science
became the central tenet that they've learned
A right to life, they protect tirelessly
only 'til the poor creature is brought to term

Their fetish for cleanliness treats
women as objects and love as hate
Can't illicit spasms privately
So it must be the domain of the state

Blind guides would limit governance
to warfare and the womb
But their shining city on the hill
is nothing but a whitewashed tomb


Blessed are the peace makers
and so they'll bomb til there's peace at last
And so they swallow the camel
even as they strain the tiny gnat

They claim moral authority
behind all they've set into motion
but the growing pile of bones
utterly refutes the notion

Blind guides would limit governance
to warfare and the womb
But their shining city on the hill
is nothing but whitewashed tomb

Monday, July 27, 2015

Turn!

Pandora's urn...
From which the darkness comes again
And how I burn...
Too cynical to call it sin
Society...
Always seemed to me as if myth
Despair I have...
Could never seem to bridge the rift

I can see that there's a chance for you
To escape the fate I've self-imposed
I know what it's like to dream
Don't let yours wilt and die like a rose

Lo! Don't turn out like me!
There's so much more that you can be
No, don't turn out like me
Don't put on chains, instead be free
Just don't turn out like me... at all!

Unceasing fire...
The reckoning is manifest
No fear of it...
It's been the path that I know best
Natural drives...
The millstone tied around my neck
Seek a new path!
For all the driven have no rest!

Lo! Don't turn out like me!
There's so much more that you can be
No, don't turn out like me
Don't put on chains, instead be free
Just don't turn out like me... at all!

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Hymn for Thanatos

Whatever it takes to make the grade; put it into yourself,
because Thanatos is your friend...

Don't be afraid to work, without concern for yourself!
Thanatos is your friend...

Earn enough, so you can drive a dead sexy fast ride,
because Thanatos is your friend...

No thought of consequence; spread your seed far and wide!
Thanatos is your friend...

No need to strap in, ride bareback instead!
You're a rodeo clown on an atomic warhead!
A true patriot! So American!
One nation under Thanatos! And if you're not in, you're a Red!

You can have the greenest lawn--a symbol of your power
Without any interloping, goddamned yellow flowers

Rub it in your neighbor's face, he's your competition.
You're fulfilling capitalism's sacred mission.

And Thanatos... is oh, so pleased with you!

Your children roll around in grass doused with toxin,
but just take them to the church that the rest of the flock's in.
Take that two hour dose of banality,
a sure-fire cure for fear of reality!

Thanatos is your friend...

Curse the different folks, because of their lifestyles,
but don't question why the sheep are so fat.
You'll understand if you believe with a smile,
Thanatos just likes them like that.

He'll soon bring us home, he promises,
and the way we live--no time at all
You too can have that personal relationship,
and soon you'll hear Thanatos' call...

Because Thanatos is your friend!
Oh, yes, tell it brother!
Thanatos is your friend!
Hallelujah!
Thanatos is your friend!
The End!

Friday, January 16, 2015

Sneak Peek at the 2016 GOP Platform

Below is my prediction of what the 2016 Republican Party platform will look like.

Spoiler alert: [Foot-notes] at bottom reveal the actual source for each "plank" ;-)  Enjoy!

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Personal Responsibility

"Providence weighs human beings. Those who do not pass the trials imposed by Providence, who are broken by them, are not destined by Providence for greater things. It is a natural necessity that only the strong remain after this selection."[1]


Celebrating Job-Creators

"Let no one say that the picture produced as a first impression of human civilization is the impression of its achievement as a whole. This whole edifice of civilization is in its foundations and in all its stones nothing else than the result of the creative capacity, the achievement, the intelligence, the industry, of individuals: in its greatest triumphs it represents the great crowning achievement of individual God-favored geniuses"[2]


The Importance of Prayer

 "we have a great deal to rectify before our own history and before our eternal Lord. Providence had withdrawn its protection from us. Our Volk had fallen, plunging to a depth to which a Volk has rarely fallen before. In this difficult plight we have once again learned how to pray; we have learned to respect our Lord; we have regained our faith in the virtues of a Volk, and have endeavored to be better again."[3]
 

Putting God Back in Schools

"Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith"[4]


Cultural Exceptionalism

"We, therefore, go our way into the future with the deepest belief in God. Would all we have achieved been possible had Providence not helped us? I know that the fruits of human labor are hard-won and transitory if they are not blessed by the Omnipotent. Work such as ours which has received the blessings of the Omnipotent can never again be undone by mere mortals."[5]


Family Values

"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."[6]


Enforcing Censorship

"The life of the people must be freed from the asphyxiating perfume of our modern eroticism, as it must be from unmanly and prudish refusal to face facts. In all these things the aim and the method must be governed by the thought of preserving our nation's health both in body and soul"[7]
 

Strong National Defense

"it is cheaper to arm prior to certain events than to meet these unprepared and pay tribute afterwards."[8]


The Duty To Breed

"means for preventing a birth are offered for sale in every chemist's shop... what is in practice a cessation of fecundity in millions of our best people is not regarded as an evil or an offense against the morals of this sanctimonious society; it is instead a sop to its short-sighted slackness of thought. For if it were otherwise, they would have to rack their brains and consider how to make provision for nourishing and conserving the healthy representatives of our nation, who should perform a similar service for the benefit of generations to come."[9]


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Oh, and those were actually all said by...

[1] -- Adolf Hitler; from Munich  Löwenbräukeller (November 8, 1943)
[2] -- Adolf Hitler; from speech to Dusseldorf Industry Club (Jan. 27, 1932)
[3] -- Adolf Hitler; from speech in Cologne (March 28, 1936)
[4] -- Adolf Hitler; at Nazi-Vatican Concordat (April 26, 1933)
[5] -- Adolf Hitler; from speech at Regensburg City Hall (June 6, 1937)
[6] -- Adolf Hitler; from national proclamation (February 1, 1933)
[7] -- Adolf Hitler; from Mein Kampf 
[8] -- Adolf Hitler; from speech in Saarbriiken (October 9, 1938)
[9] -- Adolf Hitler; from 'Mein Kampf

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