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 Stop the ACLU Blogburst Watch: The ACLU vs. America — The Numbers Don’t Lie

The ACLU thinks that parents have no right to know if their pregnant underage daughter is seeking an abortion.

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80% of Americans think that parents have the right to know if their minor daughters are seeking an abortion. (CBS News Poll July 13-14, 2005)
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The ACLU believes anyone, for any reason at any time should be allowed to abort a child.

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75% of Americans believe that there should at least be some restrictions on abortion. (CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll June 24-26, 2005)
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The ACLU opposes abstinence education.

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96% of American parents with children under 17 want their kids taught that abstinence is the best approach to sex.
93% of American parents with children under 17 want their kids taught that having sex leads to disease and pregnancy.
85 % of American parents with children under 17 want abstinence to be taught with at least equal emphasis as contraception receives.
79% of American parents with children under 17 want their kids taught that teen sex leads to harmful psychological and physical effects. (http://www.heritage.org/research/welfare/bg1722.cfm)
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The ACLU has fought to have constitutionally-sound displays that include the Ten Commandments removed from public property.

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75% of Americans believe that the Ten Commandments should be displayed on public property. (CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll June 24-26, 2005)
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The ACLU is on record as supporting polygamy.

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92% of Americans think polygamy is morally repugnant. (The Gallup Poll May 5-7, 2003)
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The ACLU has filed cases across the nation to redefine marriage against the repeatedly expressed will of the people and, now the overwhelming affirmation by even Left-leaning courts that the state is justified in retaining the definition of marriage. (Note: the ACLU got smoked in an attempt to prevent Tennesseans from even having the opportunity to express their will at the polls this year.)

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21 states have recently voted to protect marriage by an average of 70%: Alaska 68%, Hawaii 69%, Nebraska 70%, California 61%, Nevada 67%, Arkansas 75%, Georgia 76%, Kentucky 75%, Louisiana 78%, Michigan 59%, Mississippi 86%, Missouri 71%, Montana 67%, North Dakota 73%, Ohio 62%, Oklahoma 76%, Oregon 57%, Utah 66%, Kansas 70%; Alabama 81%; Texas 76%

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The ACLU believes that children should be trapped in failed public schools, even inner-city children whose parents desperately want to escape the captivity of government education.

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69% of Americans believe that parents should be able to choose their child’s public school rather than being assigned based solely on residence location. (http://www.edreform.com/_upload/2005ncsw-poll.pdf).
63% of Americans believe that parents should be able to choose the best school for their child, whether public or private. (Zogby International Polling July 2002)
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The ACLU opposes personally-initiated prayer in school and moments of silence as well as individual acknowledgement of religious beliefs at public events.

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83% of Americans think prayer should be permitted during school activities including graduation ceremonies. (Gallup/CNN/USA Today Poll June 25-27, 1999)
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The ACLU has filed lawsuits and threatened cities and schools all across the country to prevent Christmas from being openly celebrated in public fora.

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96% of Americans celebrate Christmas
87% of Americans believe Christmas displays should be allowed on public property.
(FOX News Opinion Dynamics Poll December 3-4, 2003)
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The ACLU has attacked Mt. Soledad memorial in San Diego since the the very beginning of Bush the Elder’s Administration because it includes a cross. This is just one of countless examples of the ACLU’s seek and destroy mission to eliminate all religious symbols from public grounds.

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76% of San Diegans voted to save the Mt. Soledad National War Memorial from the ACLU’s attack on behalf of a single atheist. That atheist, Jim McElroy was quoted as saying following the vote: “It still doesn’t mean a damn thing,” he said, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “Voters should have never voted on it. It’s a waste of taxpayers’ money.”

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The reaction from ACLU-types will predictably be something like: “What is right and Constitutional is not always popular.” Easy answer: What the ACLU does is invent rights and distort the Constitution, which is why the ACLU is so UNpopular. The ACLU has used dubious interpretations of law NEVER imagined by our Founders with compliance from radical judges to push an agenda abhorrent to most Americans and indeed to the intent of the Constitution. Look no further than the ACLU’s pro bono defense of a website that advocates pedophilia and instructs its visitors in how to rape children and evade prosecution. So…the ACLU considers encouraging instruction on how to commit and get away with child rape a First Amendment right…does anyone believe that the Founders would agree? Therefore, can’t we conclude that if the ACLU is so wrong on this, that it may be wrong on many other things? Judge the evidence for yourself.

Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiller makes the point we should have.

A vast majority of the people of the United States are diametrically opposed to the ACLU and their pet agendas.

Yet we’re all being forced to fund them through our tax dollars.

Contact your Congress Critter and tell them to pass The Public Expression of Religion Act.

Sign Our Petition To Stop Taxpayer Funding of the ACLU
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Hot Air: Audio: “Unterfuhrer,” round two — Levin vs. Hackett

Allah has the NUTS on Chickenhawk provocateur and fav of the NUTROOTS, Paul Hackett.

Hackett is definitely in the running for UNHINGED MORON of the Month.

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Paul Hackett Watch: An Unterfuhrer Moment


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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged the authority of the U.N. Security Council as Iran faces a deadline to halt its uranium enrichment and he called for a televised debate with President Bush on world issues.


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Vital Perspectives: IAEA Reports on Iran’s Continued Defiance; UNSC Must Swiftly Enact Sanctions

We’ve just received a copy of the IAEA report being distributed to diplomats at the UN today on Iran’s nuclear program. Read the whole IAEA report exclusively here on Vital Perspective. As Sean McCormack, spokesman for the State Department said today, over the past three months Iran has “continued along the pathway to developing a nuclear weapon, continued in their defiance of the international community.”

The IAEA report details the progress that Iran has achieved, noting the continued testing of P-1 centrifuges with UF6 and the installation of a second 164-centrifuge cascade. It also details Iran’s continued stonewalling and lack of cooperation with the IAEA. According to the report, Iran has not made any new information available on their P-1 and P-2 centrifuge programs. Iran has not provided a copy of a 15-page document describing procedures for the reduction of UF6 to uranium metal, which is critical to understanding the full scope of offers made by ‘foreign intermediaries.’ Iran has not been forthcoming with clarification on is plutonium separation experiments. Iran has not issued multiple entry visas to weapons inspectors on time. Iran refuses to discuss Project Green Salt, address verification and transparency issues, suspend enrichment related activities or act in accordance with the Additional Protocol. As a result, the IAEA still cannot make a determination as to the nature of the Iranian nuclear program.

Read it all.

As Flap said earlier……

Oh! Yeah!  Iran has defied the United Nations deadline on uranium enrichment.

Iran defied a U.N. deadline Thursday to stop enriching uranium, opening the door for sanctions, but U.S. and other officials said no action would be sought before a key European diplomat meets with Tehran’s atomic chief next week to seek a compromise.

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Iran Nuclear Watch: Uranium Enrichment Deadline Day

The Iran Nuclear Files

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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Medgadget: Bite Down on the Gnathograph

Boing Boing points us to an amazing website of past technology, called Modern Mechanix (”Yesterday’s tomorrow, today!”) and a scary dental device (isn’t that redundant) known as the gnathograph:

WITH the aid of the “gnathograph,” an instrument as mouth-filling as its name, a dentist’s patients may now be assured of a perfect fit for artificial teeth. Fitted to the jaws as shown above, the new device registers the arrangement of the teeth and the direction of the “bite,” to guide the dentist in straightening teeth or fitting inlays, crowns, bridges, and plates. Its inventor, Dr. Beverly B. McCollum of Los Angeles, Calif., demonstrates in the picture at the right how the instrument is then mounted for use in tooling a plate to just the right shape to give the most comfortable fit in the mouth.

We’re not tooth experts, but we think dentists today accomplish similar measurements with soft alginate molds. Alginate, of course, is also used in cake frosting. This, dear readers, is progress

Well, actually there is MORE PROGRESS as Flap’s dental readers know. Here is a much more esthetic approach by Kavo:

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And the folks at Medgadget (Physicians) should know that occlusal functions cannot be obtained with alginate impressions - just models of the teeth.

Unfortunately, alginate impressions do NOT taste like cake frosting……

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In front of a picture of the Iranian late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, waves to the crowd during a public gathering at the city of Orumiyeh 540 miles (900 kilometers) northwest of the capital Tehran, Iran , Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. Iran’s president defiantly refused to compromise as a U.N. deadline for his country to stop enriching uranium arrived Thursday, saying Tehran would not be bullied into giving up its right to nuclear technology.

Reuters: IAEA says Iran fails to meet nuclear deadline

The U.N. nuclear agency declared Iran had failed to halt nuclear work by a Thursday deadline, and Tehran defied the threat of sanctions by vowing never to abandon a program the West fears could give it atom bombs.

A confidential report of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), leaked to Reuters, said Iran resumed enriching small amounts of uranium in recent days. The agency said its probes had been blocked by lack of Iranian cooperation.

“The Iranian nation will never abandon its obvious right to peaceful nuclear technology,” Iranian state radio quoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying, hours before time ran out for Iran to stop enriching uranium.

The U.N. Security Council had asked Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the IAEA, to spell out on August 31 whether Iran had complied with the deadline set in a July 31 resolution.

Iran’s disregard of the Council’s order to stop enriching uranium exposes it to possible sanctions and was widely expected after it opened a heavy water production plant on August 26 and vowed not to mothball its nuclear program.

Back to the United Nations Security Council……

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Iran Nuclear Watch: Uranium Enrichment Deadline Day

Cox & Forkum: Five Minutes to Midnight

Iran Nuclear Watch: President Ahmadinejad’s Letter to German Chancellor Merkel Released

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran President Ahmadinejad Rejects Halt to Uranium Enrichment

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Rejects United States Warning on Sanctions

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Tests Submarine to Surface Missile

Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Launches a New Phase in the Arak Heavy-Water Reactor Project

Iran Nuclear Watch: Russia Rejects United Nations Sanctions Against Iran

Iran Nuclear Watch: Israel Sending a “CLEAR” Message to Iran

The Iran Nuclear Files

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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.


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Ynet: Hizbullah: We’re arming for second round

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In an interview with the Iranian news agency Fars, al-Din said: “No one can promise us that Israel won’t attack again. Whoever lives as a neighbor to the Zionist regime is in danger and must not save any effort to obtain all of the means to defend himself. We are convinced that there still danger and the situation has not yet been solved. We must, all the time, prepare ourselves for self-defense and to plan for the next stage.”

WOW!

Flap is SO surprised.

UNSCR 1701 is a JOKE - get ready for the “KNOCK-OUT round.


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