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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)
________________________________________________________________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)
________________________________________________________________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)
________________________________________________________________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)
________________________________________________________________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)
________________________________________________________________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)
________________________________________________________________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)
________________________________________________________________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)
________________________________________________________________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.â€
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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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Paul Hackett Watch: An Unterfuhrer Moment FLAP Part II
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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Michael Ramirez on the DEBATE Between Bush and Ahmadinejad
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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Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA Report of August 31, 2006
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.
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 Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Dentistry Today Watch: Gnathology of Yesterday
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:
ARCUSdigma (3D-ultrasonic navigator)
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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Iran Nuclear Watch: IAEA States that Iran Has Missed Deadline to Halt Uranium Enrichment
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 Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Israel at War Watch: Hezbollah: We’re Arming for Second Round
Ynet: Hizbullah: We’re arming for second round
Hizbullah representative in Iran Muhammad Abdullah Sif al-Din, said Wednesday that Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah has a new strategic plan to rearm ahead of the “next round against Israel .
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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Paul Hackett Watch: An Unterfuhrer Moment
Hot Air: Video: Hackett calls Dan Senor “Unterfuhrerâ€
How do you spell mean-spirited/hothead FORMER and now irrelevant politico?
PAUL HACKETT
Blogosphere:
- Michelle Malkin
- Wizbang
- Riehl World View
- Ed Driscoll.com
- Blog-o-Fascists
- Acme Anvil Co. » Iraq Vet Paul Hackett Disgraces Himself — Calls Dan Senor “Unterfuhrerâ€
- MOONBAT ON DISPLAY « Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger
- Sister Toldjah » Evening moonbat roundup
- The Art of Politics
- Hoystory » Blog Archive » Godwin’s law
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Uranium Enrichment Deadline Day
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.
AP: Iran welcomes showdown on deadline day
U.S. and European officials appeared ready to push for low-level sanctions against Iran like travel bans Thursday as country’s president made clear he would not compromise on the day of a U.N. deadline.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not directly address the deadline but maintained Iran’s right to nuclear technology in a speech to a cheering crowd of thousands in Orumiyeh in northwestern Iran.
“The Iranian nation will not succumb to bullying, invasion and the violation of its rights,” Ahmadinejad told a crowd of thousands.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi shrugged off the possibility of sanctions, telling state-run television that Iran “will find a way to avoid pressure eventually,”
The deadline was widely reported on the front pages of major Iranian newspapers. The daily Aftab said the showdown offers “the enemies” a chance to ratchet up pressure on Iran.
Another newspaper, Kargozaran, expressed doubt that the U.S. would muster enough support within the Security Council for punitive sanctions.
NO surprises and it is off to the United Nations Security Council where BANAL sanctions and resolutions will rule the day.
The IAEA report that states that Iran has been enriching uranium at Natanz as late as Tuesday is due out soon.
In a speech devoted mostly to local issues, Ahmadinejad said enemies of the country were trying to stir up differences among the Iranian people, but “I tell them: you are wrong. The Iranian nation is united.”
“They claim to be supporting freedom but they support the most tyrannical governments in the world to pursue their own interests,” he said, referring to the United States.
“They talk about human rights while maintaining the most notorious prisons,” he said. “Those powers that do not abide by God and follow evil are the main source of all the current problems of mankind.”
Blah Blah Blah……Iran covets nuclear weapons and the United States and Israel will DENY them.
So, what is next?
Iran’s refusal to heed the Security Council demand to stop enrichment will be detailed in a confidential IAEA report to be completed Thursday and given to the Security Council. That is likely to trigger council members — by mid-September — to begin considering economic or political sanctions.
The U.S. State Department has not said publicly what it might seek. But U.S. and European officials have indicated they might push for travel restrictions on Iranian officials or a ban on sale of dual-use technology to Iran.
The hope is to start with relatively low-level punishments in a bid to attract Russian and Chinese support, the officials have signaled.
More extreme would be a freeze on Iranian assets or a broader trade ban — although opposition to that by Russia, China and perhaps others would be strong, particularly since it could cut off badly needed oil exports from Iran.
Russia and China seem likely, in any case, to resist U.S.-led efforts for a quick response, which likely means sanctions do not loom immediately.
That has prompted the Bush administration to consider rallying allies to impose sanctions or financial restrictions of their own, independent of the Security Council.
The United Nations will discuss this matter for weeks and impose some limited sanctions. The Bush Administration will “slow play” the sanction issue since new intelligence says that Iran is five years away from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
But, is this intelligence believable?
NO
The Mullahs and Ahmadinejad covet a nuclear weapon in the worst way.
Will sanctions be effective?
NO
F-15 and F-16’s from Israel and B-2 with “Bunker Busting Bombs” will be MORE effective when a “POINT OF NO RETURN” is reached.
No more talks – PREPARE THE MILITARY DETERRENCE AND MISSILE DEFENSE.
Stay tuned…..
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Cox & Forkum: Five Minutes to Midnight
Iran Nuclear Watch: President Ahmadinejad’s Letter to German Chancellor Merkel Released
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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 Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir August 31, 2006