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These are some thoughts I jotted in my journal some time ago. I haven’t taken the time to fully complete them but thought I would share anyway.

Socialism is man’s attempt to take the place of God. Government was not intended to take the place of God, but rather meant to aid in the establishment of order according to the example of God.

In effect, Socialism is the modern tower of Bable. The modern forbidden fruit. The error lies in the fact that Man is no God and therefore can not deal with his power with out it resulting in destruction and chaos. The more power given to men results only in more ultimate destruction.

I remembered I wrote those paragraphs after reading this post on why socialism will never work.

For an interesting post check out Sunflower Desert. I know this will be controversial considering some of my dear friends heart Obama. I just think this is an interesting- yet shallow- justification for killing an infant shortly before they are born. Interesting because he is even making an attempt I suppose. The fact is most democrats that are pro-choice don’t even support this “procedure” (there I go using a politically correct term… you can tell what generation I’m a part of)… In lieu of procedure insert murder.

Look in many ways I like Obama. I love the “I have a dream” inspring hope orator part of him. But when one breaks down many of his actual beliefs I absolutely can not support him.

Someone recently said (wish I remember WHO) that you can judge a nation (or a church etc.) by the way the least among them are treated. I can not think of anyone more vulnerable than the baby that is viable in the womb practically moments from being born. Even those that hate to make a big deal out of abortion in picking a candidate should see this as a reflection of his character.

Maybe my headline is a bit extreme. No, I do not think Pat Robertson has sold his soul. I know nothing of his standing before God. What I would challange is has gone so far into politics that he is dropping the Christian part? Are we simply seeing a symptom of what he truly believes is most important.

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You may have noticed that toward the bottom of my sidebar I made a little I heart Huckabee button. Yes, my official endorsement for both the republican nominee. Risky for a girl with a mixed political readership? Perhaps. But hopefully you don’t just read me for my politics

If I could take 8 minutes of your time this video should explain pretty well why I love Mike Huckabee. Many of the main issues I care about our touched on. To get further information on any of the topics you may have questions about (such as “fair tax”,) Feel free to click my I heart Huckabee button and learn more. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this video.

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Last week I reviewed the first in a series of three books from the Help! Mom! collection by Katherine DeBrecht and Kid’s Ahead Publishing, Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!.

The second in this children’s series, Help! Mom! The 9th Circuit Nabbed the Nativity festively tells the story a Politically Correct Christmas Winter Holiday!

Don’t be fooled by this book’s less offensive title. It possesses the same sting of reality, only this time the activist judges, the ACLU, and all other agendas dedicated to banishing God from society are the target. Through the story of two boys who lose their Christmas program at the hand of these organizations, your children will learn that the constitution grants us freedom of religion, not from religion.

Caricatures of “Al Snore” and “Hillary Clunkton” will have you laughing your right-wing off. Katherine DeBrecht nails it! She reduces important issues down to a simple yet entertaining way that your child will grasp. This should be a must-read during the holiday CHRISTMAS season.

To find our more about Help! Mom! The 9th Circuit Nabbed the Nativity! Go Here. “

I know, 3 posts in one day from me may be a bit much. But this was far to important for me to sit on. This kind of stuff makes it hard for me to understand Christians in the Democratic Party. I can understand choosing not be a republican, but please opt to be independent. Once again from the party that continually pledges support of infanticide. [hat tip: Brit and Grit]

Elizabeth Edwards said Tuesday that her husband’s health-care plan would provide insurance coverage of abortion.

Speaking on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards before the family planning and abortion-rights group Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Edwards lauded her husband’s health-care proposal as “a true universal health-care plan” that would cover “all reproductive health services, including pregnancy termination,” referring to abortion.

I would like to point out that Edwards has touted lately that he is a Christian and gave his life to God more dedicatedly after his son died. He claims that he has not previously talked much about it because “it’s personal”. His Christianity now demands that we the people now pay for everyone’s health care with our taxes, including their abortions.

(Obama was) Asked about his proposal for expanded access to health insurance, Obama said it would cover “reproductive-health services.” Contacted afterward, an Obama spokesman said that included abortions.

Of course! This other self-proclaimed Christian thinks infanticide is a right that should not only be protected, but paid for by the tax-payer. Where are my rights? I don’t believe in abortion and will never decide to have one, but my money will go to it in even greater numbers if these candidates get their way. Obama believes that late-term abortion (aborting babies that are viable outside of the womb and sometimes killed on their way out). I suppose this means he would support our money paying for those late-term incubated baby murders as well. Hm.

Clinton has not yet released her health-care proposal. She provided a bruising critique of Bush administration policies and Republican conservatives on abortion rights and contraception policy.

Yes, let’s see, that horrible bush administration policy that implemented

redirection of sex education funds to abstinence-only programs that do not include information on contraceptive use or condoms toto prevent the spread of AIDS.

Oh wait, that’s right. That SAFE SEX program we all grew up with worked so much better! The one where they told children that sex was safe if they used condoms… only for that same generation to be told a decade later that OOPS! Condoms don’t protect you from cancer causing HPV. NOW they think we are irresponsible if we don’t support school mandated vaccinations from the STD for our 10-12 year olds. Can you tell I’m a bit agitated?

I encourage you to read the full article written by Mike Dorning for the Chicago Tribute.

My Previous Posts on HPV:
Sept. 17,2006 Update
Update on the HPF/ Cervical Cancer Agenda
I Didn’t Know I Could Get Cancer From a Virus- Propagana of the HPV Vaccination

Thanks to Noah Tutak I have been given the opportunity to review some books by Kids Ahead Publishing! Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed, Help! Mom! The 9th Circuit Nabbed the Nativity!, and Help! Mom! Hollywood’s in My Hamper, from the Help! Mom! Series, by Katharine DeBrecht, portray the ideas of liberalism and conservatism. You will find yourself laughing as you read to your children ideas they can grasp. I will be reviewing one each of the three books written by Katharine DeBrecht each week.

(Warning to my left-leaning friends… you may not be to pleased with these posts.)

This first week I read, Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed!
Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! had me shouting “AMEN!” with the turn of every page. Katharine DeBrecht uses the illustration of children building a lemonade stand to break down important issues of our nation to a level children will understand. The issues touched on in simple terms are:

• Building a business from the ground up.
• Charity vs. taxes.
• Religious rights vs. being politically correct.
• The concept of “it takes a village” vs. Parental rights.
• And government ultimately taking over the private sector.

You will find yourself laughing the whole way through while your children simultaneously learn the value of limited government. Even the illustrations teach a lesson using satire. In a world where politicizing confuses motives and makes wrong sound right and compassionate, it may even be a good idea to pick up a few copies for your friends baffled by the issues. Its quick colorful read should be un-intimidating for anyone. Help! Mom! There are Liberals Under My Bed! belongs out of the bookshelf and on your coffee table. I know my copy will remain out in the open in the hopes anyone that walks in my home will pick them up for a quick lesson in basic economics and personal freedoms.

Edit: It was just pointed out to me by t.y. that these were printed in China. For some reason I thought I had checked that. Just be aware if you are planning on buying but are boycotting M.I.C. products. Did you know my Bible was printed in China. Been meaning to talk to some people at Zondervan!

I have been keeping my lips shut on an issue burning inside of me. Normally when injustice boils my blood I can do nothing but shout it from the proverbial rooftops. But this… this has been so hard to digest.

I’m not sure why I have been clueless. After I learned of it, I brought it up on seperate occasions to both my father and brother and they both knew about it. I can not fathom why this isn’t on MSM (main stream media) and why there isn’t total OUTCRY about it! Please Media don’t tell me for the one MILLIONTH time what Paris Hilton is up to and not report what may possibly be one of the biggest human rights violations of our time!

It isn’t bad enough that China forces abortions on women about to give birth. And repetitively commits religious persecution by imprisoning people for their faith. But what do they do with these prisoners???

THEY FREAKING HARVEST THEIR ORGANS TO MAKE MONEY FROM RICH FORIEGNERS DESPERATE TO LIVE!

This has been on my mind for awhile now, unable to imagine the depths of depravity one must be in to be able to kill a person, even 5 people at times, for the possibility of finding 1 kidney for well funded person.

Of course, China denies this. Hard proof of the practice is difficult to find, but I have been reading incredible research on the topic and believe there is more than enough convincing evidence This Report on Organ Harvesting takes an investment of time to read… but if this issue breaks your heart the way it has mine you need to schedule the time and read it.

I have not been able to figure out how to sum up my thoughts on the process, or how to appropriately compile talking points from the report… I have not attempted discussing it on Mommyzabs previously. I wanted to do this topic justice. But all I can do now is pray and beg people to listen, even if my writing can appropriately reflect the urgency. My influence in this world is completely minute. However, I’m compelled to do whatever I can.

I’m not typically a boycotter. Mostly because Christians seem to take boycotting to a ridiculous extreme. It takes A LOT to make me boycott. I’m just not sure I can give another penny to support China knowingly. The more I talk to others, the more insight I gain… the more I have to speak with my money. Sometimes it is the only language people listen too.

My Boycott won’t be able to be 100%. Sometimes it just is not feasible (like when my child gets a McD’s kids meal with his friends and there is a made in China toy with it, It is hard to tell a 3 year old they can’t have it when all their kids have their kids meal toys at the table…) But I have already begun looking at labels on everything and staying away from China.

On that tangent… since boycotting China makes it quite difficult to buy toys for your children, I found a helpful link for finding products (including toys and toy brands) that are not made in China.

I am going to publish the following article in my blog in full and I do hope that isn’t inappropriate. I want you to read it as it is a better summation than I can do. Please do take the time to read the Full Report. There is more information than could ever justly be summarized.

Organs harvested from live prisoners
Allison Hanes, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, May 18, 2007

TORONTO — Foreign patients who travel to China for transplants are likely receiving organs culled from political prisoners who are alive when their corneas, kidneys and livers are harvested, then left to die, an international group of doctors armed with a chilling Canadian report is warning.

In a new twist on an old practice of using organs from executed criminals, China has since 2000 turned to living donors and outlawed Falun Gong members to supply a growing trade in medical transplants, Doctors Against Organ Harvesting said Thursday during a public forum held at the University of Toronto.

With increasing numbers of Canadians on long waiting lists turning to China to save their own lives, the newly formed organization is seeking to warn patients that someone else’s life is likely being sacrificed in the process of obtaining organs.

“Each person who travels to China for an organ causes the death of another human,” said Dr. Torsten Trey, a Washington, D.C.-based physician and founding member of Doctors Against Organ Harvesting.

The group is sounding the alarm in the medical community about mounting evidence of unethical transplants in China. They want doctors to impress the information upon their patients. They want hospitals and universities to close their doors to visiting Chinese physicians and scholars looking to hone their techniques. And they want medical journals to reject research on transplants conducted in China.

“Medical science cannot build up any knowledge which is based on inhuman and unethical procedures,” said Trey, who compared China’s pilfering of organs from Falun Gong practitioners to Nazi medical experimentation during the Holocaust.

Doctors Against Organ Harvesting was formed in the wake of a Canadian investigation first released last year.

Authored by former Liberal MP David Kilgour and Winnipeg human rights lawyer David Matas, the report claims there is a widespread and systematic policy in China of selling organs from living donors to a growing clientele of desperate patients.

Kilgour said Thursday it is clear Falun Gong members are being targeted over other ethnic groups and religions, as a part of a campaign to villainize their spiritual practice since it fell out of favour with the government in 2000.

The report’s conclusions were drawn from interviews with a handful of eyewitnesses from the medical side, recipients of organs harvested in China, official government pronouncements, statistics showing a sudden explosion in the number of transplants performed, marketing Web sites and undercover inquiries to hospital.

In one instance, an Asian patient recounted that after rifling through a list of potential donors, a military doctor departed and returned to the hospital several times, bringing back a total of eight different kidneys before finally settling on a match.

In another, a sick patient found out one day he needed a transplant and had an organ within 24 hours.

Web sites market transplants in China in five different languages and in some cases guarantee availability of a matching organ within two weeks. The average wait time for a kidney in Canada is 32.5 months, while in British Columbia it is 52.5 months.

In surreptitious phone calls to Chinese transplant hospitals by Mandarin-speaking investigators, medical staff admitted organs came from Falun Gong prisoners.

While he is sympathetic to the plight of ailing Canadians who wait years for a transplant and face the prospect of dying before a match comes along, Kilgour said patients and doctors cannot turn a blind eye.

“Medicine cannot be practised by killing innocent people like chickens,” he said.

Gerry Koffman, a Toronto general practitioner and member of Doctors Against Organ Harvesting, said there are about 100 confirmed cases of Canadian patients from Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver having transplants done in China.

original report from Leader-Post (Regina)
(hat tip: ChinaView)

I wrote the author of the China View Blog a couple times to gain further perspective on what we can do. He is busy but has been very helpful. His 2 pieces of advice on what to do were the following:

A. as an individual, for our safety reason, buy as less Chinese products as we can. The bottom line is do not make our own life difficult, if the Chinese product is the only choice.

B. Urge/push the government/trade companies take action to boycott
until the situation is changed. Government action is the most effective way,
because for business companies profit is always their first choice and
they seldom really care about human rights.

To make it happen, we need to raise awareness and educate the officals,
NGOs, trade companies,etc, by make appointment/writing letter/email/fax,
and also the most important thing we are doing now, blogging.

I would like to add… If boycotting China gained enough buzz… like THE ONE campaign has, I do think it could be possible to effect the commerce world. If awareness was raised to the point that people were boycotting en masse and deciding to live with less in order to come against China’s human rights violations, some businesses would take the hint.

You may think, “this republican has fallen off her rocker” But realize that I serve Jesus Christ before any political party. And though Republicans have more the reputation of ruthless capitalists, and though I do believe capitalism is the less of evils in economic systems, ethics are not to be forsaken. We must always respect human life because God created it. Innocents must always be protected. Always.

PLEASE bookmark the China View Blog and stay up to date on the CONSTANT human rights violations by the Chinese government. We as a nation have got to stop turning a blind eye toward what they are doing.

Oh Boy!

I can not even remember the last time I watched the view… but I just saw this video over on Hot Air, and I am not sure I have seen anything like it on the daily talk shows since that creep Parsons (who claimed to killing Jon Benet) on That one show (don’t even remember the name?) or maybe back to Geraldo getting his nose broken! Looks like the 2 are getting super real with each other since Rosie is on her way out anyway. Check it out.

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I’m going to open a can of worms with this one.

Let’s take the War in Iraq out of the equation… And the “war on terror” is such a difficult one to define that we should be careful on discussing that one as well.

What I want to know your thoughts on is,When is war okay?

Was World War 1 justified?

World War 2?

Many Christians are against the Iraq war… And I see some of their points, though I haven’t come to a personal conclusion. I know we (US) are there and can’t just run out right now. I don’t know what specific decisions could have been made better. I know that it is good Saddam is gone. Beyond that, we need to defeat the terrorists that are there… but I have no answers.

What about situations like Darfur? What if Iran or N. Korea get Nukes and are determined to use them? What wars were worth it in the past? In both world wars, the death-tolls were incredible!

Check out these Estimates via Wikipedia: (they seem unreal to me!)

World War 1 between 15 million and 66 million (larger number includes Spainish Flu deaths.)

World War 2 between 60 million and 72 million (the deadliest war ever) Included in these casualties is an estimated 50% civilian casualty!

Korean War between 2.5 million and 3.5 million

Vietnam War between 2.3 million and 3.8 million

American Civil War est. 970,000 (including 350,000 from disease)

Current War in Iraq between 214,000 and 655,000 and counting

I could go on….

Every casualty sucks.

So what makes it worth it? At what point is the cause great enough? Was stopping Hitler from taking over the world to form his Arian nation enough?

What constitues a “just war”. I have no clue.

Not

one

clue.

I know that it is a decision you should make with fear and trembling before the Lord, but that’s about all I know.

So for all those Christians that aren’t total pacificts, but are only for “A JUST WAR”, What does a just war look like?

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