Lulapilgrim wrote:

I did some research, and Dr. Nathanson renounced abortion in 1977, after helping to make it legal in New York in 1970.  Soooooo, 10,000 abortions in 7 years?

If he worked every day and never rested, that's still 3.9 abortions per day.  If he worked a normal 5 day workweek, it's 4.5 abortions per day. Also, according to the CDC, approximately 100,000 abortions are performed every year in New York City.  So, if he performed 10,000 of those, that's approximately 7% of all abortions between 1970 and 1977 that he, himself performed in a city of over 10 million people.  Really?

So, that fact is just laughably false.  If you're playing fast and loose with that one, who knows what else is suspect in what you're saying?

That being said, I think abortion is wrong and a terrible, ugly thing.  I'd like to see there be zero abortions every year.  but what are we going to do, make it illegal?  We tried to stop another societal vice, drinking, during prohibtion, and it only increased drinking in the US.  Are we going to send doctors to jail for murder of a fetus?  And the mother?  Conspiracy to commit murder?  Ok, so we prevented you from having an abortion, now you're going to be forced to have the child and then you go to jail and your child is raised by the government in a foster system, right? (because unless the baby is white, s/he has little chance of being adopted)  Should the doctors and mothers get the death penalty?  If a fetus is life, isn't that the only logical thing to do?  If that's the road you want to go down, fine.  But I'd rather prevent abortions by preventing unwanted pregnancies, something the pro-life crowd has not seemed to embrace very whole-heartedly.

What I've got to say about Barack Hussein Obama is that he is a, insincere, selfish hypocrite.

When he was cadging votes during the Maryland and Virgina primaries, he said that "we've got to be our brother's keeper" and "hope focuses on the future"..

First, by his vote against the bill, Obama refuses to recognize the little baby who survives an abortion IS  his little brother (or sister).

Second, when Obama says, we've got to be our brother's keeper, he doesn't mean it to include the little baby who survives an abortion .

He selfishly allowed his own little girls to come to term and be born, yet by his 100% pro abortion voting record denies other babies to be born. What about their hope? What about their future?

Obama has promised the pro-abortion crowd that he'll work diligently to deny unborn babies their freedom to be born to enjoy all lifes choices. By his votes, Obama denies unborn babies their unalienable First Amendment right to life.

He claims he's a Christian, yet doesn't obey Almighty God's commandment, "Thou shalt not kill".  You can't vote for abortion and be Christian at the same time.

Obama uses people, even his own daughters. At a townhall meeting in Pennsylvania, he said something like this:

 when it comes to HIV/AIDS, education is most important, teaching children about contraception, becasue I've got 2 daughters 9 and 6 years old. I'm going to teach them about faith and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.  

His solution is to KILL THE MISTAKE. His solution is to KILL HIS GRANDCHILD.

We've got to get the truth out....as far as the Democrat's presidential candidate, Obama is concerned.  He sees some unborn babies as punishment, not gifts from Almighty God.

His message is----if elected, I will continue the killing our progeny in the womb by keeping abortion on demand.  Some unborn babies arent' hope for the future...and they certainly aren't our little brothers and sisters.

Innocent people also protest their innocence but without a trial it is rather hard to tell who is guilty and who  isn't.

Tell me would you support the US lauching a missile attack on the UK to kill somebody they thought was a terroist but were unable to prove it? 

Most of the victims were not Indonesians and the bar was popular with tourists from the 'westen' world and of the contries who lost most people three out of the top four were members of the Coalition of the willing.

Attacking a series of Islamic countries and constanly threating others is hardly the best way of calming down an already inflamed and sensetive region(s) of the world.

Attacking the country that did harbour the people who attacked you was one thing, attacking another (who were not under the tyranny of Osama) annoyed vast numbers across the world and different types of people.   Over 750 000  marched against the war in London, your major ally in this war and the London tube bombers directly cited the Iraq war as a reason for their actions.  If that happens in the UK try to image what happens in other parts of the world.  Until recently the targets of the major attacks in the world (Spain, the Austrialians in the Bali Bomb, the UK) were all contries that sent troops into Iraq.

Acting like you have a god given right to do what you want to whom you want when you want with no regard for anything or anybody else will just increase the world's view of the USA as a bully nation. 

Bush/Cheney are the CEO administration and they prove what an utter failure that theory of government is. 

Quoted from CNN:

The national average price for a gallon of gasoline rose above $4.02, motorist group AAA reported Monday. Gas prices reached the $4 milestone for the first time Sunday following Friday's staggering $10.75 jump in the price of a barrel of oil.

The average price is $4 a gallon or more in 22 states and the District of Columbia, according to AAA.

What's more, gasoline prices in the survey have risen for 32 of the past 34 days, setting records on 30 of those days.

As gas prices rise, demand for large, low mileage vehicles has fallen and some of the nation's largest automakers have been hit hard.

General Motors (GM, Fortune 500) announced plans last week to shut four truck and SUV plants and said it would ramp up producing more fuel-efficient cars. Ford (F, Fortune 500) also recently said it would trim production of large trucks and roll out more small cars and crossovers.

In addition to high gas prices, the slump in the housing market is also contributing to Americans' negative view of the economy.

Last month, a key measure of U.S. home prices in the first quarter fell at the sharpest rate in two decades. Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller's national home price index fell 14.1% in the first quarter compared with a year earlier - its lowest level since its inception in 1988.

The economy is also challenged by a job market that appears to be shrinking.

Last week, the Labor Department reported that the nation's unemployment rate soared to 5.5% in May from 5% in April. It was the biggest jump in the unemployment rate since 1986 and much higher than economists had forecast.

On Wall Street, credit has become scarce as investors are reluctant to take risks amid the shaky economy. As a result, many major investment firms have reported steep losses.

Lehman Brothers (LEH, Fortune 500) said Monday it will book a $2.8 billion second quarterloss and announced plans to raise $6 billion in fresh capital by selling stock.

The brokerage blamed writedowns, trading losses and failed attempts to hedge its position for the loss, which was its first since the firm went public in 1994.

The nation's economic woes have led many economists to believe the country slid into a recession last year, although a consensus has not been reached.

The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released in May found that 79% of respondents - nearly 4 out of 5 - believe the economy is in recession. That measure was up from 74% in March, 66% in February and 46% just a half-year back.