"...Don't lean on me man,

    Cause you can't afford the ticket

    I'm back from suffragette city

    Oh don't lean on me man

    Cause you ain't got time to check it

    You know my suffragette city

    Is outta sight...she's all right...

 

    Ohhh, wham bam thank you maam!..."

 

                        - Selected partial lyrics from the

                          song, "Suffragette City", performedby

                          David Bowie on his album "The Rise

                          and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the

                          Spiders from Mars" (1972).

 

 

To All,

     Given the trends from recent polls, it may just be that the Lady From Chappaqua will have the last laugh...

 

Paging Dr. Mengele:

     Andrew McCarthy's article at today's National Review website, on Barack Obama's previous vote to permit infanticide in cases of unwanted children who somehow "...cling to life...", despite being subjected to a late term induced abortion, begs the question of abortion statistics and demographics in the Land of Lincoln.

 

     The Illinois Department of Public Health reports that in 2006, there were some 46,467 reported induced pregnancy terminations in that state. Of these, some 3,940 were from women coming from out of state to have the procedure in Illinois, and another 2,115 cases where original state of residence was not known or reported (How many of these may be out-of-state-teens being brought in by Planned Parenthood is unknown at press time.).

 

     What is broken out by IDPH for 2006 is that out of the 46,467 induced abortions, some 3,157 involved teens under or at the age of 17 years. As a point of comparison, these teen cases are roughly equivalent to the number of firearms-related homicides for the entire state of California (gang killings included), and the entire number of reported abortions for Illinois in 2006 is roughly 50% higher than the entire number of all firearms-related deaths nationwide (suicides included).

 

    Further analysis of IDPH numbers for 2006 reveal that nearly half of all induced abortions performed in Illinois were performed in, and reported by, Cook County(22,961). Wikipedia (take it or leave it) reports that the county seat, the city of Chicago, comprises some 54% of the population of Cook County, with some 26.14% of Chicago's population being African American.

 

   One could surmise that if the number of induced abortions were proportional to the ethnic break outs of Chicago, some 6,000 or so of these were induced abortions of "brothers" and "sisters" performed on African American females from all age groups. Of course, economic factors related to lower income females may make this number substantially different.

 

     Whether Candidate Obama continues to maintain that these induced abortions are really being carried out to prevent the "punishment" of women subject to circumstances most unfair, or simply to satisfy an interest group more intent upon the effect of eugenics than it's moral justification, is still unknown. What can be told is that a politician who would countenance such a form of state-sponsored infanticide as previously practiced by such pro-slavery political units as the city-state of Sparta may be too behind the times of Enlightenment philosophy as to be entrusted with the reigns of power. Suffice it to say that if Candidate Obama continues to countenance the premature termination of the lives of future voters and constituents, pre- or post- delivery, he will only do harm to the very basis of a Bill of Rights he allegedly supports. That would be a bad thing, and unacceptable from someone who purports to support the Constitution.

 

Links at:

http://www.idph.state.il.us/health/abortion/abort06.htm

 

http://www.idph.state.il.us/health/abortion/Abortion73-current.htm

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_County,_Illinois#Demographics

 

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzRhZTgzNmRlZWE0MTA1YTM4NWMxN2UxMjA5YjBkZTE=

 

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NmU4NWQ5NjA5YTY4MTlkZTAwYjU1NTljZDM2ZTQwMDk=

 

 

Brother, Where Art Thou?:

     Stefanie Balogh writes at the Sydney Herald Sun about the recent discovery of yet another step-sibling of Barack Obama being found in difficult circumstances.

 

    In this case, George Hussein Onyango Obama has been found living in a shack near Nairobi, apparently on an income of about a dollar a day.

 

    Whether this story truly highlights the kinds of difficulties pointed out by Ayan Hirsi Ali related to Muslim polygamy (and highlighted in the current controversies related to the FLDS in Arizona and Texas), or is simply a tale of someone who is "outta sight, outta mind", it will be interesting to see. If Candidate Obama will tweak his charitable deductions levels this year by contributing the monetary equivalent of 10 minutes of fuel consumption of "O-Force One" (about $ 1000) so that his step-brother may have a hot meal and live in a room larger than that of a coffee can, perhaps then one may be able to give credence to Obama's sincerity as a Christian.

 

 

Links at:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24226262-5012748,00.html 

 

http://www.airbaltic.com/public/32313.html

 

http://www.airnav.com/fuel/local.html

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/08/03/politics/fromtheroad/entry4317827.shtml

 

 

The Cycle of Birth and Death:

     Blogger Jeff Schreiber at America's Right.com is reporting that a prominent Hillary! supporter is suing in the Federal Eastern District of Pennsylvania to get an injunction stopping the Obama Candidacy over "irregularities" in Obama's birth records and eligibility to run for the Presidency.

 

    Phillip Berg is described by Schreiber as a former gubernatorial and senatorial candidate in Pennsylvania, as well as being a former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania.

 

    In other words, what had previously been the sole province of "right wing bloggers" has now been morphed into an actual lawsuit by a Democrat Party member more than a tad peeved in the idea that The Callow One is about to garner the Donkey Party's Nod to Greatness.

 

    At this time, there appears to be no reaction from Governor Rendell's office.

 

    One of the interesting aspects in this case is that, if true, the Dems may be "stuck" choosing a runner-up who is still apparently more than 20 million samolians in the hole. If Obama is disqualified through such an issue as constitutionally-mandated birth requirements, it is also likely that a large portion of the Democrat Party will be "miffed" that their guy did not continue to get the kind of pass that he has been accustomed to since he entered politics. One cannot speak to the merits of a case that has some strange similarities to the current controversy over the Chinese Women's Gymnastics team. Suffice it to say that one is going back to Costco to get a pallet's worth of Jiffy Pop. Stay tuned.

 

Links at:

http://www.americasright.com/2008/08/obama-sued-in-philadelphia-federal.html

 

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/22/disclosure-reports-show-clinton-still-deeply-in-debt/

 

Respectfully,