Yet another example of the Culture of Death’s war upon freedom and human decency:

United Nations officials have asked the Human Rights Council in Geneva to address the issue of physicians worldwide who refuse to perform legal abortions.

Brian Clowes, director of research with Human Life International (HLI), tells OneNewsNow the statement simply fits with abortion proponents in the U.S. who want a future in which obstetrician-gynecologists cannot refuse to perform abortions, suggesting their religious concerns are nothing more than pure emotion. He says that also fits the philosophy of the Obama administration…

Indeed, it does. Nothing so rankles the pro-abortion movement than the fact that most doctors won’t perform an elective abortion. This is, quite simply, because most doctors know full well that an unborn child is a living human being. All that being a doctor is about revolts against the notion of performing an elective abortion. Only the most low-grade holders of a medical degree do such nauseating things – and they are getting fewer and harder to find…abortion is coming to an end for lack of practitioners. And so the Culture of Death wants to make it mandatory that you be a killer if you wish to be a doctor.

Thus the result of telling a lie – in this case, the lie that there is a right to an abortion. No right can ever be dependent upon the action of another human being. We are endowed as individuals with our rights – we have no right to command others to do for us. But, we allowed the pro-abortion movement to spread the lie that a woman has right to an abortion – and it is but a step from that to say that a woman then has a right to both have her abortion paid for, and the right to force a doctor to perform it.

We have been too weak and too cowardly – we must boldly state the truth of the matter. Even if abortion is to remain legal for a time, it must be made clear that you don’t have a right to one and that if you wish to engage in that horrific, anti-human practice, you’re on your own. Obama and his Democrats are pressing the issue (I’ve heard that in the Lame Duck session they’ll once again try to force through taxpayer funded abortions) – the Culture of Death paid a lot of money to help Obama in to office, and they want their pound of flesh…human flesh, to be consumed for the profit of twisted people.

No time for a truce in social issues, as some have called for – if we let these things slide, then ever new horrors will be visited upon us, leading to our utter moral degradation. Now and every day, we must fight against this.

HAT TIP: The American Catholic.

Amazing:

Pat Boone throws a red, white and blue bash, which was attended by about 200 people angry, in a Libertarian way, about taxes, government spending and a political process seen as broken and bankrupt.

“I am an American,” Pat Boone belted out the other day to an adoring crowd. “Born to be a rootin’, tootin’, flag-waving citizen.”…

The message is spreading – and people are very much fed up with things as they are. November 2nd will astound.

There have been rumors of manipulation of the stock markets for months now. As the economic news has worsened, people have watch in stunned amazement as the stock market has rallied. This market has rallied while “insiders” (corporate bosses who are in the know) are massively selling stocks and while capital has net flowed out of the markets for weeks on end. Today, the market was up, again, in spite of a raft of bad news (noted earlier here). Over at Zero Hedge, a possible reason for this:

…the Fed has continued to monetize Wall Street’s debts EVERY options expiration week since QE 1 ended… proving beyond a doubt that the Fed’s QE program did NOT actually end in March…

…last week Ben Bernanke pumped an additional $11.05 BILLION into the system ON TOP of the $11.15 pumped via the POMOs (the major banks who control sales of Treasuries – ed. note). In plain terms, the Fed juiced the system by $20+ billion in a single week, bringing its liquidity pumps RIGHT BACK QE 1 LEVELS.

If you want to know why stocks have rallied in the last month, this is THE reason. The economy isn’t improving and the European Crisis isn’t over. Nothing has improved. All that has happened is the Fed funneled money into the Primary Dealers who ramped the market…

The linked article has a chart which tends to confirm this assertion – that the Fed has found a means of pumping massive amounts of money in to the stock markets, thus keeping prices high and rising in spite of economic news which should have the markets in the tank. Why are they doing this? Likely because the whole purpose of TARP and “stimulus” has been to keep the largest financial institutions from going under.

There are two motivations for that action – primarily it is because Bernanke, et al are part of our failed financial system and simply won’t allow their friends to go under. Secondarily, it is because the economic theories believed in government and high finance hold that a financial crash followed by bankruptcy is the worst thing which can happen. In their understanding, that is what caused the Great Depression – that it was actually caused by a fall off in demand resultant upon the destruction of life and wealth in WWI and the “Spanish ‘flu” of 1919 entirely escapes them. In Bernanke’s mind, he’s saving us from disaster (and, as an aside, he’s doing what he can to protect the Democrats…a Dow at 5,000 wouldn’t help matters on November 2nd…and only the Democrats stand between the Banksters and complete disaster, for the Banksters).

We cannot be sure that this is happening, but the circumstantial evidence indicates that it is, indeed, the case. Our best means of finding the full truth is to audit the Fed, as some have been calling for. My preferred ultimate outcome is to abolish the Federal Reserve, entirely and leave our financial and monetary policy entirely in the hands of elected officials, who are at least vulnerable to popular discontent. Leaving it in the hands of un-elected bankers who meet in secret has proven a disaster, and is un-American, in to the bargain.

And, indeed, to the whole of the United States Congress – from the Orlando Sentinel:

In an attack ad labeling his opponent ” Taliban Dan” Webster, U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson uses Webster’s own words to prove the Republican thinks wives should be subservient to their husbands.

One problem: The Grayson campaign edited the original video, chopping it up and taking Webster’s words out of context. Webster actually was advising husbands to bypass those particular Bible passages, according a longer video clip released Monday by Webster’s campaign…

…(Webster’s) wife, Sandy, said his words were taken out of context…”Alan Grayson is a disgrace to this district.”

I won’t link to the Grayson ad because it is nauseating in its falsehood – quite honestly, he deserves to be expelled from the House, or at least censured. That won’t happen, of course, because the Democrat leadership doesn’t care how disgusting the lie is; their only concern is whether or not it will work. If Grayson manages to get re-elected, then Democrats will be fine with whatever he does.

But there is a matter of honor – and this isn’t just an over-eager mistake; this is the deliberate falsification of what a person said in order to slander him in public. It is a lie, more over, designed to provoke hatred and division.

The Democrat party will stand in disgrace just as long as Grayson is a member – and especially an elected member.

They want a big rally for DC – and to help ensure the grounds aren’t empty, they are giving away tens of thousands of free rides…kinda says it all about liberalism, doesn’t it? From Big Government:

On October 2nd, the NAACP and national labor unions will give tens of thousands of people free bus rides, free lunches, free T-shirts and free Metro farecards as inducements to attend the One Nation Working Together rally being organized by a coalition of radical leftist organizations at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has promised to give free bus rides from major metropolitan areas within twelve hours of D.C. The United Steelworkers are also busing in demonstrators from across the Northeast. Even the Screen Actors Guild is ‘getting on the bus.’

Local NAACP chapters on the East coast are also offering free buses, as are the Communication Workers of America.

Rally co-sponsor the AFL-CIO states, “Unions are sponsoring some 1,400 buses from around the country to come to the march.”

At an average of an estimated 50 passengers per bus, that comes to about 70,000 attendees getting free rides to the rally.

They are doing this because they have to – unless you do it for a liberal, most times he won’t do it. Don’t you realize how hard it is to get a bus ticket and plan a trip all one your lonesome? There is not among the left that spirit of volunteerism there is among the right. Partially this is because of liberal servility – they always wait for orders and couldn’t imagine deciding to do something on their own – while another part of it stems from simple lack of enthusiasm.

This rally will, of course, be massively covered by the MSM and the crowd estimates will run towards 500,000, at least. But it won’t really be anything. No event which takes this much organizational prep work is other than a propaganda ploy. They’ll get their positive news cycle, and that will be the end of it.

Lots of economic news – all bad:

People are unhappy:

Mounting gloom over the outlook for jobs and wages caused American consumers to lose confidence in September, indicating spending will take time to recover…

Because they’re broke:

U.S. median household income fell 3 percent in 2009 to $50,221, the second straight annual drop, the Census Bureau said…

And their home values are dropping:

…Ten of the 20 cities in the index showed a year-over-year increase, led by an 11 percent gain in San Francisco. That left 10 cities showing a decrease, up from five in June, led by a 4.9 percent drop in Detroit…

While gloomy CEOs surely aren’t helping matters:

Chief executive officers in the U.S. turned less optimistic in the third quarter as fewer projected sales and hiring will improve, a survey showed…

Meanwhile, people are hiding ever more of their money in gold:

Gold prices continued to push higher Tuesday, reaching another record high, amid ongoing concerns about the economy…

Which, along with our absurd debt, is causing the dollar to drop:

The dollar traded at almost a five- month low against the euro after U.S. home prices rose at a slower pace in July, fueling speculation the Federal Reserve will ease monetary policy…

And that last bit about the Fed getting ready to print bags of money for the Banksters is, naturally, getting the stock market to rally – proving that no one put pure, unadulterated idiots remain in stocks.

So much for the “Recovery Summer” now – now it is the Fall of the Recovery, and Depression heads towards us like an oncoming train.

From an ABC affiliate:

Former President Jimmy Carter has been taken to the hospital after landing at Cleveland Hopkins Airport Tuesday morning.

NewsChannel5 crews at MetroHealth Medical Center said an ambulance arrived with Secret Service crews and an Ohio State Highway Patrol cruiser following it. People in the emergency room at the hospital told our crew they were kicked out because they were told “President Carter is coming.”…

Our prayers for President Carter’s health and swift recovery from whatever ails him.

Goodness, its like they have a death wish – from Indystar:

Turned down by union workers Monday, Illinois businessman Justin Norman won’t come back with a sweeter bid to buy GM’s huge Indianapolis metal plant.

“We are withdrawing from pursuing the plant any further,” JD Norman Industries announced after autoworkers voted 457-96 against a concession contract that would have cleared the way for Norman to buy the plant and cut wages by nearly half.

Although the vote marks a victory for defiant leaders of United Auto Workers Local 23 trying to resist wage cuts, it brings a quick end to attempts to spare the old riverside landmark from a shutdown that will widen the hole in the city’s industrial tax base…

Rather than take a pay cut to keep everyone working, the union decided to commit economic suicide. And not just for themselves but for their families and their local community. We’re in a deep recession and things simply cannot be as they were – the overly-generous pay and benefits packages built up by unions and complacent management over the past few decades simply cannot stand while unemployment is officially nearly 10%, and more realistically is closer to 20%.

The offer they rejected was for a base pay of $15.50 per hour, plus a bonus over the next two years of up to $35,000.00. You bring that opportunity here to Las Vegas, and you’d have 10,000 people lining up to apply. But, not good enough for the unions – rather kill the entire goose, if it can only lay silver eggs rather than golden.

A lot of people say that the decline of unions has been the cause of the decline of the middle class – not so: more accurately it has been unions which have made it progressively impossible to have a large, industrial base…not just in the absurd union contracts, but in union support for liberal Democrats who enact policies which make inhuman dictatorships like China’s appear business friendly.

We do need unions, but not the unions we have today – I hope that eventually the union workers will wake and realize that they’re being sold down the river. New unions with leadership geared towards the needs of the workers would be a boon to the United States – the current crop is part of the problem, and they must go.

HAT TIP: Mish’s

Via Powerline from Breitbart:

A small-town mayor and an aide were found stoned to death Monday in a drug-plagued western state, the fifth city leader to be slain in Mexico since mid-August.

Michoacan state Attorney General Jesus Montejano said the bodies of Tancitaro Mayor Gustavo Sanchez and city adviser Rafael Equihua were discovered in a pickup truck abandoned on a dirt road near the city of Uruapan.

Montejano’s spokesman, Jonathan Arredondo, said initially that the victims were hacked to death with a machete, but the attorney general said they were killed with stones…

Poor Mexico! I really don’t see how they get out of this – I don’t think the government has the authority or the power to really clamp down. Our problem is that the drug cartels control the border because we have abdicated our authority along the border.

It is going to get very grim, I think, for Mexico over the next couple years.