It is today, the sad anniversary of the Roe abomination – but, also, the glorious anniversary of the rebirth of respect for life:

No one with integrity any longer argues that the child killed through abortion is not a human being. When the abortion occurs through miscarriage we properly enter into the mourning of the mother over the loss of “her baby”. However, when the mother is deceived into a voluntary abortion we use a different vocabulary. Most people now acknowledge that these children killed by abortion are human persons. A few hold on to the dangerous notion that dependency upon others makes someone less of a person. However, medical science has confirmed what our consciences and the Natural Law told us all along, these victims of the first “preemptive war” are human beings just like us. We frame “baby’s first pictures” in their 3D Image through sonogram technology. We use intrauterine surgery to intervene to save them or correct anything which they may need before they are born. We prosecute an offender who, in the evil act of harming their mother, causes their death as well. It is all so very clear what we are really doing in every procured abortion.

The “argument” now used to justify this preemptive war is that the choice to kill them should be left to the mother in consultation with her own Doctor and/or other counselors. This is presented in a language of “freedom” and clothed with a counterfeit compassion. However, there is no moral difference between the killing of a child after birth and the killing of a child before birth. We legally excuse fetal homicide when it is committed by a misguided mother through the agency of a deceived or corrupted Doctor who once pledged to “do no harm”. We call it “healthcare” or a “reproductive” choice.Under our new administration the Government may soon extract tax dollars to pay for it.

It is ironic that this 36th March for Life will take place only days after our nation rightly celebrated a great advance against another intrinsic evil, racism, and the horrid memory of its once institutionalized expression, slavery. The election of our 44th President signals progress against what the Catechism calls a “structure of sin”. However, it is rooted in the same evil idea that some human persons are less worthy of being welcomed within our National family than others. Evil ideas have a horrid way of repackaging themselves.We will mourn, pray and demand justice.

We are not going away – Obama wants us to; heck, in a very real way he even strongly urged us to give up our fight in his inaugural address. But the ground really has not shifted, and the debates of the past are not over – not, at least, until all life is welcomed from conception and protected until natural death. Until then, all the high flown rhetoric we have about freedom and human rights is incomplete and, ultimately, fruitless. Our liberals, in general, also want this debate over – ever solicitous of the political prospects of the conservative movement, liberals advise us that its best if we just give it up and accept the Culture of Death as a settled thing.

Not a chance. While our prospects, for the moment, are bleak and our new President is working hard to expand the Culture of Death, we know that the ultimate victory is to be ours, because we love life and have true hope – and we not only hope, but we pray, that President Obama and all of those hoodwinked into supporting the Culture of Death will come to their senses and realize they have been the merest tools of a diabolical plot against all that is good and true.

The fight for Virginia’s governorship will be the crucial battle in the 2009 election season – with Obama having won the State last November, Democrats are hoping to seal the deal in the Old Dominion by electing another Democrat. Meanwhile, the GOP is hoping to bounce back from the trouncing of 2006/08 by expelling Democrats from the Virginia governorship and giving the GOP momentum heading in to the 2010 mid terms. The money race is telling the tale of how deeply each party is getting invested in Virginia:

Virginia’s candidates for governor raised millions of dollars in the last half of 2008, according to campaign finance reports released Thursday.

State Attorney General Bob McDonnell, the Republican nominee, reported raising $1.6 million between July and December. That figure includes a million dollars collected since the November election. McDonnell’s campaign manager said the GOP candidate has $2 million in the bank.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal both attended fundraisers for McDonnell during that period.

The three Democrats who want their party’s nomination also released their fundraising numbers.

State Senator Creigh Deeds, who represents a district that includes Charlottesville, collected $658,000 during the last half of the year. Deeds now has $891,000 on hand.

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe raised $948,000 since he started raising money back in November. But McAuliffe has spent some of that cash, as he currently reports a bank balance of $718,000.

Brian Moran, who used to represent Alexandria in the House of Delegates, pulled in $755,000 during the last half of the year. Moran is spending more than he’s raising, however, as the Democrat reported $924,000 on hand during the summer.

I hadn’t noted that Governor Jindal had helped with Virginia GOP fundraising – and if that doesn’t signal Presidential ambitions, then nothing does. But, one election at a time. We GOPers need to dig in here and do all we can to support the GOP nominee in Virginia. While our GOPers in Virginia will have to carry the bulk of the load, we can donate our money and, if we live in surrounding States, our time. A lot of politics revolves around image – its sad, but its true…and nothing would better break the image of Democrat invincibility than to take the State Obama took just the year before.

Here is McDonnell’s website – have at it; lets whack the Democrats hard in 2009!

I expect Timothy Geithner to get all or most of the Democrat Party votes, so his confirmation as Treasury secretary is inevitable, as Democrats don’t need a single Republican vote to confirm him… but if any Republican votes for this crook, I’ll be very upset.

Timothy Geithner, President Barack Obama’s pick for Treasury secretary, told lawmakers that “substantial” and “dramatic” action will be needed to resolve the financial crisis but said the Obama administration was still determining how best to tackle the problem.

 

At his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Mr. Geithner also apologized for failing to pay some past employment taxes, saying he made careless but unintentional mistakes and corrected the errors. 

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While his tax problems are unlikely to derail his confirmation, Mr. Geithner faced some uncomfortable questions over why he failed to pay more than $34,000 in Social Security and Medicare taxes over several years while working at the International Monetary Fund.

Sen. Jon Kyl (R., Ariz.) called it “incomprehensible” that Mr. Geithner didn’t realize he needed to pay employment taxes. He also questioned why Mr. Geithner took so long to correct the problem for tax years 2001 and 2002. The payroll-tax errors were discovered during a 2006 Internal Revenue Service audit of Mr. Geithner’s taxes, and he paid what he owed for 2003 and 2004. But Mr. Geithner didn’t pay the Social Security and Medicare tax he owed for 2001 and 2002 until after Mr. Obama indicated in the fall that he planned to nominate him as Treasury secretary.

“I regret having not done that sooner,” Mr. Geithner said. “If I thought about it more, maybe I would have come to it sooner. I did not believe when I settled that audit that I had an obligation to go back. I had not thought about it in the intervening years.”

$34,000 in unpaid taxes is not an “honest mistake.” Anyone who votes to confirm Geithner ought to be ashamed.

Its been 24 hours, so check to see if the ocean level is dropping.

I guess yesterday truly was historic:

U.S. stocks sank, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its worst Inauguration Day decline, as speculation banks must raise more capital sent financial shares to an almost 14-year low.

State Street Corp., the largest money manager for institutions, tumbled 59 percent after unrealized bond losses almost doubled. Wells Fargo & Co. and Bank of America Corp. slumped more than 23 percent on an analyst’s prediction that they’ll need to take steps to shore up their balance sheets. The Dow’s 4 percent slide was the most on an Inauguration Day in the measure’s 112-year history, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and the Stock Trader’s Almanac.

So let’s tink about this…

Stocks plunged after Obama was elected. Stocks plunged on Obama’s inauguration. It is said that tho stock market is forward looking… Obviously they see bad times ahead under Comrade Obama.

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Hard to say that the day after The One was inaugurated? Not at all. We’ve got it all, they’ve got nothing but image.

I did end up having to see a good deal of yesterday’s activities…the management decided to put it up on the office monitors. I plan on filing an OSHA complaint, as I got a sick headache what with all the oozing Obamania. It was a bit surreal to watch – there was Obama; handsome, happy, young and in charge…and all the while it just seemed as if I were watching my dearly beloved mother enter into a slow motion train wreck. Its going to be a long four years, in a lot of ways.

Our liberals will dispute this, but the plain fact of the matter is that Obama’s economic policies are going to increase the debt, increase inflation (though this might be a year or two in the future), increase unemployment, increase interest rates, lower productivity and lower real wages. We don’t guess this will happen. We don’t think this will happen. We know this will happen. How do we know? Because every time the Obama plan has been tried, it has resulted in this…and as Obama appears set to really, really go whole hog into tax and spend liberalism, we can just expect things to be worse than they were in the past. We might all start longing for the relatively prosperous days of Jimmy Carter.

For those of us with faith, this will all be ok – we know that any trials sent our way are blessings from God so that we may better become good and faithful servants. But for those on the other side…well, they’re going to get a rude awakening and they will be both disorientated and angered. So, we’re going to have to carry the ball – helping as best we can to curb the worst excesses of the Obama policies, bucking up the flagging spirits of liberals who will start talking “malaise” and “era of limits”, as they were under Carter, and generally keeping the country up on the rails until we can get Obama and his Democrats booted out of power.

The one thing I do caution us against is Obama Derangement Syndrome (ODS); it is tempting to hammer back exactly as they hammered our guy, but that is ungenerous as well as counter-productive. Remember, for quite a while now Obama will be suffused with an unearthly glow. As his policies cause the country to crater, the MSM and the Obamaniacs will desperately try to spin any good news as the be all and end all of great leadership. When things really fly apart and we’re sitting with a hugely expanded debt, high unemployment and inflation eroding our money day by day, the real fanatics will still insist, in spite of all evidence, that Obama is The One and will pull us out of it. No sense provoking them unnecessarily – a gentle rebuke will do, if anything is needed at all. Our task is to be prepared with alternative policies to map a way out of the liberal morass, ready to go when needed during the 2010 and 2012 campaigns. Hating liberals won’t help us craft these alternate policies, nor help us discover and groom the leaders we’ll need to both win the elections and carry through the policies.

America made a mistake – we elected a well meaning but clueless tax and spend liberal. So be it. The American people made their choice and now we’re all going to have to sit tight and ride it out as best we can. No matter how bad it gets, we’re still Americans and thus capable of enduring anything and emerging triumphant at the end of it. America will correct its mistake, in the by and by – our job is to be prepared for when the American people realize their mistake.

So, have at it with gusto – take no guff from liberals who are going to insist that the debate is over and that no longer is dissent the highest form of patriotism. Don’t worry about the accusations of racism which will be hurled against you – they were going to do that anyway, and you might as well score some points while they’re doing it. Don’t be stampeded by the dark hints of social breakdown if The One were to lose in 2012. And, most of all, don’t take them too seriously – and when they really screw the pooch, don’t laugh at them. Well, ok…go ahead and laugh, but try to hide it when they’re standing right next to you.

This hits hard, but in just the right manner:

Every life has potential is the message of an ad to be aired repeatedly on Black Entertainment Television in Chicago during Tuesday’s coverage of Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration.

The 30-second spot, produced by CatholicVote.org, begins with ultrasound image of an unborn baby.

“This child’s future is a broken home,” the overlying text states, with music playing in the background. “He will be abandoned by his father. His single mother will struggle to raise him.”

“Despite the hardships he will endure,” the text continues, as the music gets louder and is mixed with sounds of a cheering crowd, “this child … will become … the first African American president.”

Then showing a picture of Barack Obama, the text says: “Life: Imagine the potential.”

The ad is the first in a series to be released this year as part of a new educational campaign, titled precisely “Life: Imagine the Potential.”

Brian Burch, executive director of CatholicVote.org, commented on the ad in a press statement: “Our message is simple: Abortion is the enemy of hope. The purpose of our new ad is to spread a message of hope about the potential of every human life, including the life of President-elect Obama.”

“Each human life has dignity and worth,” he added.

“Given the political climate, we acknowledge that the fight to protect human life faces an uphill climb,” continued Burch. “For this reason, we developed an ad that we hope can transcend the political obstacles ahead, and provoke the consciences of our leaders and fellow Americans.”

One does wonder – if abortion had been legal when Obama was in the womb, would he be here today? How many great leaders of various types are among the tens of millions of aborted children? When we come to the judgment seat of God and ask, “why, Lord, did you not send us better men and women to lead us?”, he might well show us the millions he did send, but whom we killed before they had a chance.

We do have a long, hard fight on our hands – but we shall have the victory, in the end, because life is always better than death.

And all I got to show for it is this lousy $1,000,000,000,000.00 “stimulus” bill:

The country is in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, which isn’t stopping rich donors and the government from spending $170 million, or more, on the inauguration of Barack Obama.

The actual swearing-in ceremony will cost $1.24 million, according to Carole Florman, spokeswoman for the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.

It’s the security, parties and countless Porta-a-Potty rentals that really run up the bill.

The federal government estimates that it will spend roughly $49 million on the inaugural weekend. Washington, D.C., Virginia and Maryland have requested another $75 million from the federal government to help pay for their share of police, fire and medical services.

And then there is the party bill.

“We have a budget of roughly $45 million, maybe a little bit more,” said Linda Douglass, spokeswoman for the inaugural committee.

You liberals did catch that “rich donors” bit, didn’t you? Now, of course you are going to believe that these rich donors are just doing it out of love of country and Mr. Hope-N-Change…but we out here in the real world know they are purchasing access…so all those voices of the little guy Obama promised to bring with him into the Oval Office? Going to be drowned out by the same old, same old mega corporations and monied special interests all Democrats have been beholden to since Bill Clinton sold the party to the highest bidder (with new CoS Emanuel organizing the auction back in 1996).

Meanwhile, all that service Obama yammered on about on Monday…well, perhaps Obama can explain to us who was served yesterday.

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