The Unwanted

Week Twenty: The halfway point of a pregnancy, I am 17 cm long, I am moving around, I can hear and recognize my mommy’s voice; my heart can even be heard from a stethoscope. 
Week Thirty Eight: I am considered full term. I am ready to meet my mommy. I am breathing on my own and I am seven and a half pounds of innocence.
Not many people are aware of this, but according to The Guttmacher Institute, 1.2 MILLION of babies around the world, so far along in their growth and development, so full of life in this home the mother has for them, get aborted. 1.2 million deaths are a huge amount, and to think, is that even humane? We put people away for murder for one person, but the deaths of 1.2 million innocent babies is legal in all 50 states no matter what time in the trimester. Is the baby causing you heartburn? Is the baby waking you up at night? Is it just not a good time to put any care for something other than yourself? Oh, let’s just get rid of it then, no big deal. The disgust I feel towards this is an immense amount, because these children are already attached to their mother, without even knowing who she is. They are full of life, they did not choose to come into this world, and to be allowed to get rid of a fully developed child right before giving birth and it being legal is not humane under any circumstance. Many people who are pro legal abortionists say that “personhood begins at birth, not conception” and that abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, not a baby. If a tiny human being, moving around, hiccuping, has each and every body part and organ that a "born" bay does, and is not considered life, then I don’t know what is. The reason this should not be legal is because if you do not want a child, you should learn to use contraceptives to avoid unwanted pregnancies, let alone this late in one's trimester. One should already have made the commitment to carry this child until birth if one is still pregnant. I do not believe in abortions at all, unless it is the case of rape, or incest, and if that is the case, then to perform the abortion as early as possible so the child doesn't develop more. There is always the alternative where the mother is willing to go through with the pregnancy and allow that child a great life with wonderful adoptive parents, and if so, that’s amazing.
A main concern in making abortion illegal is the increase in unsafe “black-alley” abortions that cause many maternal deaths each year in countries that don’t have access to professionally-performed abortions. This is a big concern, because if you don’t have access to safe abortion clinics, people are going to seek them elsewhere, but again comes the idea of contraceptives and why people are not using them if they did not want this pregnancy to begin with. It’s hard to understand how these people who have no health reason for aborting, have the heart to go through with such a thing when they feel the kicks of their child and movements daily, know the sex of their child, have images of what the child looks like and still have no heart for a change in mind. Something many of us believe is if abortion, mainly late term abortion was made illegal, I don’t believe there would be an increase any different than now due to legal providers performing unsafe abortions either way. There are different countries that have pro-life policies and also good health outcomes. I would hope that if this situation came to these measures, where abortion is illegal, that they would seek help elsewhere since there are many places that offer assistance to pregnant women, instead of risking their own life which is obviously a pretty unintelligent decision I would say.
Abortion is and will continue to be a huge controversial topic no matter what; I just hope that America realizes how bad it has become. In Germany, they have a museum of body parts of people killed during the holocaust, as well as other things during that time on display; what if America had abortion utensils, as well as tiny children who were aborted on display? Is that what it would take for people to realize that this is murder? I guess we will never know. Click here

Boehner please leave the office

                It is a clear picture even a blind man can see; that John Boehner on 113^th Congress being least productive ever. House Speaker John Boehner dismissed the idea that this congress is the least productive in history. Boehner said if anyone’s to blame for congressional inaction, it’s the Senate. With all due respect Mr. Boehner get the fuck about off office. Nobody got time for kids to play the “he did it, she did it” game. We need somebody in control. We need someone to take charge. The government was shut down for god sake; all because the congress could not make up their mind on how to spend the money they don’t have, in the process the lost millions of dollars they could have made. You let go of millions of workers, which in some families’ case could be the deference between a hungry stomach and a full stomach. Instead of cutting those people’s wages you should have cut the income of the congress people so that might lead you to get things done faster. So stop pointing fingers towards the senate and fix the inter problem with in the congress before you lead this country to ruins. The 2014 calendar for the House shows members will work 113 days, down from 126 days in 2013, my question is why? Why are we still electing this people they should be working 365 days a year they are running a country not a 5^th grade talent show. Thank you very much 

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Monday, November 4, 2013

A nation's mistake

I feel that the new cuts on foods stamps made by the government is a complete mistake. The amount of money taken away from each family or individual varies, but no matter the amount, the cut is still to much. “For a family of four receiving the maximum amount, monthly benefits will fall to $632 from $668, or a decline of $36.…” This might not seem like a big deal but to a family of four depending on this money that can mean that they will have one or two less meals than they would’ve before. I don’t understand what taking away this money from the people is going to help. The government is taking away from the lowest income where they are dependent on this money to not only feed themselves but their families. How can a country claim to be the best country in the world when they are taking away money from the poorest of the poor. Another thing that goes along with this cut is that the emergency unemployment compensation that is offered to certain states with a high enough unemployment rate will also be ending on January first of 2014. I feel that even though the government made these cuts for an economic improvement, in the long run they will have made nothing but a negative impact on the country. Just imagine the people who have lost their jobs to the recession or for the time being are dependent on the money being provided to them. This money can help them pay for whatever they need from clothing their children to making a payment on their rent. Over all I feel that the government should have put more thought into how this is going to effect the country. I am sure that there are less important things that can manage with a couple less million dollars that won’t hurt millions of people the way this cut is going to.

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Didn't your mother teach you eavesdropping is not polite?

                I fear we are going to war alone and broke. What are we doing spying on our own ally’s? Unhealthy obsession with public safety has lead this nation to paranoia, which will leave as with no ally’s; unless we stop spying on our friends. We should work on a mutual trust and leave the other countries be. That will make us the greatest country once again.
                The NSA collected 70.3 million pieces of French telephone data in the span of a month. The questing is why? Instead of listening to some old lead ordering a pizza; the government could have used the money NSA is spending to listen to an old French lady ordering on what she is going to eat for dinner. It is not just about the money it also about something much more powerful and hard to come by; a powerful ally. If you show a friend that you don’t trust them they start to not trust you as well, which will cause you and your friend to drift apart. Finally they will walk away singing “we are never, ever getting back together”. The same situation goes for spying on Brazil, and Germany.
                The United State is currently $17,116,590,825,120.15 in debt right now. The estimated population of the United States is 316,981,640, so each citizen’s share of this debt is $53,998.68. The National Debt has continued to increase and average of $2.63 billion per day, and yet we spend billions on spying on countries that are irrelevant. Congress stop the spying and pay your bills. If there was a war to break out; we would not have any money to fund our military operations and we would not have any ally’s to relay on. So stop the spying and keep the NSA under control.
 

France, Germany And Brazil Have Surveillance Agencies Too

President Francois Hollande summoned the U.S. ambassador Charles Rivkin to explain the United states’ actions. France’s Minister of the Interior Manuel Valls has already called the fact that the NSA, according to Le Monde newspaper, collected 70.3 million pieces of French telephone data in the span of a month “shocking.”

France is the latest U.S. ally to show its displeasure with the NSA’s tactics, joining others such as Germany and Brazil. What these official condemnations fail to mention, however, is the fact that each of these countries are currently engaging in their own rounds of espionage – both abroad and at home.

France was called out for collecting the same sort of data that the U.S. has been, but against its own citizens. France’s General Directorate for External Security (DGSE), according to the report, works to gather nearly all data transmissions that come in and out of France.

Germany also made clear its rage at being the target of NSA spying. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was reported in June to be preparing to confront President Obama over the issue. Embarrassingly enough for Merkel, German Federal Intelligence Service, aka Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) also benefited from the NSA’s data. “NSA’s also has held several multilateral technical meetings] with BND…to improve the [Federal office for the Protection of the Constitution]’s ability to exploit, filter, and process domestic data accesses and potentially develop larger collection access points that could benefit both Germany and the U.S.”
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff is furious with the National Security Agency’s actions, after reports that her own emails were being read. As a result, the Brazilian government is considering proposals that would require foreign businesses to keep their servers in Brazil if they want to operate within the country.

The Hayes Brown is trying to reach the people of the United States that have a negative opinion about the NSA’s actions. His argument is very sound and he backs up what he is talking about with an evidence; but he makes the case simpler than it really is. Of course the foreign countries are going to take steps to be at the same level if another country is spying on them. The thing I don’t understand is why the NSA is spying of our long time ally’s. In my opinion the NSA should stop spying on our friends before war breaks out, and we have no ally’s to fight beside. click here to read more

Fixing Immigration From the Ground Up

The immigration marches and vigils that took place across the country on Saturday, uniting tens of thousands of people in more than 40 states, were a plaintive reminder that immigration reform — remember immigration reform? — is among the many pieces of business that remain unfinished while Congress is in lockdown.

Even though the bill passed the Senate, 68 to 32, in June, then entered the abyss of the Republican-controlled House. Last week, House Democrats offered their version of the Senate bill, but House leadership refusals to allow a vote on any measure that includes possible citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants and their preference for piecemeal measures, dealing largely with enforcement.

As this standoff continues, A Democratic governor in California, Jerry Brown,

 Signed the Trust Act, a law that will make it harder for federal agents to detain and deport unauthorized Californians who are non-criminals or minor offenders and pose no threat. “We’re not using our jails as a holding vat for the immigration service,” Mr. Brown said. That same day he signed a bill to allow qualified undocumented immigrants to become licensed as lawyers.

On Thursday, he signed a bill to allow driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants, which advocates welcomed as a means to safer roads and greater economic opportunity. This followed earlier bills allowing legal permanent residents to work in polling places for elections and granting new labor rights to domestic workers, a largely immigrant work force whose members are often exploited and abused. A measure that awaits his signature would allow legal permanent residents to serve on juries. Together the bills put California far on the leading edge of expanding immigrant rights while finding humane, sensible solutions to a problem Washington refuses to solve.

This author was claiming that people in office have forgotten about Immigration reform, except one person (democratic governor in California, Jerry Brown). The governor have taken steps to insure the security of the Californian residents and those steps have gotten the illegal immigrants close to citizenship. The author has made it very clear that the House leadership does not want to take a chance of giving citizenship to 11 million undocumented immigrants.  The conclusion is valid. “President Obama is on the brink of setting an ugly record — the deportation during his time in office of two million people, of whom only a fraction are dangerous criminals. More than 100,000 people have been deported since the Senate passed its bill in June.” The Obama administration was supposed to deport less people. 

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GOP Pushes Food-Stamp Cuts to the Far Right

Republicans Doubled their demand to $40 billion in SNAP reductions and won in a vote Thursday. Eleanor Clift on the hardliners' move that would drop 3.5 million Americans from the rolls.

One after another, a parade of Democrats went before the microphone, held up a flier with a picture with a picture on it: a grandmother is Arkansas, an unemployed mother in Ohio, a veteran, a cancer survivor, on and on, all faces of the hungry in america. Flustered by the theatrics, Republican Pete Sessions of Texas sought to clarify the GOP's proposed $40 billion cut in food Stamps, or SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, explaining that only able-bodied adults would be removed from the rolls if they're not looking for work.

Democrat Jim McGovern countered that if his Republican colleague had trouble with the waivers that allow governors to exempt people from the work requirements associated with receiving government benefits, "you should talk to your governor." Texas Governor Rick Perry is among those who requested waivers for their states during the economic downturns because there were no jobs, and they weren't going to let people go hungry. Click here to read more.