As Republicans Lift Voices on Abortion, Sotomayor Gets Quiet
On the abortion front, I'm struck by two dynamics at work in Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. One: Republicans are attacking the idea of a constitutional right to abortion with a unity and forthrightness not seen in years, grilling Sotomayor on how the Constitution could be construed to contain such a right.
[See photos of Sotomayor's hearings.]
Two: As Republicans lift their voices on the issue, Sotomayor is evading all questions about her personal views on abortion. While recognizing that she considers Roe v. Wade to be settled law, Sotomayor has gone out of her way to obscure her personal position, disavowing signs that abortion rights supporters and opponents have taken as evidence of her pro-abortion rights views.
When Texas Sen. John Cornyn asked Sotomayor about reports that the Obama White House sought reassurances that she supported abortion rights, she said the news media got it wrong: "I was asked no question by anyone, including the president, about my views on any specific legal issue."
Following the lead of opponents of abortion rights, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham latched onto Sotomayor's 12-year stint on the board of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund to suggest that Sotomayor is a staunch abortion rights supporter. After all, the group filed a slew of briefs supporting abortion rights during Sotomayor's tenure. But the judge wouldn't bite. "I never reviewed those briefs," she said.
And when Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn posed her some hypothetical abortion cases, Sotomayor demurred. "I can't answer . . . because I can't look at it in the abstract. . . . I probably couldn't opine because I'm sure that situation might well arise before the court," she said.
Yes, this kind of evasion has become standard for Supreme Court nominees of both parties. But it raises serious questions about how Sotomayor would rule on abortion-related cases.
Sotomayor is not going to vote to overturn Roe. But her obfuscating on other abortion-related questions raises questions about how she'd rule on restrictions on late-term abortions and on consent laws. And those are the kind of cases—as opposed to direct challenges to Roe—that would be more likely to come before her on the Supreme Court.
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Prophecy Being Fulfilled !
DAVID LETTERMAN'S HATE, ETC. !
David Letterman's hate is as old as some ancient Hebrew prophets.
Speaking of anti-Semitism, it's Jerry Falwell and other fundy leaders who've gleefully predicted that in the future EVERY nation will be against Israel (an international first?) and that TWO-THIRDS of all Jews will be killed, right?
Wrong! It's the ancient Hebrew prophet Zechariah who predicted all this in the 13th and 14th chapters of his book! The last prophet, Malachi, explains the reason for this future Holocaust that'll outdo even Hitler's by stating that "Judah hath dealt treacherously" and "the Lord will cut off the man that doeth this" and asks "Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother?"
Haven't evangelicals generally been the best friends of Israel and persons perceived to be Jewish? Then please explain the recent filthy, hate-filled, back-stabbing tirades by David Letterman (and Sandra Bernhard and Kathy Griffin) against a leading evangelical named Sarah Palin, and explain why most Jewish leaders have seemingly condoned Palin's continuing "crucifixion"!
While David, Sandra, and Kathy are tragically turning comedy into tragedy, they are also helping to speed up and fulfill the Final Holocaust a la Zechariah and Malachi, thus helping to make the Bible even more believable!
(For even more stunning information, visit MSN, Google etc. and type in "Separation of Raunch and State," "Michael the Narc-Angel," "Bible Verses Obama Avoids," and "Hate Bill Favoritism.")
INNOCENT BLOOD
In ancient Babylon the priest sacrificed babies to their god baal, in America 50 million babies have been sacrificed to the god of self.
Obama wants to support abortion with taxpayer money.
Deuteronomy 19:8-10 8 If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your forefathers, and gives you the whole land he promised them, 9 because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today—to love the LORD your God and to walk always in his ways—then you are to set aside three more cities. 10 Do this so that INNOCENT BLOOD WILL NOT BE SHED IN YOUR LAND, which the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed. Leviticus 26:14-20 14 ” ‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you
sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; THOSE WHO HATE YOU WILL RULE OVER YOU, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you. 18 ” ‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” - Barack Hussein Obama - Audacity of Hope
“The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger, and strive with might and main for mischief through the land is: execution, or crucifixion, or the cutting off of hands and feet from opposite sides, or exile from the land: that is their disgrace in this world, and a heavy punishment is theirs in the Hereafter…” (Qur’an 5:33).
“Allah’s Apostle said: ‘I have been ordered (by Allah) to fight against the people until they testify that none has the right to be worshipped but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s Apostle, and offer the prayers perfectly and give the obligatory charity, so if they perform at that, then they save their lives and property from me except for Islamic laws and then their reckoning (accounts) will be done by Allah’” (Bukhari Volume 1, Book 2, Number 24).
“War is deceit” (Bukhari Volume 4, Book 52, Number 268).
“Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him” (Bukhari Volume 9, Book 84, Number 57).
Or how about Mohammed's raping of his nine-year-old "wife" and justifying it by saying Allah ordained it:
"My mother came to me while I was being swung on a swing between two branches and got me down. My nurse took over and wiped my face with some water and started leading me. When I was at the door she stopped so I could catch my breath. I was brought in while Muhammad was sitting on a bed in our house. My mother made me sit on his lap. The other men and women got up and left. The Prophet consummated his marriage with me in my house when I was nine years old" (Tabari 9:131).
"Allah’s Apostle told Aisha [his six-year-old bride and nine-year-old sexual "partner"], ‘You were shown to me twice in my dreams. I beheld a man or angel carrying you in a silken cloth. He said to me, "She is yours, so uncover her." And behold, it was you. I would then say to myself, "If this is from Allah, then it must happen"’" (Bukhari Volume 9, Book 87, Number 139-140).
“ America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Abraham Lincoln.
In ancient Babylon the priest sacrificed babies to their god baal, in America 50 million babies have been sacrificed to the god of self.
Obama wants to support abortion with taxpayer money.
On January 22nd 1973 The high jacked U.S Supreme Court legalized unrestricted abortions since that time over 50 million babies have been murdered, How can this be a Christian Nation, how can you follow the commands of God Almighty and allow this to continue? It is difficult for many people to accept the truth that several of our nations top leaders have been members of the occultic Bohemian Grove. George W. Bush is also a member of this occult organization. Since 1873, the Global Elite Has Held Secret Meetings in the Ancient Redwood Forest of Northern California. Members of the so-called “Bohemian Club” Include Former Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Reagan. The Bush Family Maintains a Strong Involvement. Each Year at Bohemian Grove, Members of This All-Male “Club” Don Red, Black and Silver Robes and Conduct an Occult Ritual Wherein They Worship a Giant Stone Owl, Sacrificing a Human Being in Effigy to What They Call the “Great Owl of Bohemia.”
Deuteronomy 19:8-10 8 If the LORD your God enlarges your territory, as he promised on oath to your forefathers, and gives you the whole land he promised them, 9 because you carefully follow all these laws I command you today—to love the LORD your God and to walk always in his ways—then you are to set aside three more cities. 10 Do this so that INNOCENT BLOOD WILL NOT BE SHED IN YOUR LAND, which the LORD your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed. Leviticus 26:14-20 14 ” ‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands, 15 and if you reject my decrees and abhor my laws and fail to carry out all my commands and so violate my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will bring upon you
sudden terror, wasting diseases and fever that will destroy your sight and drain away your life. You will plant seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it. 17 I will set my face against you so that you will be defeated by your enemies; THOSE WHO HATE YOU WILL RULE OVER YOU, and you will flee even when no one is pursuing you. 18 ” ‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over. 19 I will break down your stubborn pride and make the sky above you like iron and the ground beneath you like bronze. 20 Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” - Barack Hussein Obama
Carl Marx, once wrote that, the goal of the Communists was to quote,. “enter into men’s minds and cast God down from his throne.”
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”- George Washington , General, Commander in Chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution and first President of the United States of America. Political Correctness a term first seen in Mao’s Little Red Book, a communist engendered abomination that is instituting censorship little by little.
THE COMMUNIST HAMMER AND SICKLE OF THE WHOLE EARTH The sins of Israel will be forgiven at the time of Jesus’ return. This destruction of Babylon foretold in Jeremiah, chapters 50, and 51 is the destruction of end time Babylon , the Mystery Babylon of Revelation 17, and 18. Verses in this chapter 50 refer to the hammer and sickle of this prophetic Mystery Babylon . The prophet Jeremiah is talking to prophetic Babylon , in verse 16, of Jeremiah 50 where it says; Jer. 50:16: Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the SICKLE in the time of harvest: Then verse 23, the prophet still speaking against Babylon , says; Jer. 50:23: How is the HAMMER of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! In Jeremiah 50, which prophecies of the destruction of end time Babylon, as does Revelation 17, and 18 the two major symbols which identify end time Babylon are given as the “HAMMER AND THE SICKLE.” Babylon is here called, the” HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH,” and her activities are called, in verse 16, the handling of the SICKLE. In Revelation 17, and 18 Mystery Babylon is said to be clothed in scarlet or red, the beast upon which she rides, is red, the official color of Communism is red, they call themselves the Reds, and their Communist flag is a red flag, with a hammer and a sickle upon it. In all the descriptions of Mystery Babylon, this end time world power, it is the Christians, the Saints of God, who are the victims of this power, and the ones against who it makes war. In Luke 21:12, Jesus spoke of these last days, and the anti-Christ Communist warfare, to be waged against Christians. God says of Himself: Deuteronomy 32:40-42 40 I lift my hand to heaven and declare: As surely as I live forever, 41 when I sharpen my flashing sword and my hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on my adversaries and repay those who hate me. 42 I will make my arrows drunk with blood, while my sword devours flesh: the blood of the slain and the captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.” Deuteronomy 32: 43 Rejoice, O nations, with his people, [ f ] , [ g ] for he will avenge the blood of his servants; he will take vengeance on his enemies and make atonement for his land and people.
MYSTERY BABYLON WILL BE DESTROYED BY VIOLENCE
Revelation 18:20-21 20Rejoice over her, O heaven! Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets! God has judged her for the way she treated you.’ ” 21Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.
Luke 22:35-38 35
Then Jesus asked them,
“When I sent you without purse, bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered. 36 He said to them, “But now if you have a purse, take it, and also a bag; and if you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one. 37 It is written: ‘And he was numbered with the transgressors’ [ b ] ; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.” 38 The disciples said, “See, Lord, here are two swords.” “That is enough,” he replied.
Armageddon also means the "valley of slaughter." It comes from a Hebrew word pronounced, "HAR-MEGA-DON." In the James Moffatt version of the Bible, this word "Harmeggadon" is used, in place of Armageddon. "Harmeggadon" means at the place of the regathered from the nations.
America is the place that makes up that nation. This nation consists of the regathered white-Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, and kindred peoples. God brought these Christian Anglo-Saxons here from the nations, where they were put away and punished. They were brought here to "Harmeggadon" or the place of the regathering. America is the Harmeggadon of Bible Prophecy.
The armies now gathering under the United Nations of Red-Babylon, are coming to America in the near future. God is bringing these nations here. These armies will fight against God, and his Christ. When these kings, and their armies of the earth are gathered, they will encompass us, they will surround us.
Armageddon also means the "valley of slaughter." It comes from a Hebrew word pronounced, "HAR-MEGA-DON." In the James Moffatt version of the Bible, this word "Harmeggadon" is used, in place of Armageddon. "Harmeggadon" means at the place of the regathered from the nations.
America is the place that makes up that nation. This nation consists of the regathered white-Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, and kindred peoples. God brought these Christian Anglo-Saxons here from the nations, where they were put away and punished. They were brought here to "Harmeggadon" or the place of the regathering. America is the Harmeggadon of Bible Prophecy.
The armies now gathering under the United Nations of Red-Babylon, are coming to America in the near future. God is bringing these nations here. These armies will fight against God, and his Christ. When these kings, and their armies of the earth are gathered, they will encompass us, they will surround us.
MYSTERY BABYLON WILL BE DESTROYED BY VIOLENCE
Revelation 18:20-21 20Rejoice over her, O heaven! Rejoice, saints and apostles and prophets! God has judged her for the way she treated you.’ ” 21Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a large millstone and threw it into the sea, and said: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be thrown down, never to be found again.
Seek the Truth:
Seek the Truth.
Verify peoples comments and opinions by seeking the Truth.
If someone spreads gossip, slander, opinions, and insults others (mud slinging) then they are most likely trying to firm up unstable ground.
Build your house on a rock (stable ground) and not on sand.
Seek the Truth.
The Truth will set you Free!
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