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More AP Bias

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A former state senator pleaded guilty to mail fraud Thursday and admitted accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars from three companies that had an interest in bills before the General Assembly.

This was the header to an AP article just recently that hit the wire. No where in it does it indicate that this guy was a Democrat. You had to go to an old article by the Boston.com.

AP, dropping the ball again when it is their boys that are caught up in corruption.

August 25th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Around the US, Politics, The MSM | no comments

The ACLU Declares Jihad on Abstinence Education

In a direct attack against common sense, the ACLU has waged a relentless war against teaching kids the simple fact that if you don’t have sex, you don’t get pregnant or get STDs. The ACLU applauded a recent decision by the federal government to suspend funding to Silver Ring Thing because it was using the money to evangelize and convert people. While they are very correct that this was a misuse of funds, it is part of a larger campaign to kick abstinence education out of the schools as inherently religious. In fact, a recent study by Rep. Waxman (that has been debunked) cited religion as a primary concern about these programs. The ACLU agrees.

They cite evidence that abstinence education programs do not work. History disproves this as we haven’t had anything close to the rates of single mothers, teenage pregnancies, or STD infections before sex-ed was taught in schools. For centuries, if not millennia, telling people to reserve sex for marriage worked. If they want proof, look back 100 years. Abstinence works every time it’s tried.

The irony is that while suggesting there is proof that abstinence education does not work, Planned Parenthood (through their research arm) has inadvertently shown that sex-ed and easy access to birth control has not slowed unintended pregnancies, reduced abortion, or reduced STD infections. Their recent report says:

“54% of women having abortions used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant. 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users reported using the methods inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users reported correct use.”

Easy access to contraception has INCREASED the rate of infections of AIDS in Africa. Condoms are unable to protect against the single biggest cause of cervical cancer, HPV. Sex-ed in schools is based around teaching children “Hey, its ok, go out, have fun, just use a condom and you’ll be ok.” There is no attempt to deal with the emotional maturity issues regarding sex which leaves children so unprepared that the rate of kids committing suicide increases with sexual activity. They talk about moral programming and how it is ineffective at teaching youth abstinence, but rely on moral programming to teach them to use condoms.

The facts are these: abstinence education works and throwing condoms at kids doesn’t. If you aren’t ready to be a daddy you might want to think about not having sex which is the only effective way to not become one.

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Thanks to OTB, Stop The ACLU, Basil’s Blog

August 25th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | National, Politics, Pro-Life, Religion, StoptheACLU | 3 comments

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August 25th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | DailyIllini | one comment

MSM Refuses to Take Genocide in Darfur Ad

Think Progress has the news that NBC, CBS, and ABC affiliates are refusing to run Be a Witness ads covering the genocide that is going on in Darfur. They haven’t covered any of the news during the year except for token sound-bites because apparently Natalee Holloway takes precedence.

Turns out that for every 100,000 dead in Sudan, the issue gets 1 minute of press. To add insult to injury they won’t let people even pay them to cover it.

August 25th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | International, Sudan, The MSM | one comment

Anti-War Protestors Tormenting Iraq War Wounded

CNSNews has broken the story on anti-war protesters outside Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. This is the facility where those with significant injuries are sent to from the battlefield. They are there holding up signs such as “Maimed for Lies” and “Enlist here and die for Halliburton”. The organization organizing this is Code Pink, the same organization that has funded terrorists with the apparent knowledge of Rep. Waxman.

For the most part the anti-war crowd doesn’t see a problem with this, mostly because it garners attention which is what they are seeking. They think by kicking around a few wounded soldiers that they’ll be able to change people’s minds about the war. They also seem to think that the wounded are oblivious to the debate on the Iraq war and for that matter the rest of the nation. This war has been debated 24×7 since about 14 months before we went in to Iraq. The rush to war included having the Army camp out for months in Kuwait waiting for the order and turning away Iraqis who wanted to surrender.

Everyone knows what the war has cost because the press covers it endlessly. These protesters are looking for more than that, they want some gimmick, some stunt that will convince people because all of their arguments have been rejected or disproved. They need the one mother of a slain soldier in Crawford and conveniently ignore the approximately 1900 other mothers who aren’t protesting and do support the troops. They aren’t covering that the insurgency is over and the remainder of fighting is mostly people from Iran and Syria and the targets are Iraqis.

That brings us to Walter Reed where to point is precisely to irritate people and get press. Should the protest somewhere else? Absolutely and they know it. If the Pentagon has to sneak people into Walter Reed it is because of those protesters trying to dance all over the body in celebration that they have another club to try to go after the President with. In closing, I have to wonder what these people do for a living because I don’t have time to run out to a VA hospital and be kicking around wounded soldiers for fun.

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August 25th, 2005 Posted by John Bambenek | Around the US, Military / War, National, Politics | no comments