The Middle Ground Is Where Gun Reform Is

It seems to me that the main point that is argued against imposing background checks when purchasing guns is the concern that the government will use the individuals information against them some how. There seems to be a mistrust of our government. I am not going to say there is no reason to mistrust nor am I going to say there is a reason to trust our government. That is not the issue here. So here’s my proposal. Appropriate federal funds to finance the NRA and let the NRA build and maintain the database with the information that is submitted for background checks. Let the NRA have access to information that flags felons, those on the terrorist watch list, those on the no fly list, those convicted of domestic  violence etc.

Problem Solved.

 

Vice President Biden Attends the Pope’s Inauguration

I wonder, does Vice President Biden attend similar ceremonies when other religious leaders are placed or elected as heads of their church? Does he acknowledge them? Is he even aware of any such events? I refer of course to any other religions that have such events. It is events like this that makes wonder how anyone can say we aren’t a Christian nation. Yes I am aware of the fact that Joe Biden is a Catholic, he was not attending as a Catholic, he was attending as the Vice President of the United States. Why do I have a problem with this? Because in him doing so he is stating that the United States supports the Catholic Church, and even more disturbing he is presenting our country as an ally to the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is not an institution the United States should associate with let alone endorse. The have been charged with Crimes Against Humanity by the Italian President. They should have been tried and convicted centuries ago when they ‘exterminated’ the first Jew in the 3rd century. They should have been tried and convicted every time they exterminated another Jew in any of the several hundred years after that, and when the began the Crusades in the 12th century and again in the 13th and 14th century. They should have been tried and convicted when the slaughter countless numbers of Native Americans in the 14th and 15 and 16th and 17th centuries and then when they endorsed, blessed and publicly supported Hitler’s mass exterminations of millions of Jews and millions of non Jews. They should be brought up on charges when the first report of a child being molested was filed and then for every one of the thousands of children who have been brave enough to speak up after being molested ever since. How can our Vice President and our government smile in the face of the head of the Catholic Church? The history of the Catholic Church speaks volumes, one cannot say that was the Church of the past and that the current Pope shouldn’t be held responsible for the acts of former Popes. Why not? The Church has never been put on trial for any of its past crimes. The Church doesn’t take responsibility for any of the past atrocities. The world knows in detail the crimes committed and nothing is done. Supporting this new Pope is inexcusable and unacceptable.

I have to throw this point in here. Joe Biden, the author of the Violence Against Women Act, should be ashamed to support an institution that openly oppresses women and that throughout history has tortured, burned and degraded women with no apologies for it.

Links To Jack

The links here are to approved web sites for all things Jack. There is tons more stuff out there, lots of visuals on YouTube but these links are from Jack to Jack.

Jack’s record studio and record label is Third Man Records. Some of the artists on this label are Jack’s bands The White Stripes; The Dead Weather; The Raconteurs and of course Jack’s solo stuff is here also. There are some pleasant surprises in the list of artists like Carl Sagan, yes that Carl Sagan, Tom Jones, yes that Tom Jones, Wanda Jackson, Loretta Lynn, yes that Loretta Lynn, Conan O’Brien, yes that Conan O’Brien, and Stephen Colbert, yes that Stephen Colbert.

Here is also the best resource for information on Tour Dates, scheduled interviews and tv appearances for Jack. If you get on the email list you’ll get up to date on magazine articles about or with Jack.

Third Man Records

http://thirdmanrecords.com/artists/

also this link is to my You Tube playlists. I have lots of Jack, Jack and more Jack. (I also have lots of video about Los Alamos; J. Robert Oppenheimer; The Manhattan Project; the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and tons of footage on Hydrogen Bomb tests all over the world.)

http://www.youtube.com/view_all_playlists

ACLU Profiles Joe Arpaio’s Officers As A Racial Profilers

The ACLU charges of Racial Profiling against Sheriff Joe Arpaio are discriminatory profiling in it’s own right against the  Sheriff’s department. They made this statement in regards to Arizona’ “show me your papers” law signed by Gov Brewer;

“The new law, which will not go into effect for more than 90 days, requires police agencies across Arizona to investigate the immigration status of every person they come across whom they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe is in the country unlawfully. To avoid arrest, citizens and immigrants will effectively have to carry their “papers” at all times. The law also makes it a state crime for immigrants to willfully fail to register with the Department of Homeland Security and carry registration documents. It further curtails the free speech rights of day laborers and encourages unchecked information sharing between government agencies.

“Forcing local police to demand people’s papers and arrest those who can’t immediately prove their status will do nothing to make us safer,” said Dan Pochoda, Legal Director of the ACLU of Arizona. “What it will do is divert scarce police resources to address false threats and force officers to prioritize immigration enforcement over all other public safety responsibilities”.

I will address rather lengthy views I have on this issue of immigration laws in the very near future. But for now I have a short but to the point question.

By saying that officers are going to neglect their other responsibilities or protecting other citizens from ‘real crimes’ that threaten our safety by ‘prioritizing’ immigration enforcement is assuming that they will racially profile just because the work for Joe Arpaio who  is known for tough immigration law enforcement, ‘immigration law’ being a key point. He is the Sheriff and these are ‘law enforcement’ officers.

Isn’t that it’s own form of ‘profiling’?

Why Arizona HB 2467 is Wrong

Let me start by saying that don’t have a problem with anyone who would or has taken any oath of allegiance to God or Country, including our President. I do however have a problem with not having the choice. And before I get a comment that my daughter has a choice, being given an ultimatum is not freedom of choice.

First and foremost, ‘So help me God”. Yes that does mean something and yes it matters. No matter what context that statement is used. It does have stronger implications when it applies to an oath of allegiance that could take away life or liberty. Which brings me to the other issue. To swear this oath of allegiance to defend the Constitution when women after 200 years, for that matter since the very founding of this country to not have equality and protection from that very same Constitution is unfathomable. To break that oath would be treason, a crime in some states that is punishable by death or at the very least punishable by incarceration.

And before there are any eyes rolling and thoughts of dramatics on my part remember this. Men, yes I mean MEN, and religion  throughout history, are responsible for every war ever fought anywhere in the world that has cost over  millions lives all totaled, for the Crusades where thousands of people were slaughtered; tortured; burned; hung and disemboweled; beheaded and tortured for not believing in this very same God, for the Holocaust where not just 6,000,000 Jews were systematically exterminated; tortured; starved and experimented on but millions of ‘not normal’ people with disabilities as slight as a crooked nose; the mentally handicapped and those of non-Aryan or German blood, for the Inquisitions; Spanish and Catholic where hundreds of thousands of people were tortured; burned and brutally slaughtered across Europe where towns burned to the ground and whole communities of Jews were walled up in the Ghetto’s some less than a hundred yards from the Vatican gate and right below the Popes window, for the trial and convictions resulting in burning at the stake or hanging of countless women accused of being witches, for the enslavement of tens of thousands of black people, for countless lynchings of black people, for the ongoing suppression; violence; rape and human trafficking of countless women and children, for Female Genital Mutilation, for unspeakable treatment of animals, for the use of Atomic bombs that instantly and slowly; painfully and unnecessarily killed over a hundred of Japanese civilians, for over 1500 Hydrogen bomb tests that kills a countless number of marine life; and indigenous Peoples that rely on the oceans for their food and the slow and painful deaths; deformities and health problems beyond belief of our military personnel who were defending that very same Constitution.

And I’m dramatic? I put nothing inhumane past human beings.

Until that Constitution is rewritten, yes rewritten not ratified; not amended; not added to or altered but rewritten to include every American regardless of race, religion, sex or sexual orientation I will not swear an oath to it.

As far as God is concerned nothing will ever make that happen. Nothing.

 

Arizona’s Graduation Requirement; Swear an Oath of Allegiance to the United States

This is the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.

“I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the armed forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;so help me God.”

This is the Graduation Requirement; Constitutional Oath.

Beginning in the 2013‑2014 school year, In addition to fulfilling the course of study and assessment requirements prescribed in this chapter, before a pupil is allowed to graduate from a public high school in this state, the principal or head teacher of the school shall verify in writing that the pupil has recited the following oath:

I, _________, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge these duties; So help me God.

AZ HB2467

2013-01-23 House Referred to House FFR Committee
2013-01-23 House read second time
2013-01-22 House Assigned to House RULES Committee
2013-01-22 House Assigned to House ED Committee
2013-01-22 House Assigned to House FFR Committee
2013-01-22 House Introduced in House and read first time

Primary Sponsors of this Bill;

Rep Sonny Borrelli

Rep Carl Seel

Rep T.J. Shope

Rep Steve Smith

Rep Thorpe

Cosponsors;

Chester Crandell

Jeff Deel

David Livingston

All Republicans. The House consists of 36 Republicans and 23 Democrats. The Senate consists of 17 Republicans and 13 Democrats. Governor Jan Brewer is……guess what, a Republican.

I have a daughter who is a Junior this year, class of 2014. She attends a College Preparatory School, University High in Tolleson Arizona. It is a school for gifted kids that students must test into, but is receives state money, ergo it is a public school.

This is VERY personal. I will move my daughter to another state before she will be forced to take an oath with the words so help me God in it before she will be allowed to graduate.

 

My daughter will be 18 when she graduates, however a large percentage of students will be under the age of 18. They don’t even have any Constitutional rights. They can’t vote, they can’t defend the United States of America against any enemies.

My daughter has busted her Ass for the past 3 years and plans on doing the same for one more. She tested in the 97th percentile in the nation and is holding a 3.85 GPA taking advanced classes in a school for gifted kids that requires 3 more credits to graduate than all the other public schools in Arizona.

And they are going to tell her that if she doesn’t swear this oath of allegiance she won’t graduate?

Then there is this;

that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;

Remember the bill begins with this;

 In addition to fulfilling the course of study and assessment requirements prescribed in this chapter, before a pupil is allowed to graduate from a public high school in this state, the principal or head teacher of the school shall verify in writing that the pupil has recited the following oath:

that is not taking the oath freely and without mental reservation. She will be forced to swear an oath to a God she doesn’t believe in.  That is not who she is, that matters. And before any one labels either one of us unpatriotic don’t. She knows more about our government, our history, and our Constitution than most adults. She is the granddaughter of a decorated war veteran. Her mother, and both my sisters were  born at Kirtland Airforce Base. Her Aunt is a veteran. She believes in this country and she obeys its laws and defends it. She speaks out against the religious fanatics who stand on our flag and protest military funerals. When we are at the store or the post office when she shes someone in uniform, whether it is a military uniform, a police uniform or a firefighter uniform she takes the time to approach them and say thank you. She can tell you what almost every proposition means at state election time, she watches the presidential debates, the State of the Union Addresses and any most any other political speech that is made. She knows what the candidates policies are, she understands how Congress, the Senate and the House operate and what there jobs are. She has her own opinions on immigration, on abortion and on medical marijuana. She knows who Gloria Steinem, Billy Jean King, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger and Susan B. Anthony are and what they fought for. She knew what Seneca Falls was when President Obama referenced it in his inaugural speech that we watched together. She stopped and read the Magna Carta, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Constitution when we were at the National Archives in Washington DC. She shed a tear with me when we stood where Martin Luther King gave his I have a dream speech. She knows who the freedom riders were and who Frederick Douglas was. She shed tears of pride when we stood in front of my Uncle’s name on the Vietnam Wall. She shed tears of empathy when we went through the Holocaust Museum. She in not indifferent and speaks out against those who are. She has read a lot of the Bible and has come to her own conclusions. She knows a majority of the Quran, and she understands theosophy. She knows who Constantine was and how he merged the sword with the cross. She knows when politics and religion are being used by our government to manipulate and control.

This is one high school kid who will not fall for this violation of her rights, because she is an American and she knows what that means.

Jack White’s Blunderbuss Nominated for Album of The Year

Jack White’s first solo album Blunderbuss has been nominated for a Grammy, Album of The Year. He will be performing at the Grammy’s that will air Feb. 10th.

Kristi Stadler’s Suicide Assisted by Lack of Gun Control

Kristi’s suicide though tragic could have just as easily been a murder. That is not to say that I place blame on the Phoenix police for her death, it is to say that if she had killed someone else (which could have very easily happened) then I would place blame on the lack of gun control laws that allowed the Phoenix police to put a gun in the hand of a mentally unstable person.

This deeply disturbing story began more than a decade ago, but the only part of this story that needs to be retold is the end. Kristi Stadler was a woman who had been hospitalized several times for depression. She was on medication and she had an electrical implant to treat her depression. She had attempted suicide more than a few times over a period of 12 years.

This mentally unstable, heavily medicated and suicidal woman legally bought a gun which she had in her hand when she called her psychiatrist to tell her she was going to use it on herself. This mentally unstable, heavily medicated and  suicidal woman who legally bought a gun had it taken away by the officers who responded to her psychiatrists 911 call. These responders from the Phoenix police department upon arrival at the scene where her psychiatrist was waiting used her, the doctor’s, cell phone to talk to Kristi and calm her down and get her to relinquish her weapon.

These same officers, for fear of a lawsuit for violating this mentally unstable, heavily medicated and suicidal woman’s Second and Fourteenth amendment rights, returned this weapon back to her.

With the gun that the police returned to her in her hand Kristi called a crisis counselor named Luis.  And this is what she had to say;

“I went and picked up my gun today because they gave it back to me because they’re very, very stupid, and now I have my gun, and it’s loaded, and I’d like to shoot myself. So there’s my dilemma. I’m a little drunk…when I try to kill myself, I’m usually drunk. It makes it easier. I’ve tried this many times, and I have been unsuccessful, but a gun makes it very easy to be successful in killing yourself.”

Sometime after 4 a.m. the following morning Kristi Stadler shot herself with that same gun.

When Kristi walked into the gun dealer’s where she legally purchased this gun the background check that all gun dealers run before any gun sale should have included her history of mental illness and the fact that she was on medication for depression and the fact that she had an electrical implant to help treat her depression and the fact that she had been hospitalized several times for depression and the fact that she had attempted suicide. More than once. Having been provided with this information the sale should have been denied.

When Kristi had her weapon confiscated the Phoenix Police Department the requisite ‘Brady check’  that they are required to run before returning any confiscated gun should have included her history of mental illness including the fact that she was on medication for depression and the fact that she had an electrical implant to help treat her depression and the fact that she had been hospitalized several times for depression and the fact that she had attempted suicide. More than once. Let’s not forget the reason why the police confiscated her weapon in the first place. What the ‘Brady check did include was the fact that Kristi had never been ordered into treatment by a judge. Having that information and only that information they contacted Kristi and told her she could come pick up her gun. Yet again, let’s not forget the reason why the police confiscated her weapon in the first place. That alone should have been all that was needed for them not to be violating Kristi’s Second and Fourteenth amendment rights by not returning her weapon to her.

A person with a history of mental illness, who is on medication and has an electrical implant to treat depression, who has attempted suicide, more than once, shouldn’t be protected by any amendment rights that allows the ownership of a gun.

Kristi could have just as easily used this weapon she was legally able to own to kill her daughter that was taken away from her by the child’s father, who did so because he feared for the girl’s safety. She could have just as easily used this weapon she was legally able to own to kill the child’s father to prevent him from taking her daughter away, who did so because he feared for the girl’s safety. She could have just as easily shot her psychiatrist when she went to where Kristi was and where the police were dispatched to because she was threatening to use her gun to shoot herself. She could have just as easily shot of those same police officers who responded to the 911 call.

If she had threatened anyone else’s life with her gun like she did her own she would have been charged with the felony of armed with intent to use’ or possibly even with attempted murder. Would the police have returned the gun to her then? No. If the police would have been responding to that kind of 911 call and confiscated her weapon because she threatened to use it on someone else which would have undoubtedly resulted in her being convicted of a gun crime she would no longer legally be able to own a gun.

Kristi’s father Terry Stadler sued the Phoenix Police Department. His lawsuit was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton. She noted that the Police followed the law by returning Kristi’s gun to her.  Judge Bolton had this to say;

“Plaintiff suggests that the court develop a new limitation on the constitutional right to bear arms that would require all state and local governments to determine that an individual is not at risk of committing suicide prior to returning a seized firearm, the court believes that establishing such a limitation is a legislative function, not a judicial one.” 

Upon the dismissal of his lawsuit Terry Stadler was ordered to pay 450,000 dollars to cover the Police Department and the state’s legal fees.

Who is to blame for all this? I point the finger at the Right Wing NRA members and their supporters. I point the finger at the politicians who are so greedy for these NRA’s money that won’t cross them for fear of losing the support of these very powerful lobbyists. I point the finger at a system of government that gives organization’s like the NRA power as lobbyists. I point the finger at all the self-righteous ‘Americans’ who use the over 200-year-old constitution written by men who were trying to free themselves from foreign rule and who were arming themselves to protect their new-found untested form of government in a battle for freedom and the outdated amendment that was written during a war that was not fought by citizens armed with the unimaginable types of weapons and ammunition that is  available today in a country with 37 more states than there were at the time these rights were given to the people.

Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel

 

I have always had a standard statement if you will to those Christians who try to sell me on The Bible. It is simply, if you can tell me where Cain’s wife came from I will convert right now. No one has ever given me the answer.

I already know the answer but still challenge a Christian to give me one.

Not just a where from answer either, but a why was this information omitted from the Christian Bible? The lost books of Eden are in the Torah. (For any Christians reading this that would be the Hebrew of Jewish ‘Bible’ which is what would be renamed (and edited to fit in the time alotted) the Old Testament in the Christian Bible.

This omitted or lost book does more than tell where Cain’s wife came from. It does more than explain why Cain killed Abel. It actually adds some validity to the Christians ‘Intelligent Design Theory. The claim that one man, one woman, their two male children one of which is murdered, could populate the world, really? A 2 year old can see the flaw in that story.

Here is how the story originally went.

Eve bore Adam his first son Cain (Cain means Hater) and his second born was Cain’s twin sister Luluwa (Luluwa means Beautiful). 3 years later Eve bore Adam two more children, a son named Abel and his twin sister Aklia…

When their children had grown up Adam and Eve set out to wed Cain’s twin Luluwa to Abel whom they favored above them all, and to wed Abel’s twin Aklia to Cain.

Thus was made the motive which moved Cain to kill Abel. Once Cain slew Abel he then was wed to his sister Luluwa.

Seven years later Eve bore Adam another son whom they named Seth.

When Seth was 15 years old he was wed to Abel’s sister Aklia.

Validity. Thin veil of it but more a more plausible story that Adam and Eve had two sons and hence forth populated the world.

Why omit this book? Incest of course. It’s a sin. Oh but wait…..Adam, wife Eve, their two sons Cain and Abel, one kills the other leaving only one son Cain. His mother Eve would have to bear Cains children being the only womb and all……but wouldn’t that be incest? Okay next reason for omitting the book that includes 3 more children 2 of them women one who would bear Cain’s children the other the children of Adam and Eve’s youngest and third son Seth. It tells why Cain killed Abel, over a woman. One might think the Christians would use this to show how a woman can lure men to evil.

Given the information or lack there of provided I can’t swallow that teaching Adam and Eve in schools isn’t an around the water cooler chat but an actual case before the Supreme Court….WTF? Really? Assuming this illustrious panel of Judges all hold at least a law degree, what 6-8 years worth of Ivy League Education why are they not at the very least insulted to be asked to consider this bullshit has any semblance of a valid argument.

 

 

 

2nd Amendment, The NRA and Gun Control

The Second Amendment;

‘A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed’.

The Supreme Court decided that the word militia used here is descriptive and not restrictive. I disagree. I don’t know that it should be restrictive but it could be. I do not however believe that it is descriptive. This amendment was written over 200 years when there were actually militias that were armed with muskets and a few years later revolvers (no semi-automatic pistols or shotguns), not for ordinary citizens living in today’s society.

Over the past couple of days, since the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the issue of gun control is a hot topic. I am stunned, angered and disappointed that I have been repeatedly hearing all over the media (when the question is raised whether or not this tragedy will put gun control high on a priority list in Washington) how feared the National Rifle Association is and that because they are very powerful lobbyists that the answer to that question is no.

Regardless of mine or anyone else’s opinion on the matter of gun control it should outrage any American that the issue isn’t even brought up out of fear of this organization. It has the aura of The Mafia or a Fascist Regime.  Last time I checked the people and the government were in charge. Not the NRA or any other organized group of radicals.

Getting past the political threat of the NRA, let’s put gun control on the table. Let me start by saying I shot my first gun when I was 10 years old. I started hunting at the age of 13. I bought my first handgun, a Smith & Wesson .357 magnum 3 1/2 inch stainless steel barrel, when I was 18. I also have in my closet the 30-6 that belonged to my dad. When my oldest daughter was 5 years old I took her out shooting with us. With her hands on the grip of my pistol and my hands around hers and the grip we pulled the trigger. It scared the shit out of her and from that moment on any curiosity that might have been sparked about any gun she might see somewhere in our house was satisfied. I also never allowed  my kids to have or play with toy guns, not even squirt guns because I kept real ones in my home and on my and young children don’t know the difference. I have always lived in New Mexico and now Arizona which have some of if not the most relaxed gun laws in the country. The only restriction on handguns in both of these states is that without a permit your weapon cannot be concealed. A gun can be carried in a holster in any and all public places.

Back to gun control.  Here’s what I propose;

First and foremost, legal age to buy a gun should be 21, not 18. If you aren’t old enough to drink you damn  sure aren’t old enough to own a gun.

Second, include in the background check for gun purchase applicants:

• any restraining orders as a result of domestic violence complaints, not convictions but complaints

• drug testing, include screening for any applicants required by law to attend AA meetings or any substance abuse classes

• any mental health history including if the applicant is currently taking antidepressants or anti-psychotic medications

• applicants required by law to attend anger management classes.

Now before anyone starts yelling that this is a violation of privacy or civil rights let me throw this out there.  The federal government requires all those conditions I mentioned being met before they will give an applicant asking for Social Security Disability Benefits any money, or for those applying for Food Stamps or Welfare.

Next, put a limit on the amount of ammunition and magazine clips any one individual can purchase. There is a reasonable number that can be agreed upon that would be needed for protection. Requests for larger amounts for hunting should require one to show a hunting license. There should be further restrictions here, if the hunting license is for ducks then purchasing a gun or ammunition for shooting polar pears or elephants should not be legal.

There also needs to be a limit on how many guns one individual can own. One limit for handguns and a separate limit for rifles, allowing ownership of both without counting them together.

There are limits on how many drinks one person can have in front of them at one time, there are limits on pills can be dispensed at one time for certain prescriptions,  there are limits on how many dogs someone can own, and there are limits on how many children one adult can babysit at a time.

Anyone purchasing a gun should be required to take a class on gun safety and to take shooting lessons followed by a written test requiring a passing grade as well as a requirement to pass an eye exam.

Let me state that prior to getting a driver’s license you must have had a learners permit for a certain length of time and there is a certain amount of driving time required. Driving and written tests as well as eye exams are also required before the DMV will give anyone a driver’s license.

I hear the protests but I am not done yet.

Hold whoever sold any guns and or ammunition to someone who gets convicted of a crime involving the gun they sold to them responsible to some degree, and charge gun owners whose family members are convicted a crime involving one of their guns with at the very least negligence or reckless endangerment, unless they reported their guns stolen prior to any crime is committed.

One more time before the protests…

Bartenders and liquor store owners and customer service reps are held responsible for selling alcohol to any individuals who gets convicted of DWI or those convicted of vehicular homicide while driving drunk.  Homeowners are held responsible if a child drowns in their backyard pool if there wasn’t a fence.

I absolutely know that what I am proposing will be seen as a violation of certain civil rights.

When dealing with something that can and does kill, civil rights come in second. Owning a gun needs to be considered a privilege, not a right.  Any American who wants the privilege of owning a gun should respect rights of other Americans to be protected from unstable people be able to buy or own a gun.

Besides, anyone who doesn’t have anything to hide has nothing to worry about. Protesters need to get over being ‘inconvenienced’. They need to deal with it.

Now let’s address what kinds of guns should be illegal.

If, as the general protest is, everyone has the right bear arms for protection what in God’s name could anyone possibly need to be protected from that would require an assault rifle or a 16 round Glock 10 millimeter? The name ‘assault’ rifle alone says it all. And a Glock 10 mm? These guns are issued to Forrest Rangers to use in case they are confronted with a polar bear.

In addition if someone needs 16 rounds,  extra magazines or hundreds of extra bullets to ‘protect’ themselves then either they need to take shooting lessons or they are being assaulted by a tank or an army and no amount of ammo is gonna help.

Now to voice my complaints about the current gun laws.

Gun laws should be written and enforced at a federal level and should be consistent nationwide, not left up to individual states. Plus, defendants facing any gun related charge (including if so charged, those who sold or owned the weapon used) should only be tried in a federal court and sentenced by a federal judge, not in a county or municipal court and not by a local or district judge.

I will end this post on a very personal note.

When I purchased my handgun I took shooting lessons and I was taught by a Marine how to keep, load, carry, clean, disassemble and reassemble my weapon. I never left my weapon lying around when I didn’t live alone nor was it easily accessible to anyone else but myself.

I make these proposals even though I have been convicted for what I feel were unfair gun charges. One of which was unlawful possession of a firearm. I lost my right to vote and to own a gun in 1983, almost 30 years ago, and I have been refused every presidential pardon I have applied for. (The federal law requires a presidential pardon for gun crime convictions that can only be requested once every 7 years).

As  the legal owner of a .357 magnum and a resident of New Mexico, where the only restriction on owning and carrying a handgun is that it cannot be concealed without a permit, I took my  gun with me on a trip to the state of Iowa where handguns are illegal. I take responsibility for not checking the gun laws in Iowa or any state I drove through for that matter and blame no one but myself. But, I don’t agree with or understand how I was convicted of a federal crime for violating a state law.

I fight for the right to bear arms.

I also fight for more gun control laws.

Would more laws be an ‘inconvenience’?  I don’t know, let’s ask the faculty and students at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

 

Obama’s Defense of Ambassador Rice

I not sure where I stand on Ambassador Rice, whether I believe she was responding with the intelligence given her or if she is one of the guilty in this whole mess. I also haven’t decided if President Obama was and his administration were/are covering something up, whether they are really that stupid or whether Obama simply believes he ended terrorism with the death of Osama Bin Laden, there is also the possibility that he just didn’t want to admit that he hadn’t ended terrorism with the death of Bin Laden and was just trying to save face; however, I absolutely  commend the President for standing firm in defense of a member of his administration. He actually did more than stand behind her, he is standing front of her and stopping the train before it even reaches her.  It restores some faith in the character of men. Any other man would have most likely left that woman with all the blame whether she was at fault or not. Like I said whether she is or isn’t at fault, point’s scored on the Presidents side.

 

The Extermination of Jesus The Jew

If Jesus would have been put on trial in Rome by a Catholic Court and Judged by the Pope instead of being tried in Jerusalem by a Roman General who ordered he be given 40 lashes and made to walk up to the top of Golgotha to be nailed to a cross and crucified for being a Messiah he would have been crammed into a box car of a train and shipped to Auschwitz where he would have had a number tattooed on his arm, where he would have been stripped naked then sent to a gas chamber where he would have been exterminated for being a Jew.

Freedom of Speech

“The fact that society may find speech offensive is not a sufficient reason for suppressing it. Indeed, if it is the speaker’s opinion that gives offense, that consequence is a reason for according it constitutional protection. For it is a central tenet of the First Amendment that the government must remain neutral in the marketplace of ideas.”

“Admittedly, these oft-repeated First Amendment principles, like other principles, are subject to limitations. In Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U. S. 568 (1942), we held that a state could lawfully punish an individual for the use of insulting ” fighting’ words — those which by their very utterance inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace.”

But the sort of expression involved in this case does not seem to us to be governed by the exception to the general First Amendment principles stated above.

The Court of Appeals interpreted the jury’s finding to be that the ad parody “was not reasonably believable,” and in accordance with our custom we accept this finding. Respondent is thus relegated to his claim for damages awarded by the jury for the intentional infliction of emotional distress by “outrageous” conduct. But for reasons heretofore stated this claim cannot, consistently with the First Amendment, form a basis for the award of damages when the conduct in question is the publication of a caricature such as the ad parody involved here. The judgment of the Court of Appeals is accordingly Reversed.

Supreme Court Justice C.J. Rehnquist

485 U.S. 46

Supreme Court of the United States

February 24, 1988 Decide

Hustler Magazine and Larry C Flynt, Petitioners V. Larry Falwell

NO 86-1276

What Jack Has Done So Far

JACK WHITE

(I have no doubt that I do not include everything. Jack list of accomplishments is extensive, therefore this post may change as I come across more info).

Let’s start at the beginning of this incredible man’s life. John Anthony Gillis was born July 9th, 1975 in Detroit Michigan. He is the youngest of 10 kids. He had a strict Catholic upbringing attending Catholic schools. His dad, Gorman Gillis worked as a Maintenance engineer at the Archdiocese of Detroit where his mother, Teresa was the Cardinal’s secretary. He planned on going to Seminary school and becoming a Priest until he found out he couldn’t take his drum set.  Thank God for that.

He started playing music at the age of 6. In his late teens he got a job as an upholsterer. Upon discovery that a fellow employee was interested in starting up a band they decided to do just that. There was a small problem however, they both played the drums. Jack having always liked a challenge figured he would be the guitarist. The Upholsterer’s were born.

His first professional gig as a drummer was with Goober and the Peas.

After a handful of local bands he ventured on laying down some tracks on his own. He was dating a bartender named Meg White at the time and he asked her to play a couple of beats on the drums for him he wanted Meg to help him keep time while laying down the guitar track. The White Stripes were born.

“She played like a child” is how Jack describes Megs drumming. She had unbelievable rhythm and beat those drums with a child’s enthusiasm that knew no limitations, restrictions or technical knowledge of recording music. On September 21, 1996 Jack and Meg got married. Jack took Meg’s last name.

Publicly they presented themselves as brother and sister in the hope that this would keep the media focusing on their music and not on their relationship. It worked for several years until a reporter discovered the truth and of course informed the public. On March 24, 2000 they divorced. The White Stripes however did not break up. They played together until 2011. While still touring and recording with Meg, Jack formed a new band. Raconteurs were born.

While on tour with the Raconteurs Jack was experiencing vocal fatigue and asked the lead singer Allison Mossheart of the opening band The Kills to fill in on vocals for him. Something clicked between he and Allison. Jack went back to playing the drums and occasional guitar sharing lead vocals with Allison. The Dead Weather was born.

In 2011 after 10 years The White Stripes decided to call it quits. They didn’t dissolve the band because of differences personally or musically. This decision didn’t have anything to do with Jack’s other ventures either. As I understand it Jack wanted to end The White Stripes on a good note, pun intended. The White Stripes were not going to end up playing Casino’s performing ‘once upon a time’ hits because they hadn’t had a hit in years, or performing ‘oldies’ because they hadn’t recorded anything new in years.

Still with The Raconteurs and the Dead Weather, this year Jack released his first solo album Blunderbuss. For this album Jack put together an all-girl band, The Peacocks for some tracks and jams with a bunch of guys,  Los Buzzards. He recently performed in New York for an American Express presentation of Unstaged produced by Gary Oldman. This past spring he moved to Nashville where he opened his production company and recording studio Third Man Records. He produced Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose for which he won a Grammy.He appears doing a duet with Loretta Portland Oregon and plays guitar on the track Family Album.He also recorded duets Wanda Jackson on an album he also produced. He produced Karen Ellison’s, Insane Clown Posse and Beck’s latest albums at Third Man Records also this year. He also wrote the theme song for the movie Quantum of Solace ‘Another Way To Die’ which he recorded with Alicia Keyes.

That is just his music career. He also had landed a role in the movie Cold Mountain acting alongside Nicole Kidman and Renee’ Zellwegar with whom he had a brief relationship after Meg and before Karen. He had a small part playing Elvis in the movie Walk Hard and was one of a string of celebrities in the documentary Coffee and Cigarettes where he and Meg do a segment titled Jack’s Tesla Coil. He was featured along with the legendary Jimmy Page of Led Zepplin and The Edge of U2 in the documentary It Might Get Loud. He and Meg put out a documentary called Under Great White Northern Lights (where fans get to see his new guitar named Rita, so named after Rita Hayworth which features her face on the backside) which follows their tour and mission to play every province in Canada which included several impromptu performances in places such as bowling alleys and pool halls, they even played for passengers on a bus. This documentary is also their final tour and features their final performance together. The White Stripes released another documentary Under the Black Pool Lights. Jack has 7 movie soundtracks credited to him including for the movie Cold Mountain. He has made appearances on Elvira Mistress of The Dark and American Pickers.

He is currently working on the soundtrack for the upcoming movie The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp.

Vlad the Impaler: From Prince to Vampire

Vlad Tepesh has always been one of my favorite characters in history. As famous character as he is most people don’t know his story. Most people believe that the legend of Dracula came solely from Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

To understand how the Prince of Romania came to be a vampire you must understand the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Catholic Church. This ancient church never did and still doesn’t recognize the Pope in Rome as the head of the Church.

When Vlad needed money to support his war against the Turks he would have taken money from any source. The Orthodox Church would not offer him funds but the Roman Catholic Church did. The Orthodox Church considered this to be heresy and denounced Vlad. Eventually, they ended up excommunicating him. Excommunication means he will never enter the kingdom of heaven and he was condemned to walk as the undead through all eternity.

His reputation for being blood thirsty may or may not have been true but it was common practice, and still is today among many tribal people’s, to drink the blood of a defeated enemy. This would give the conqueror their power and their wisdom.

In Romania Vlad is a hero and considered to be one of the greatest Princes Romania ever had

Violence In The Name Of God

This morning Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, while giving a press conference about the Murder of an American Ambassador and 3 other Americans at the Embassy in Libya, said something that has been said by nearly every President, Vice President, Secretary of State or any other American leaders and government officials when faced with war or an act of war upon American’s ‘In the name of God’,

Those who act with violence in the name of God are not religious; this is not Islam or the word of Muhammad, or any other God etc. etc.

Yes they are and yes it is. Muslim’s who kill in the name of Muhammad are acting as true Muslim’s.

Catholic’s who kill in the name of God are acting as true Catholic’s.

Protestants who kill in the name of God are acting as true Protestants.

They are all carrying out God’s will. They are doing as their God has told them.

Since the day the Catholic Church came to be they have been killing those who were blasphemers or heretical. Today, still Protestants and Catholic are killing each other over religion. Muslims, Jews and Christians alike all believe in the same God. They all believe they are descendants of Abraham. Yet kill each other in that same God’s name, because God tells them to. God demands the death of those who oppose him, of those who do not obey him. The Wrath of God remember?

Exodus 11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast; that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel.

Exodus 15:3 The Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name.

Exodus 15:7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee; thou sentest forth thy wrath which consumed them as stubble.

Exodus 15:14 The people shall hear and be afraid; sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. 15:15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

Exodus 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. 17:14 And the Lord said unto Moses, write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. 17:15 And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovahnissi 17:16 For he said, because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

Exodus 22:18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 22:20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him; as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.

From The Holy Quran

Sura IV Nissaa Section 10:74 Let those fight in the cause of God who sell the life of this world for the hereafter. To him who fighteth in the cause of God, whether he is slain or gets victory soon shall we give him a reward of great value. 10:75 And why should ye not fight in the cause of God and of those who being weak, are ill-treated and oppressed? Men, women, and children, whose cry is “Our Lord, rescue us from this town, whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from Thee One who will protect; and raise for us from Thee One who will help” 10:76 Those who believe fight in the cause of God, and those who reject faith fight in the cause of evil. So fight ye against the friends of Satan; feeble indeed in the cunning or Satan.

Section 11:77 Hast thou not turned thy vision to those who were told to hold back their hands from fight but establish regular prayers and spend in regular Charity? When at length the order for fighting was issued to them, behold a section of them feared men as or even more than they should have feared God. they said “Our Lord why hast thou ordered us to fight? Wouldst Thou not grant us respite to our natural term, near enough?” Say: “Short is the enjoyment of this world; the hereafter is the best for those who do right; never will ye be dealt with unjustly in the very least” 11:78 “Wherever ye are, death will find you out even if ye are in towers built up strong and high”

Section 11:83 When there comes to them some matter touching Public safety or fear, they divulge it. If they had only referred it to the Apostle or to those charged with authority among them, the proper investigators would have tested it from them direct. Were it not for the Grace and mercy of God unto you, all but a few of you would have fallen into the clutches of Satan. 11:84 then fight in God’s cause. Thou art held responsible only for thyself and rouse the believers. It may be that God will restrain the fury of the unbelievers; for God is the strongest in might and in punishment.

Section 12:88 why should ye be divided into two parties about the Hypocrites? god hath upset them for their evil deeds. Would ye guide those whom God hath thrown out of the way? for those whom God hath thrown out of the way, never shalt thou find the way. 12:89 they but wish that ye should reject faith as they do and thus be on the same footing as they, But take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of God (from what is forbidden). But if they turn renegades, seize the and slay them wherever ye find them; and in any case take no friends or helpers from their ranks. 12:90 Except those who join a group between whom and you there is a treaty of peace or those who approach you with hearts restraining them from fighting their own People. If God had pleased, he could have given them power over you, and they would have fought you; therefore if they withdraw from you but fight you not, and instead send you guarantees of peace, ten God hath opened no way for you to war against them. 12:91 Others you will find that wish to gain your confidence as well as that of their people; every time they are sent back to temptation, they succumb therto; if they withdraw no from you nor give you guarantees of peace besides restraining their hands, seize them and slay them wherever ye get them; in their case we have provided you with a clear argument against them.

The White Stripes Awards

In 2002 the single Fell in Love with a Girl was nominated for Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards. It was nominated for Video of the Year and won for Breakthrough Video, Best Special Effects and Best Editing at the MTV Video Music Awards. At the Shockwaves NME Awards The White Stripes were nominated for Best Band and Best New Act.

In 2003 the single Seven Nation Army won for Best Editing and was nominated for Best Group Video, Best Rock Video and Best Special Effects at the MTV Video Music Awards and nominated for Best Video at the MTV Europe Video Music Awards where the album Elephant was nominated for Best Album and The White Stripes won for Best Rock and were nominated for Best Group.

2004 saw The White Stripes win a BRIT Award for Best International Group and the album Elephant get a BRIT Award nomination for Best International Album. At the Grammy Awards Elephant walked away with a win for Best Alternative Music Performance and a nomination for Album of the Year. They scored a win for Best Rock Song for the single Seven Nation Army along with a nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. Elephant also got a nomination for Best Album at the Shockwaves MNE Awards where Seven Nation Army won for Best Single and The White Stripes were nominated for Best International Band. Elephant won Best International Album at the Meteor Music Awards in Ireland. The single Hardest Button To Button also scored a nomination for Best Video. Hardest Button To Button was also nominated for Best Direction, Breakthrough Video, Best Special Effects and Best Editing at the MTV Video Music Awards and MTV Europe nominated it for Best Video.

In 2005 the single Blue Orchid got 3 MTV nominations for Best Direction, Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography. In Europe MTV nominated The White Stripes Best Alternative.

2006 yielded The White Stripes a Meteor Music Award nomination for Best International Group. The album Get Behind Me Satan won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance and a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group for the single My Doorbell. The White Stripes were also nominated at the Brit Awards for Best International Group.

In 2007 The White Stripes were nominated at the MTV Europe Music Awards for Artists choice and here in America MTV nominated Icky Thump for Best Group Video. The White Stripes were also nominated for Favorite Alternative Artist at the American Music Awards.

In 2008 The White Stripes received 3 NME Awards USA nominations. For Indie/Alternative Band of the Year, Indie/Alternative Album of the Year and Indie/Alternative Track for the Album Icky Thump and title track Icky Thump. A win at the MTV Awards for Best Cinematography for Conquest which was also nominated for Best Art Direction. The album and single Icky Thump won a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance and another for Best Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group along with a nomination for Best Rock Song. The White Stripes were nominated for Best International Group at the BRIT Awards also.

In 2011 The White Stripes won another Grammy for Under Great White Northern Lights winning Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package along with a nomination for Best Long Form Music Video.

The White Stripes Albums and Songs

WHITE STRIPES ALBUMS

1999 The White Stripes (All songs written by Jack and Meg White unless otherwise noted)

Jimmy the Explorer

Stop Breaking Down (Robert Johnson/Junior Wells)

The Big Three Killed My Baby

Suzy Lee

Sugar Never Tasted So Good

Wasting My Time

Cannon

Astro

Broken Bricks

When I Hear My Name

Do

Screwdriver

One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)

Little People

Slicker Drips

St. James Infirmary Blues (Joe Primrose)

I Fought Piranhas

2000 De Stijl (All songs by Jack White unless otherwise noted)

You’re Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)

Hello Operator

Little Bird

Apple Blossom

I’m Bound To Pack It Up

Death Letter (Son House)

Sister, Do You Know My Name?

Truth Doesn’t Make a Noise

A Boy’s Best Friend

Let’s Build A Home

Jumble Jumble

Why Can’t You Be Nicer To Me?

Your Southern Can Is Mine (Blind Willie McTell)

2001 White Blood Cells (All songs by Jack White unless otherwise noted)

Dirty Leaves and the Dirty Ground

Hotel Yorba

I’m Finding It Harder to Be a Gentleman

Fell in Love with a Girl

Expecting

Little Room

The Union Forever

The Same Boy You’ve Always Known

We’re Going to Be Friends

Offend in Every Way

I Think I Smell A Rat

Aluminum

I Can’t Wait

Now Mary

I Can Learn

This Protector

2003 Elephant (All songs by Jack White unless otherwise noted)

Seven Nation Army

Black Math

There’s No Home for You Here

I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself (Burt Bacharach/Hal David)

In the Cold, Cold Night

I Want to Be the Boy to Warm Your Mother’s Heart

You’ve Got Her in Your Pocket

Ball and Biscuit

The Hardest Button to Button

Little Acorns (Mort Crim/Jack White)

Hypnotize

The Air Near My Fingers

Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine

It’s True That We Love One Another

2005 Get Behind Me Satan (All songs by Jack White unless otherwise noted)

Blue Orchid

The Nurse

My Doorbell

Forever for Her (Is Over for Me)

Little Ghost

The Denial Twist

White Moon

Instinct Blues

Passive Manipulation

Take, Take, Take

As Ugly As I Seem

Red Rain

I’m Lonely (But I Ain’t That Lonely Yet)

2007 Icky Thump (All songs by Jack White unless otherwise noted)

Icky Thump

You Don’t Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You’re Told)

300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues

Conquest (Cory Robbins)

Bone Broke

Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn

St. Andrews (This Battle Is In the Air)

Little Cream Soda

Rag and Bone

I’m Slowly Turning Into You

A Martyr for My Love For You

Catch Hell Blues

Cause and Effect

2010 Under Great White Northern Lights (All songs by Jack White III unless otherwise noted)

Let’s Shake Hands

Black Math

Little Ghost

Blue Orchid

The Union Forever

Ball and Biscuit

Icky Thump

I’m Slowly Turning Into You

Jolene (Dolly Parton)

300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues

We Are Going to Be Friends

I Just Don’t Know What to Do With Myself (Burt Bacharach/Hal David)

Prickly Thorn, But Sweetly Worn

Fell In Love With a Girl

When I Hear My Name

Seven Nation Army

The Spastic Tubes Theory

Recently Rep Todd Akin brought the abortion laws to the forefront of the Republican Party platform when he referenced the “Spastic tubes” theory when argued his case for changing the abortion laws for rape and incest victims. This theory is that of Dr. John Wilke which he explains in his book Abortion and Slavery. To emphasize my fear of this man and the Pr0-lifer’s that support him I am first going to give this man’s ‘credentials’. Dr. John C. Wilke is a medical practitioner who was a senior attending staff member at Providence and Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati Ohio where he worked for 40 years. Currently he is president of the Nationwide Educational Life Issues Institute, on the board of Reference Academy of Medical Ethics (AAME). For 10 years he was president of the United States National Right To Life Committee and The United States National Right To Life Federation which he founded in 1984.

He has his own radio show 5 Mins that is broadcast on 400 stations world-wide and his 1 min comment “Life Jewels” airs on over 1000 English and Spanish stations around the world.

Dr. Wilke and his wife Barbara are the authors of Abortion and Slavery, History Repeats and Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Past and Present. In 1971 they published The Handbook on Abortion, Abortion Questions and Answers which has sold over 1,000,000 copies world-wide and translated into 21 languages. This was the first in a series spanning 25 years. In 1985 they published the 3rd book in this series Abortion: Questions and Answers, Why Can’t We Love Them Both? Dr. and Mrs. Wilke have also published 7 books on Sexual Health.

I have selected some excerpts from the Q and A in ‘Why Can’t We Love Them Both?” which contain the Doctor’s theory on why victims of rape and incest don’t get pregnant in the first place. The doctor argues that women can’t get pregnant when raped because their bodies will not allow the sperm to fertilize the egg if a woman was ‘legitimately raped, therefore there is no need legalize abortion for victims of rape and incest. He states his views as ‘scientific fact’ and mathematically concludes that women cannot get pregnant when raped or molested.

I have entered in my thoughts on each answer given in italics after each one. The questions and answers are copied word for word out of the book.

Dr. Wilke, “First and foremost this issue concerns forcible or assault rape, not consensual or marital rape”.

What exactly is consensual rape?

That is an oxymoron. And the law recognizes marital rape; only a male chauvinist would say that there isn’t rape in a marriage, only someone who believes that a woman is obligated to have sex with her husband.

Are assault rape pregnancies common?

No they are very rare.

-I don’t know where he gets this.

Are there accurate numbers?

The Justice Dept. from 1973 to 1987 surveyed 49,000 households annually, asking questions on violence and criminal acts. The results of those reported were: 1973-completed-rapes 95,934, 1987-completed rapes-82,505. The study stated that only 53% were reported to police. Accordingly the total numbers were: 1973-completed rapes-181,016. 1987-completed rapes-155,667. A more recent Justice Dept report using a study designed differently with more direct questions, returned a result of: 170,000 completed rapes and 140,000 attempted rapes.

-For starters let’s look at the years he uses for his statistics. Enough said.

And how many pregnancies result?

About 1 or 2 for each 1,000. Using the 170,000 figure, this translates into an overall total of 170 to 340 assault rape pregnancies a year in the entire United States.

One or two out of 1,000? Please explain.

There are about 100 million women in the United States old enough to be at risk for assault rape. Let’s use a figure of 200,000 forcible rapes every year. The studies available agree that there are no more than two pregnancies per 1,000 assault rapes. So much for the numbers. Let’s look at it from another angle and see if that figure makes sense. Of these 200,000 women who were raped, one-third are either too old or too young to get pregnant. That leaves 133,000 at risk of pregnancy. A woman is capable of being fertilized only three days out of her 30-day month. So divide 133,000 by 19 and 13,300 women remain. One-fourth of all women in the United States of child-bearing age have been sterilized. That drops the figure to 10,000. Only half of the assailants penetrate her body and/or deposit sperm. Cut it in half again. We are down to 5,ooo. Fifteen percent of non-surgically sterilized women are naturally sterile. That reduces the number to 3,600. Another 15% are on the p;ill or/are already pregnant. Now the figure is 3,070. Now factor in something that all adults know. It takes from five to ten months for an average couple to achieve a pregnancy. Using the smaller figure, to be conservative, divide the 3,000 figure by 5, and the number drops to about 600. In a healthy, peaceful marriage, the miscarriage rate ranges up to about 15%. In this case, we have incredible emotional trauma. Her body is upset. Even if she conceives, the miscarriage rate is higher than in a more normal pregnancy. If she loses 20% of 600, there are 450 left.

Finally, we must factor in one of the most important reasons why a rape victim rarely gets pregnant, and that is psychic trauma. Every woman is aware that stress and emotional factors can alter her menstrual cycle. To get pregnant and stay pregnant, a woman’s body must produce a very sophisticated mix of hormones. Hormone production is controlled by a part of the brain which is easily influenced by emotions. There’s no greater emotional trauma that can be experienced by a woman than an assault rape. This can radically upset her possibility of ovulation, fertilization, implantation and even nurturing of a pregnancy. So what further percentage reductions in pregnancy will this cause? No one really knows, but this factor certainly cuts the last figure by at least 50%, and probably more, leaving a final figure of 225 women pregnant each year, a number that closely matches the 200 found in clinical studies.

-I don’t even know how to respond to that. Here are some statistics I came up with

Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women.

Holmes MM, Resnick HS, Kilpatrick DG, Best CL.

Source: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425-2233, USA.

OBJECTIVE: We attempted to determine the national rape-related pregnancy rate and provide descriptive characteristics of pregnancies that result from rape.

STUDY DESIGN: A national probability sample of 4008 adult American women took part in a 3-year longitudinal survey that assessed the prevalence and incidence of rape and related physical and mental health outcomes.

RESULTS: The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year. Among 34 cases of rape-related pregnancy, the majority occurred among adolescents and resulted from assault by a known, often related perpetrator. Only 11.7% of these victims received immediate medical attention after the assault, and 47.1% received no medical attention related to the rape. A total 32.4% of these victims did not discover they were pregnant until they had already entered the second trimester; 32.2% opted to keep the infant whereas 50% underwent abortion and 5.9% placed the infant for adoption; an additional 11.8% had spontaneous abortion.

CONCLUSIONS: Rape-related pregnancy occurs with significant frequency. It is a cause of many unwanted pregnancies and is closely linked with family and domestic violence. As we address the epidemic of unintended pregnancies in the United States, greater attention and effort should be aimed at preventing and identifying unwanted pregnancies that result from sexual victimization.

PMID: 8765248 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Why not allow abortion for rape pregnancies?

We must approach this with great compassion. The woman has been subjected to an ugly trauma, and she needs love, support and help. But she has been the victim of one violent act. Should we now ask her to be a party to a second violent act-that of abortion? Unquestionably, many would return the violence of killing an innocent baby for the violence of rape. But, before making this decision, remember that most of the trauma has already occurred. She has been raped. That trauma will live with her all her life. Furthermore, this girl did not report for help, but kept this to herself. For several weeks or months, she has thought of little else. Now, she has finally asked for help, she has shared her upset, and should be in a supportive situation. The utilitarian question from the mother’s stand-point is whether or not it would now be better to kill the developing baby within her. But will abortion now be best for her, or will it bring her more harm yet? What has happened and it’s damage has already occurred.

She’s old enough to know and have an opinion as to whether she carries a ‘baby’ or a ‘blob of protoplasm’. Will she be able to live comfortable with the memory that she ‘killed her developing baby?’ Or would she ultimately be more mature and pregnant unwillingly, she nevertheless solved her problem by being unselfish, by giving of herself and of her love to an innocent baby, who had not asked to be created, to deliver, perhaps to place for adoption, if she decides that is what is best for her baby. Compare this memory with the woman who can only look back and say, “I killed my baby”.

Considering the previous answers and his previous statements that a woman who is legitimately raped won’t get pregnant because her body won’t allow it how compassionate do you think he and his followers really are?

But carry the rapist’s child?

True, it is half his. But remember, half of the baby is also hers, and there are other outstretched arms that will adopt and love that baby.

I don’t see how she could!

Interestingly, the pregnant rape victim’s chief complaint is not that she is unwillingly pregnant, as bad as the experience is. The critical moment is fleeting in this area. It frequently pulls families together like never before. When women are impregnated through rape, their condition is treated in accordance, as are their families. We found this experience is forgotten, replaced by remembering the abortion, because it is what they did. In the majority of these cases, the pregnant victim’s problems stem more from the trauma of rape than the pregnancy itself. As to what factors make it most difficult to continue her pregnancy, the opinions, attitudes, and beliefs of others were most frequently cited; in other words, how her loved ones treated her.

-This is just bull. What an ass! If there is any truth to this at all it would be a result of how people like him treat rape victims.

But many laws would allow for this exception.

That is because many only think of the mother. But we should also think of the baby. Should we kill an innocent unborn baby for the crime of his father? Or let’s look at it this way. Do we punish other criminals by killing their children’? Besides, such laws pose major problems in reporting, and also women have been known to report falsely.

You accuse women of lying?

We don’t have to. Radical feminist guru Gloria Steinem, in a 1985 interview with USA Today said that “to make abortion legal only in cases of rape and incest would force women to lie.” The story of Jane Roe, of the Roe V. Wade decision, is well-known. Norma McCorvey (her real name) fabricated a story, that she had been gang raped at a circus, in the mistaken impression that this would permit her to obtain a legal abortion in Texas. Not until 1987 did she reveal that the baby was actually conceived “through what I thought was love.” Up until 1988, Pennsylvania’s Medicaid program funded abortions, for women who claimed they had been raped, without any requirement for reporting the purported assault to a law enforcement agency. Under this law, abortion clinic personnel issued thinly veiled public invitations for women to simply state that they’d been raped, and the state ended up funding an average of 36 abortions a month based on such unsubstantiated claims. In 1988 the legislature added a requirement for reporting the rape to a law enforcement agency, and the average dropped to less than 3 abortions per month.

-This man and his followers are obviously bias against ‘feminists’. He uses a quote from Gloria Steinem out of context. You have to look at the big picture, which I will paint after the following answer.

You said reporting was a problem?

The problem is requiring proof. If the woman goes directly to the hospital, her word is accepted. But, sadly, through fright or ignorance, she may not report it and quietly nurse her fears. She misses her period and hopes against hope that it isn’t what she thinks it is. Sometimes months ago by before finally, in tears, she reports to her mother, her physician, or some other counselor or confidante. To prove rape then is impossible. The only proof of rape then is to have a reliable witness corroborate the story, and such a witness almost never exists.

-It is unbelievable that this man assumes that every woman would do what he suggests. In tears she finally tells her mother. How could anyone accept any of this as factual information? Again, I don’t know where he gets this stuff, her word is accepted? Really? Hospital personnel cannot and do not make assessments on whether a woman is raped or not. They do a rape kit. That’s all. They can provide information on where to go for help and can offer them a way to call law enforcement. That’s it.

What proof would be needed early on?

Reporting the rape to a law enforcement agency is needed. Any hospital emergency room will handle this. If done within a day or two, she can be examined, given medicine for sexually transmitted diseases and counseled. Her word will rarely be questioned. But if it is many days later after a missed period, her word may not be enough.

-Let’s look at why rapes aren’t reported. It is not due to the reasons Dr. Wilke claims. First, her word is never enough. Rape has to be proven in court. As a rape victim I can personally attest to the treatment of rape victims by law enforcement and in court. Today it is not as bad, there has been significant improvement by the police in the attitude about rape but it is still not good. I, like most women, are subjected to their personal life being put on trial. Whether or not they are virgins, whether or not they are have had several sexual partners, even how they dress and the places the frequent. I don’t care if you are a prostitute in the middle of having sex, if at any point you say no or stop and the man does not it is rape. REGARDLESS.

What percentages of rape pregnancies are aborted?

Less than half. The balances carry the baby to term. In one study of 37 rape pregnancies, 28 carried to term.

What is her chief complaint?

Perhaps, surprisingly, it is not the fact that she is pregnant. Her chief complaint is “how other people treat her.” This should be very sobering to everyone. How is she treated? Do others understand the trauma she has experienced, and love and support her? Or, do they avoid her and act as if it was partly her fault, or worse? Just think, if all such victims were given generous love and support, many more than at present would carry their babies to term.

-I would like to know how many women feel that way, seriously. And again, he offers so much love and support.

What is she could not cope with raising the child?

We must let these women know that it is all right to feel that way. We truly understand. That does not mean, however, that the baby is unwanted. There are innumerable arms outstretched, asking for a child to love. Any number of couples will want the child. She should be supported and encouraged if she chooses to place the child in a loving adoptive home.

-Let me point out the practical here. Who is going to pay for the prenatal care?

What of incest?

Incest is intercourse by a father with his daughter, uncle with niece, etc. It usually involves a sick man, often a sick mother who frequently knows it’s happening (even if not consciously admitting it), and an exploited child. Fortunately, pregnancy is not very common. When incest does occur, however, it is seldom reported and, when reported, is hard to prove. Most pregnancies from incest have a very different dynamic than from rape and must be counseled in a very different manner.

Even strongly pro-abortion people, if they approach an incest case professionally, must be absolutely convinced before advising abortion, for abortion is not only an assault on the young mother, who may well, be pregnant with a “love object”, but it may completely fail to solve the original problem. It is also unusual for wisdom to dictate anything but adoptive placement of the baby.

Love object?

When pregnancy does occur, it is often an attempt to end the relationship. In a twisted sort of way, however, the father is a love object. In one study, only 3 of 13 child-mothers had any negative feelings toward him.

In incest is pregnancy common?

No. “Considering the prevalence of teenage pregnancies in general, incest treatment programs marvel at the low incidence of pregnancy from incest. “Several reports agree at 1% or less.

How does the incest victim feel about being pregnant?

For her, it is a way to stop the incest; a way to unite mother and daughter, a way to get out of the house. Most incestuous pregnancies, if not pressured, will not get abortions. “As socially inappropriate as incest and incestuous pregnancies are, their harmful effects depend largely upon reaction of others.

-This is hard to even give a response to. There is usually a sick man involved? Really? And the presumption that there is usually a sick woman, ie the mother, who doesn’t do anything is just more evidence of his attitude towards women in general. To suggest that the victim gets pregnant as a way of stopping the incest or to reunite her with her sick mother…wow. To say that 3 out of 13 victims had negative feelings toward him? Again where does he get this stuff? Victims of incest, especially daughters raped by their fathers are confused by the entire issue. I blame Christianity and those in society who have for hundreds of years said that one should honor they father, obey thy father etc. And these victims not understanding what is happening to them because the father usually convinces them that is how fathers love their daughters, or they say it is because they are bad or they threaten harm to someone the victim loves if she tells.

-And incest can be between brother and sister and cousins, and ‘socially inappropriate’? How about unacceptable and illegal.

-This man and his large following are dangerous. When I don’t understand where they get their ideas from, and how anyone could possibly believe any of this, all I have to do is remember that they are Christians, that believe Adam and Eve and Cain populated the earth.

The Movie Troy and where it went wrong

First off this war lasted for 12 years.

Second off, Particles is not the younger cousin or nephew of Achilles, he is an older man and Achilles best friend.

Third, Hector does not slay Menelaus after Paris is beaten by him. Helen reunites with him and the Gods send them to a remote Island where Menelaus is blind and there is no one to admire Helens beauty for the rest of her life.

Fourth, Achilles does not take Perseus as his captive he takes a slave girl from another village.

Fifth, Hector does not slay Ajax. Hector is severely injured by Ajax early in the first year of the war and does not recover for 5 years.

Sixth, Paris is poisoned by his wife and does not live to shoot the arrow into Achilles heal, The God Apollo disguised as Paris shoots the arrow, remember Achilles cannot be killed by a mortal man and he did piss Apollo off when he cut off the statues head.

Seventh, The Gods are very much in the middle of the entire battle.