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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Cal  Thomas :: Townhall.com Columnist
How About A Stimulus For Life?
by Cal Thomas
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Great inhumanities are usually ushered in at the extremes in order to make the public more accepting. Abortion on demand followed the 1973 Roe v. Wade case where Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe, "alleged" she had been raped, resulting in pregnancy. Technology allows people to abort a "defective" baby in the womb, "selectively reduce" implanted embryos to the desired number, or even abort a female when a male is wanted.

Euthanasia will not originate with your beloved grandmother or parents. It will start in a public hospital with a 100-year-old woman who has multiple health problems and "wants" to die so as not to "burden" anyone. Public opinion polls will determine that a majority favor letting -- even helping -- the old girl die.

Yes, there are times when a patient and his family may decide to forego treatment and allow death to occur, but that decision should not be made by a government official. Once that door is opened (as it was with abortion) there will be no closing it and dying will become a patriotic duty when the patient's balance sheet shows a deficit.

They'll probably have a clergyman available to bless the government's decision and make everyone feel better about it.

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Cal Thomas is co-author (with Bob Beckel) of the book, "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America".
 
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FRIDAY THE 13TH HORROR BILL
By coincidence the Friday the 13th Horror Bill was signed into law by Obama at 1300 hours (1:23 PM) Denver time at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. If you translate the letters of this six word name into their numerical equivalents using the standard English numerological system: A-I=1-9; J-R=1-9; S-Z=1-8 it will have a total numeric value of 130, or 13 with the zero dropped.

Click ApolloSpeaks to read the rest of this piece: Sign of the Destructive Sixties: The Friday the 13th Horror Bill and the Meaning of Ted Kennedy's Absence from the Vote.

christianlib...
conflict of interest...lots of that going on in WDC...why stop with cantor? keep going...i'm sure you'll find massive abuses on both sides of the aisle. but, i notice very few libs confronting their own leaders on such issues. the finger is always pointed at "the other guy." no conflicts of interest inside the dem's camp...right?

yes...i know...mrs. pelosi would never involve herself with such abhorrent behavior...spokespersons are always truthful when speaking about their bosses and their bosses actions. excuse me for not putting too much stake in that one, dear christianlib.

see...what matters to me is not who gets $50 million here and $50 million there...pelosi, hatch, bennett...rather why and how this money is being spent inside of a STIMULUS bill. and, enough with the job creation these projects would provide (except the temporary work)...then the projects turn into a continual money pit...the restoration needs an "up-do"...send more money...erosion...help...and on & on.

let all the greedy senators/congressman fight it out in an appropriations bill...yawn...waste of our money...stop the bleeding!! we have become a country of wimps and opportunists. i know better than any one in WDC how to best spend MY money. i work too hard to have the hacks in washington take a large portion of my $ to support their pet projects and line the pockets of each other and their friends. i know what charities and environmental projects i would like to invest in...especially in my home state. let california, utah, etc, find their own funding. you can't tell me that SF can't find private donors to fund the wetlands project...please!!! you see, christianlib, i am not impressed with any of your arguments or excuses or fact-finding...the bottom line is these projects ARE IN THIS BILL...how my money is used is up to the schmucks in congress...the vagueness of what you just quoted to me is possibly more worrisome!!

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