tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241643342011-08-03T22:29:22.783+12:00everything's gonna be okAndynoreply@blogger.comBlogger6721100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164334.post-27261183095935246412010-11-06T15:56:00.003+13:002010-12-29T14:58:57.965+13:00

I've moved my blog from Google's Blogger platform, to Wordpress. You can view the new blog at StarStuddedSuperStep.com. All posts and comments have been transferred across. Will be leaving this (old) blog online for the time being, however commenting has been turned off.

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Referendum File 1: The Logic of the Campaign for Democracy Referendum File 2: Can They Be Trusted? Reading between the lines of the latest email update from the Campaign for Democracy (previously "The Kiwi Campaign for Democracy"), it is clear that the petition to bring in binding referendums has hit the brick wall of public apathy to this issue. The petition question reads, “Should Parliament

Andynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164334.post-56915185920396691542010-10-15T15:56:00.000+13:002010-10-15T15:56:54.825+13:00

Does choice have anything to do with the morality of an action (abortion for instance)? In this video I discuss a common misconception about abortion; that it is justified for simply being a choice... It's complicated stuff, but hang on with me! This is a vlog of my 10 March 2010 blog-post entitled "Abortion is a Woman's Choice. Just Like Rape is a Man's Choice" In upcoming vlogs I'll be

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Mitch Stewart, Director of the Democrats' "grassroots" campaign arm, Organizing for America just sent out an email update. As usual, he warns us of the evil "corporations and special interests". "Republican candidates for Congress are now saying they want to reduce, or even eliminate, the federal minimum wage," he complains. "They're talking about ending a law that protects American workers

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So if you are the potter and i am the clay, you don't gotta answer why you made me this way but evenso, my mind remains curious, though others look down, cite me as spurious. a distressed looking potplant catches my eye, most of the others are dead and dry. this growth retains the spark of life, though all around, surrounded by strife and plenty within - I daresay it's true, kicked when it's down

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Bryan Kemper writes on his blog of his experience at the March for Life in Berlin on September 18. Unless you read this post, you're really not going to be able to comprehend the nature of the pro-abortion lobby in Germany, and the kind of thing we're going to be up against here in New Zealand if we continue to attempt to "take away women's reproductive rights"...Bryan writes,Besides the 1,800

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New Zealand's over-65 population is spiraling out of control. By 2026 the number of over-65s will have doubled, leaving the Government and the economy struggling to care for them. But the Government - and New Zealand itself have brought this upon themselves with abortion which has killed 400,000 pre-born Kiwis since 1974. NZ Herald Article: "Urgent plan needed for over-65s - report", 8 Sept,

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The Kiwi Party has made itself known as a "Judeo-Christian Values Party" - although upon a cursory glance of their website I couldn't find any reference to this. The party's leader is ex-United Future List MP, Larry Baldock. He is backed up with fellow ex-United Future List MP, Gordon Copeland now serving as Party President, and More FM Radio celebrity, Simon Barnett. The party is strongly

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Just heard from the Manhattan Declaration project that,So many of you emailed the Republican House leader's office last week urging the party not to backtrack on its commitment to life, liberty and marriage that you brought the email servers down. We have just been informed that the Republican leadership WILL now include references to marriage and federal funding of abortion in their election

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My day in Christchurch on the day of the second biggest earthquake of our country which shook up the whole city, leaving many homeless, including a cat who seemed quite content to find a seat in some rubble. This video includes previously unseen footage and photos and is a first-hand account of the catastrophic event. My follow up video to this vlog is entitled "Christchurch Earthquake: Thank

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Why do Christians say "Thank God nobody was killed in the earthquake"? What do they mean... or do they even know what they mean? This video is a quick look at the deeper side to the 4/9/10 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. This video is a follow-up to my last vlog entitled Christchurch Earthquake 4 Sept. 2010 in which I discussed my day in Christchurch on the day of the second biggest

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The sponsor of New Zealand's latest "Abortion on Demand" bill, Steve Chadwick believes that there aren't enough abortions in New Zealand. What's going on behind the scenes here?

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"If you don't agree with abortion, don't have one!" This is a statement which is made frequently by those in the pro-abortion movement. In this video I discuss what an absolute pathetic excuse for an argument that it is.

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Some in the pro-abortion movement make the statement - "what right do men think they have to force their views about abortion on women?" In this video I discuss the two major reasons why men are justified in speaking against abortion.

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Cross-posted from the Exposing ALRANZ blog, below is a fisking of a recent article making the rounds in the pro-abortion blogosphere.On 13 August 2010, Julie Fairey of The Hand Mirror Blog and Mothers For Choice wrote an article summarising the talk she gave that day on campus at Auckland University, entitled "Abortion: Why it Needs to be Legal". The talk was organised by Kristy Kearny, Alana

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In Wairarapa, New Zealand, mothers seeking an abortion must be offered to see the ultrasound scan of their pre-born baby. But 98% are saying "no thanks" - what's going on here? The article on this issue is here. For my last vlog on "Aborting Cows", click here. For previous vlogs, click here.

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In New Zealand approximately 200,000 calves are aborted every year - so that calving happens all at the same time. But where's the outrage about the 18,000 human babies who are aborted every year? This is my first shot at vlogging - we'll see how it goes.

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Republican Minority House Leader John Boehner speaking at NRLC. "Americans love life and we love freedom - they're both intertwined in the American character - without respect for life, freedom is in jeopardy. When we confirm the dignity of life, we affirm our commitment to freedom. There's nothing more defenceless, more innocent - than an unborn baby. If you believe in a right to life, then

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General Session on Day 3, "2,000 Pages Plus of Really Bad Stuff” of the National Right to Life Convention featuring Douglas Johnson speaking on abortion coverage and Burke Balch, J.D. speaking on rationing in the Health Care Act. Douglas Johnson is speaking on abortion coverage in the Health Care Act. One of the ways the pro-abortion lobby has always sought to increase the number of abortions

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Alex and I at the Future of Planned Parenthood: Building the Abortion Empire session Currently in Communications 201: "Putting Communication Skills Into Action Through Events and Advertising" with Derrick Jones and Cheryl Ciamarra. Picking up on many tips and tricks for handling media and public relations - will be useful to take back to New Zealand to benefit Prolife NZ. Caught up with Steven

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Eileen Haupt is speaking on "Confronting the Abortion of Children with Down Syndrome" at the 2010 National Right to Life Convention. Chances of conceiving a DS baby increases with maternal age. All chromosomes are normal.  DS was named after John Langdon Down who in 1866 gave a name to the characteristics associated with DS people. 1930s, researches suspected DS might be caused by a chormosomal

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Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. is speaking on "The Future of Planned Parenthood: Building the Abortion Empire Through Mega-Clinics and Chemical Abortion". How Planned Parenthood and the Family Planning Association Make More Money on Chemical Abortions Mifepristone pills cost $90 each. Initially, abortion mills committing chemical abortions would give the woman three misoprostol pills and then

Andynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164334.post-85684341847856151902010-06-26T06:07:00.000+12:002010-06-26T06:07:29.578+12:00

Karen Cross, political director for NRLC, David N. O'Steen Ph.D., executive director of NRLC and Daria St. Martin, assistant executive director of NRLC are speaking in a session on "Preparing for the Next Round - 2010", the midterm elections in the U.S. 4.5% voted for McCain and 0.5% voted for Obama on the issue of abortion in the 2008 election. 10% voted Republican on economy compared with 24%

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Angela Franks, Ph.D. is speaking on “Planned Parenthood’s War Against Children”. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger believed that children oppressed women - she called this "sex servitude" - women are oppressed by their fertility. She said, "The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex-servitude." She believed that women have a eugenic duty

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Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. is speakingThe process of an RU486 abortion is:Anti-progestin or anti progesterone is takenShuts down baby's life support systemBaby shovels and diesMenstrual process initiatedProstaglandin (PG) forces baby outThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration protocol states that the woman must be no more than 49 days since her last menstrual period, as effectiveness drops at this

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J. David Franks, Ph.D is a Catholic theologian who is speaking on "Pro-Life Conversion: Cultivating Serious and Intelligent Solidarity with the Most Powerless".Part 1: Love and our DutyFranks states that libertarianism cares only about "my choice" and puts it above everything else. This is patently incorrect, as libertarianism limits the choice of the individual with the freedom and choices of

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I am at the 2010 National Right to Life Convention from today through to Saturday. I will be live blogging and live tweeting from within the sessions. Looking forward to hearing Steven Ertelt of LifeNews.com, Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, and House Republican Leader, John Boehner. Good also to catch up with Kelsey Hazard of Secular Prolife.

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Steven Mosher is speaking in the general session this morning on sex-selective abortion. India: In India as many as half a million unborn baby girls are aborted each year because of their gender. This works out as a sex ratio at birth to 130 boys to 100 girls - the normal ratio is 106 boys to 100 girls - by adulthood, this will have usually dropped down to 100:100. In some areas, 7/10 pre-born

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"Pharaoh, king of Egypt commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.” ...but when Moses' mother saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the

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When did "women's choice" become repression of the First Amendment protected freedom of speech in the United States? "A ballot initiative by human rights group Personhood Nevada has been thwarted by Planned Parenthood, the ACLU, and local Judge James Russell. On Friday, January 8, Judge Russell ruled that the fourteen word amendment did not encompass a single subject, although it is comprised

Andynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164334.post-74224942714213851532010-06-15T13:50:00.002+12:002010-06-21T11:15:03.627+12:00

I like a lot of what Glenn Beck has to say about the left in the U.S., and the economy... but he should keep his mouth shut about sports because he doesn't know what he's talking about. Listen to his arrogance below... if you can bear it.

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Fisking: A point-by-point refutation of a blog entry or (especially) news story.On 3 May 2010, the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand (ALRANZ) published their monthly newsletter, with their leading article being entitled "ALRANZ wins website sabotage case". The article was presumably written as a collaboration by former baby-killer and president of the organisation, Margaret Sparrow

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Back in the post-war years, up until my parents were at school, children were given a glass, or bottle of milk at school in an effort to increase the healthiness of Kiwi kids. That stopped in 1967. And in 1977 New Zealand got it's "Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act" - a relatively pro-life act which declared that abortions would only be legal if the mother's life or health were in

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To the Editor: I object and take exception to everyone saying that Obama and Congress are spending money like a drunken sailor. As a former drunken sailor, I quite when I ran out of money. Bruce L. Hargraves USN Retired Worland

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On 5 November 2009, I purchased the domain name, www.alranz.org.nz, and made a simple spoof website which you can view here (note, graphic image). On 8 February 2010, President of the organization, Dame Margaret Sparrow emailed me, claiming that the website was unethical and unacceptable, and requesting that the site be taken down, stating:"I object to the pornographic photo posted on the website

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The former Govenor of New Mexico, and Honorary Chairman of the OUR America Initiative writes, warning of misplaced enthusiasm in supporting politicians who claim to stand with the Tea Party movement on issues such as small government and lower tax. Below is an excerpt from his article...A lot has been said of “principle over party” by the tea party movement in the last year. They stuck to their

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I haven't blogged for ages... just about one month since my last post. I've got a project on the go which is taking up a lot of my time, but more on that later. Shortly I'll publish a post about an incident involving the pro-abortion lobby group, the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand. Those working for ALRANZ read my blog... hello Alison McCulloch and Margaret Sparrow - I trust

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An elderly British gentleman of 83 arrived in Paris by plane. At the French customs desk, the man took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry-on bag.  You have been to France before, Monsieur?' the customs officer asked, sarcastically.  The elderly gentleman admitted he had been to France previously. 'Then you should know enough to have your passport ready.' The elderly gentleman

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Star Studded Super Step has been online for four years. My first post on 16 March, 2006 was on a blog named "TBC" which stood for "To Be Confirmed". A month or two later I decided on a title, choosing the name of Poor Old Lu's 1995 album, Star Studded Super Step. It had been a toss up between that and a couple of their other songs, A Snowfallen Desert and For the Love of My Country. I guess I

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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next".They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

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When someone tells me that they are pro-choice, I always think - well heck, I'm pro-choice too. Proponents of "abortion as a woman's choice" will tell you that they think that women should have the right to choose. Choice is placed on a pedestal; it is high up, and we must not question it. Discourse over the nature of the choice is discouraged, instead emotive and often frenzied campaigns are run

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Will be attending the ACT 2010 conference in Wellington Friday to Saturday. ACT stands for the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers and is the most liberal party in Government, with 5 MPs. I will be livetweeting the conference, #actnz.

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The pro-abortion lobby in New Zealand is coming under pressure from a growing number of people and groups speaking out against the injustice of abortion. The Herald reported on Friday, 19 Feb: "Anti-abortion doctors have gone to court to challenge new Medical Council guidelines on how physicians with personal objections to abortion must deal with patients. One of the doctors is believed to be

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On Friday Stop Family Planning held their third march expressing opposition to the Abortion Supervisory Committee granting the Family Planning Association an abortion licence. The march was supported by Family First, Right to Life, Family Life International and Prolife NZ. click here for more photos of the march Accompanied by two police cars and two policemen on motorbikes the crowd of around

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The highly active Kapiti branch of Voice for Life recently purchased a van and had it painted bright green and sign-written with various pro-life messages. The van is available for use by pro-life groups and youth-groups throughout New Zealand. On Monday, 8 Feb the van was vandalised by someone who wrote with a vivid marker, "This Vam [sic] is abusive" and further writing on the van claiming that

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In Referendum File 1 we looked at the claims and the logic found in a letter which was sent by Larry Baldock to his supporters. In Referendum File 2 we are going to take a look at the petition itself and ask the question, "Can we trust the Campaign for Democracy with the personal information they are collecting from people around New Zealand?"The petition is a vast improvement on Larry Baldock

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I haven't laughed for a while, and it's been too long since you read some high quality humour, so here's an email that's been circulating about Security Levels... The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved." Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even "A Bit Cross." The

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SEIU Vice President, Eliseo Medina, 2009The SEIU is one of the largest unions in the states, claiming 2.2m members. On June 2, 2009 the Vice President of the SEIU addressed the America's Future Now! conference in Washington, D.C. For almost a year the video languished in the SEIU's Youtube channel, until Kiwi blogger Trevor Loudon, following a lead, came across the video and reposted a segment

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Larry Baldock of The Kiwi PartyThe StarStuddedSuperStep blog will be following the progress of the Campaign for Democracy, bringing updates to our readers and visitors. Background to the campaign, details on those behind it, and further information will be presented in future Referendum Files. Our readers from New Zealand will be aware of the apparantly unsuccessful citizens initiated referendum

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I have a number of serious posts waiting to be written but in the mean time, how about a pretty decent joke about Aunty Karen... The teacher gave her fifth-grade class an assignment: get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. Ashley said, "My father's a farmer, and we have a lot of egg-laying

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On Tuesday Bay Staters will decide on the new Massachusetts representative in the U.S. Senate, replacing the late Ted Kennedy in the strongly blue state. Republican candidate Scott Brown has pledged to be the 41st vote against the Health Care bill while Democrats candidate Martha Coakley has stated she will be the 60th vote for the Senate version of the bill. If the Democrats lose Massachusetts

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Heading down to Waihola for a week to help out at a boy's camp run down there by Christian Youth Camps. Should be a great opportunity for all involved, and am looking forward to a week without a computer screen anywhere in sight. I helped out at the same camp two years ago and here's what happened. See y'all later.Kia Kaha

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Utah House of Representatives Republican, Carl WimmerAndrew Jenkins, a writer at the Feminists for Choice Death blog and "a self-proclaimed queer feminist" is having kittens. He is upset by the introduction of a bill set to be debated in early 2010, into the Utah House of Representatives by Republican Representative Carl Wimmer. Wimmer is a strongly conservative politician with a mission to chip

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The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed an amendment to the state's abortion law known as HB-1595 on 13 May 09. The law passed through the Oklahoma Senate on 15 May, and was scheduled to come into force on 1 November 09. Read the act here. The amendment served to establish several crucial changes to the abortion law. Firstly, prohibiting an abortion from being committed soley on account of

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A couple months ago, I entered a contest and ended up winning a few acres of swamp land below the flood plane in Mississippi. Before I knew it, right after that I won a $250,000 house, so naturally I built it on my new land. Last week, I won enough money in the lottery to quit my job and move down there for good. And just last night, as sat on my new porch watching the rain and listening to the

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Keith Mason of Personhood USA Congratulations to Personhood USA on becoming a nominee for the The National Abortion Rights Action League's 2009 Hall of Shame. In their description of the threat Personhood USA poses to the pro-abortion movement, NARAL write, The group behind the anti-choice "personhood" measures, Personhood USA, exists solely to establish legal rights for fertilized eggs and

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A New Zealand woman commented on a post I wrote recently about a recent NZ study which found that, "Women reporting adverse reactions were up to 80 per cent more likely than women not exposed to abortion to have mental health problems". Here is her comment:You are absolutely right about the lack of informed consent. I had an abortion eight yrs ago and almost died from depression after it - I was

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From the moment Jesus was born people hated Him and wanted to kill Him. The Romans had put in place a puppet king, King Herod of Judea who was jealous of his position and saw the birth of this baby as a threat. Later on, one of Jesus' followers named Matthew wrote down the events which we now have in the Bible, Matthew 2:13-16;"An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise,

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hat-tip: Jill Stanek

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A few months back I saw the SAFE poster with the little tear-off tabs, asking for volunteers to help with the annual appeal. SAFE is an organisation which seeks to be a voice for animals in New Zealand. As they can't speak for themselves, it is only right that someone should. Being strongly opposed to animal abuse myself (after watching a video here), I tore off one of the little tear-off tabs

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Three men were walking through the jungle when they were captured by cannibals. The cannibals thought they would be fair and give the men each one chance to be let free. They were released into the jungle to pick three of one type of fruit and come back to see the chief. After this the chief would tell them what to do. The first man got three apples. The chief said, "Okay, you must swallow all

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"...I wish the whole World could see abortion the way this naive 17yr old saw abortion" - Jason Jones Jones yesterday launched a new campaign, IAmWholeLife.com with spokesperson Eduardo Verastegui (from the movie Bella), responding to the anti-life sentiments of US politicians who are supporting the Health Care Bill. The bill, without the Stupak/Nelson language will lead to the largest

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Senator Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat Senator Ben Nelson's amendment to remove Federal funding for abortions from the Health Care Bill was defeated with 54 votes against, 45 for in the Senate on Tuesday. However as Katie Connolly says, what will matter most is not Tuesday's Senate debate, but rather where the Nelson/Stupak language ends up in the reconciliation process. It was sponsor of the

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Scrubone's posted a few good jokes recently, here's the best one...One day an out of work actor named Tim is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer.Unfortunately, as soon as he starts to draw a crowd, a zoo keeper grabs him and drags him into his office. The zoo keeper explains to Tim that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla has died suddenly and the

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The Families Commission wants to extend paid parental leave to include four weeks for dads. Families Commissioner Gregory Fortuin defended the call for extended leave, “Fathers think they could do an even better job if they could spend more time with their children. The main barrier to fathers sending time with their kids is work, which illustrates the need for flexible workplaces.” Fortuin

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Abortion numbers in the UK are the highest in Europe with 219,336 terminations taking place in one year according to a new study. Britain also has the highest number of abortions for girls under 20 with 48,150 of the abortions falling into this age group... In February official figures revealed that 41.9 girls per 1,000 aged 15 to 17 became pregnant in 2007, compared with 40.9 in 2006. This comes

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Brendan Malone, Family Life International NZ In New Zealand  more than 1 in 5 pregnancies ends in an abortion, with 18,000 being committed against our silent unborn citizens every year. For too many years the pro-life movement in New Zealand has been well under the radar with the past generation of pro-lifers burnt out, largely not having passed the baton on to the next generation - and where

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Senator Ben Nelson As the Health Care Bill in the US goes through the Senate, Senators Ben Nelson (Democrat) and Orrin Hatchis (Republican) are offering an amendment based largely on the Stupak amendment which was passed on the bill as it went through the House of Congress. "My Senate amendment would ban any public funds from paying for abortions under a new health care reform bill" -

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A tourist is traveling with a guide through one of the thickest jungles in Latin America, when he comes across an ancient Mayan temple. The tourist is entranced by the temple and asks the guide for details. The guide states that archaeologists are carrying out excavations and are still finding great treasures. The tourist then queries how old the temple is. "This temple is 2,503 years old,"

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The Womens National Abortion Action Campaign (WONAAC) founded in 1973 has been under the radar recently, but has come out today in support of the Family Planning Association's (FPA) application for a licence to commit chemical abortions. WONAAC spokesperson Di Cleary stated in a press release today that, "The Minister of Health [Tony Ryall] needs to call a halt to anti-abortion fear-mongering by

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for miles ahead our future lies together, my eyes are closed, it's only you I see and side by side through every kind of weather just winding onwards always we will be I'm blind to pain, just looking towards the end and I can see our fates are intertwined whatever happens, I'll always be your friend. you know you're always there inside my mind the sky goes black, I didn't see this coming. weeds

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Scrubone is a man with a well developed dry humour. Here's a recent joke from his blog, Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn’t seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other man pulls out his cell phone and calls emergency services. He gasps to the operator: “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator in a calm, soothing voice replies: “Take it easy

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"You don't care about all the women who would die from botched-up backstreet-abortions..." Comes the tired old allegation from the sincere advocate of a woman's right to have her baby killed by abortion. In his latest article, Dr. Matthew Flannagan discusses the flaws in the famous backstreet abortion argument for abortion rights. Below is an excerpt, During fails to distinguish between an

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Children's author reporter David Gadd writes for Fairfax owned Stuff.co.nz, putting forward his version of what took place at the March for Democracy in Auckland earlier today. "Hundreds march over government inaction" reads the headline, immediately followed by the opening statement, "Up to 5,000 people marched up Auckland's Queen Street today..." Technically a gathering of this number can be

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LifeSiteNews.com reports, "The British Labour government has announced that parents will have no right to remove their children over the age of 15 from explicit "sex education" programs in schools". The new system will incorporate sex-education throughout the education system - including private schools, for children aged five and up. Until this law change parents were able to withdraw

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abortionist Josh Woodward Famous L.A. restaurant owner Josh Woodward allegedly committed an abortion against a woman and their 13wk unborn child on 19 October. Girlfriend at the time, Suzy Buckley (pictured) claims that she is not the woman in question - that the mother of the child is Josh's ex-girlfriend. Suzy has now split up with her abortionist boyfriend. The mother reported to the Los

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from the London Times Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England, there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses. It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 and coaches £5. This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one day, he just didn't turn up for work. "Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management - "we'd better phone up the

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Petitioner, Larry Baldock in 2007The petition asking "Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand" was put forward by Focus on the Family employee Sheryl Savill, however it was the initiative of ex-United Future list MP, Larry Baldock. The petition was signed by over 390,000 Kiwis and was supported by people from a wide range of backgrounds and

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ACT MP Law & Order spokesman David Garrett writes on his blog about why the death penalty would not work in New Zealand in response to an article by Cactus Kate calling for the death penalty to be introduced with recent posterboys including psychopath Clayton Weatherston who killed his girlfriend by stabbing her 216 times. As some readers will know, I have in the past (prior to my involvement

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Last Wednesday a friend and I stopped in at the National Party tent at the A&P Show to give them a rark up over their actions around the anti-smacking law. We spoke with newcomer, list MP Michael Woodhouse and Chris Auchinvole, MP for the West Coast. Woodhouse has a good grasp on ACC but we spoke primarily with Auchinvole about the smacking issue. Auchinvole stated that the reason National didn't

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This is huge news. The Stupak/Pitts amendment which ensures that federal funding for abortion will be kept out of the HealthCare Bill has passed, 240-194 in the House of Congress in the United States. Following the surprise move by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to allow a vote on the amendment, LifeNews.com reported comments on the amendment made by Douglas Johnson, the director of the

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Haven't had much humour on the blog lately, but here's some medical humour inspired by Scrubone. Jerry is recovering from day surgery when a nurse asks him how he is feeling. “I’m ok but I didn’t like the four-letter-word the doctor used in surgery,” he answered. “What did he say,” asked the nurse. “oops!” And, indicators that it might be time for you to look for a new doctor... - He keeps

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Peter Coleman (Right to Life President) and meToday I took part in my first anti-abortion protest march. Right to Life hosted a march in opposition to the Family Planning Association's (FPA) application to the Abortion Supervisory Committee for a licence to commit abortions on foetuses up to 9 weeks at their Hamilton centre. The protest went well as we walked from Cathedral Square to the Family

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Research just published (4 Nov 09) by Otago University appears to have left the pro-abortion advocates in New Zealand shaken. President of the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand (ALRANZ), Margaret Sparrow attempts to discredit the findings by questioning the integrity of the report itself, of its researchers and of the media's reporting on it. Professor David Fergusson, of the

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On Thursday 15 I looked at my Feedjit and found that someone (presumably a young woman) in Christchurch had searched for "I am 14 weeks pregnant, is this too late to have an abortion?" and she had found the post on my blog entitled What is Abortion. So I wrote about this on my Facebook wall, Facebook allows you to have a picture with your link, and so I chose the picture of the 24wk foetus who

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"I want my scalps"Goonix at The Visible Hand in Economics blog delivers a fast knock-out argument in defence of scalping - buying tickets to an event and then on-selling them at a profit. Great read.Events in high demand that have limited capacity sell out. See for example the Wellington Sevens or Toast Martinborough, which sold out in three minutes and thirteen minutes respectively. These events

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There's a lot of good music by Christian bands out there that you haven't heard about yet, and starting with this post, I'll be occasionally sharing links to free songs that you can download (legally), to introduce you to some of these sweet tunes. Have just downloaded two new sampler albums from Tooth & Nail - cheers to the Free Christian Music blog for the heads up. If you're outside the US,

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Wrote a guest post for the MandM blog, “Free hamburgers and sausage sizzle, $5 jugs of beer” read the advertisement in the student magazine CANTA, a week or so before the University of Canterbury Student Association’s (UCSA) AGM. The quorum for the AGM is 120 students as established in the constitution, and it was pitiful to read the president pleading in his weekly column for people to come

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Brendan Malone at the Semper Vita blog writes of elephants obscured by miles and miles of pink ribbon, Despite all the pink ribbons, posters and public monuments bathed in pink strobe lights after dark, there are some very large elephants standing in the breast cancer corner that no one wants to acknowledge, let alone talk about. What am I referring

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As usual, ALRANZ (9 Oct) reacts to Right to Life's action on behalf of the legal rights of the silent unborn members of our society. As usual, it is the aging Dame Margaret Sparrow as the sole spokesperson of her small and dwindling group of pro-abortion extremists who attempts to smear Right to Life spokesperson Ken Orr's drawn-out involvement in the case, Right to Life vs. Crown over the matter

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Phil Goff, Forum on the Family 2009In September I attended the Forum on the Family. Here two questions were asked of Phil Goff relating to abortion in New Zealand (video here). I asked, "Currently young girls can have their pre-born baby aborted without their parents' knowledge or consent - what will your party do about this?", however Phil ignored the specificity of the question and spoke about

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John Key meets UN Secretary, Sept 2009 (NZPA)I've thought if for a while now, but Brendan Malone over at the Semper Vita blog sums up very nicely the Prime Ministers's ulterior motive in what seemed to many like political suicide and blatantly ignoring the voice of 87.6% of his constituents.So what has the UN Security Council got to do with the NZ anti-smacking law?Well, quite simply, the UN is

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In the first Century AD the Apostle Paul whose former occupation had been hunting and killing members of an annoying new belief-system called Christianity, went out on a limb, stating that the "Good News" was foolishness - here's the context in the book of Corinthians. Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the

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Tua knocks out Cameron I will update this post later with details of the fight, however for now, below is the only link you need to watch the fight. Youtube keeps deleting copies of the video but users keep uploading new versions, so checking the search-results page will probably get you a version of the fight you can watch before Youtube yanks it down! Watch the Tua vs. Cameron fight

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The NZ Herald has confirmed the rumour that 57yr old Green MP Sue Bradford has announced her retirement after ten years in Parliament. She will be leaving Parliament at the end of the month. Bradford will be replaced by David Clendon who is currently at number 10 on the list. She stated in the Green Party's press release, “I’ll always be politically active and Parliament is just one vehicle for

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In a clever move, ACT's John Boscawen has stated that he will be writing to the Clerk of Parliament, requesting that the first reading of his Bill to ammend the Anti-Smacking law be postponed indefinitely. He's pretty much written off any chances of getting a Christmas card from Dear Leader this year, as Mr. Key's intention in his announcement that National would kill the bill at its first

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Flew up to Auckland early Friday morning for the Forum on the Family. If I had paid more attention to Whale's damning criticism of Jet Star airline, I wouldn't have bothered with them, but as it was they got us to Auckland two hours late, so got to the forum at 10am, without any coffee... Met up with irrepressible fellow blogger Dave Crampton who has done a few blog posts on the forum, Matt and

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Had my second TV interview on Monday. The first was with TV3 just prior to election '08, about Jacket-gate. TV3's reporter, Sia Aston covered the issue of voluntary student union membership today, with Roger Douglas's reform bill set to go to its first reading with Government support on Wednesday. She googled "compulsory + student + union", clicked through to my article about the corruption at

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Jim (James Lawrence) Pouillon, 63, of Owosso On 11 September 2009, Jim was murdered as he sat outside an abortion clinic, protesting the injustice being carrried out behind its doors as he had been doing for many years. The president of the pro-life group Jim was a member of described him as, "just a nice, elderly gentleman who was disabled, used an oxygen tank and wore leg braces." The murderer

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