Roe v. Wade, Good For Something After All

The ammendment that forbid federal funds from paying for abortions in the current healthcare bills caused a huge outcry from abortion rights groups. Go to any story on the subject and read comments and you will see dozens of comments along the lines of this infringing on their rights, no one has a right to tell them what they can or can't do with their body.

After reading this it occured to me that Roe v Wade may finally have a benefit, though nothing can make up for the millions of innocent lives it has taken to date. The Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade on the fact that making abortion illegal imposed a violation on an individuals right to privacy. The Court tells a woman that killing her unborn child is a private decision that cannot be impeeded by the government then why is it okay for the government to tell me what health insurance I have to have, tell my employer they have to provide it for me, fine me if I don't get it and possibly put me in jail any different? Where is my right to privacy where my health care decisions are concerned?

This is the perfect logical argument that liberals don't understand. The law applies to everyone, not just the liberal cause of the week. Liberal hypocrisy on the march again. If I don't have a right to make my own individual healthcare choices without government involvement than no one else should also. These health care bills should be challenged using Roe v. Wade as precedent (let them argue that one, it's a conservative win either way) and the Equal Protection Clause as the factor to consider the case.

Journalist Activism

For those of you reading this that don't know me, I am retired from the US Air Force and currently hold a contract job in the Middle East. Not a big 3 figure salary job, just a slightly higher than I would get in the states. Anyway the point is that even though I am in the Middle East I am not cut off from events back home.

Thanks to the fine men and women who work at AFN (Armed Forces Network) I get to see television and news from the states. There are downfalls such as the episodes of some TV shows being shown here for the first time right before they are released on DVD or live sporting events coming on at 2 AM. The show are provided to AFN at little or no cost and because of this there are no commercials.

Don't get to excited, the lack of commercials just mean that to get shows to fit into time slots commercials are replaced with DOD and military branch PSA's and military news stories. If I have the definition and consequences of sexual assault explained to me one more time I think I can put being an expert at preventing it on my resume.

Now to the point of my tirade...AFN only has one news channel and they share that channel by showing equal amounts of time to MSNBC, FOXNews, CNN, CBS, ABC etc... In other words a lot of info to push into 24 hours.

Watching news in this format has really highlighted the partisan nature of the media. You watch three hours of MSNBC, CNN, and CBS and then when FOXNews comes on you are really struck by the obvious lack of effort to even hide or disguise their partisanship anymore. You go from Obama is the greatest person to ever grace the rest of us with his presence in the history of mankind to Obama is Hitler and determined to destroy us all.

Whatever happened to a newscast where the reporter states "this is what the President said, this is what the House Minority Leader said, and this is the actual wording on the bill"? Those are facts that let viewers determine their own point of view. Instead the media thinks the public is too stupid and has to be led to an opinion by them because us doing so on our own might be dangerous and lead us to having viewpoints that oppose their own. When their efforts fail and people voice their opposition to media backed legislation they are branded as uneducated mobs by that same media.

This needs to stop now! Journalism is not the stage for activism. Journalism is an American way of life and is iconic in it's ability to freely inform the public of events that effect their lives. Facts and not interpretation! Objectivity, research, honesty, integrity, and trust! These are facets of being a journalist that must not be being taught in our journalism schools anymore. I am not relieving FOXNews from it's responsibility to being fair and factual but when everyone else is supporting a specific political agenda what is left for them to do. I would like to see the MSM reign in the sensationalism and opined reporting and maybe FOXNews would do the same. Either way some one tell me where to get news that isn't tilted to one party.

Letter to the White House

This is a copy of the email I sent to the informer email set up by the gestapo at the White House:

Dear Secret Police,
Just the simple fact that this email exists and the manner in which it is being used is disgusting. This is more threatening to me and my civil liberties than anything the Bush Administration tried to do, and believe me, there were a lot of things they did that I felt infringed on my freedom. Next it will be an email address for turning in people that use more fuel than the government allows or for people who aren't recycling. We may even have to turn in those selfish people who pay for and like their current coverage. Those self centered people believe that, even if your claims of being able to keep it are true, that they shouldn't have to pay for everyone else's insurance through government subsidization. Whatever happened to the America where you work hard for what you have and earned the lifestyle this country is envied for? You want to reduce the cost of health care and cover everyone? Start with Tort reform and then decrease the amount of "uninsured Americans" by enforcing our immigration laws and deporting the millions of illegal aliens that you keep including in your count. Admit this was a mistake that makes you look like the Gestapo and remove this email site and any evidence that it ever existed.

Charley Helvy

Military Voting

There was a great post on The American Thinker about military votes not being counted. The thing to take away from this is that the military is usually overwhelmingly conservative. If the votes had been counted fairly or voting easier to achieve for military members than there is a very good possibility that we wouldn't have to tolerate Al Franken right now. Here is the link:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/time_for_a_military_suffrage_m.html