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The Madness Within: I spy with my eye a pattern of genius.
Just for fun, I found this thing that lists famous people with epilepsy. My favorites include:
Hugo Weaving – Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is a film and stage actor, as well as a voice actor. Weaving was born in Nigeria. He spent his childhood in South Africa and then moved to the United Kingdom in his teens. He moved to Australia in 1976, where he attended Sydney’s Knox Grammar School. Weaving later graduated from Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1981. When he was 13 years old, Weaving was diagnosed with epilepsy. Due to the prospect of seizures, Weaving does not drive cars. He has never married and lives with his partner Katrina Greenwood.
Sir Isaac Newton – (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) A very important scientist who is responsibe for founding the three laws of motion along with studies concerning Universal Gravitation. He studied many scientific disciplines but mainly stayed inside the field of mechanics. It is said that Newton had mainly discovered gravity by examining a falling apple, that would have been one of the major reasons for him to start his researches in the subject. Was thought by many a product of psychosis but he may just have been in his right mind.
George Tiller…I’d Like to Thank the Academy
Planned Parenthood has given George Tiller it’s highest award… “Outstanding Individual Contribution to Sexual and Reproductive Health.”
According to Life Site News:
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) – The International Federation of Planned Parenthood Foundation gave slain late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller its highest award over the weekend. The international abortion business honored Tiller posthumously in Washington months after he was shot and killed in his Kansas church.
Planned Parenthood gave Tiller its Medal of Honor for “Outstanding Individual Contribution to Sexual and Reproductive Health.”
According to a Wichita News report, Tiller’s widow Jeanne accepted the award on her late husband’s behalf.
Alexander Sanger, grandson of Margaret Sanger, the woman who founded Planned parenthood and who has come under fire for having racist views for doing so, presented Tiller with the award.
And just what did Mister Tiller do, to merit such an honor?
“For 30 years, George Tiller stood up to protests, harassment and assaults, even being wounded some years ago in a shooting,” Alexander Sanger said. “He kept his clinic doors open to give a choice to women who never imagined they would ever need it — women with a wanted pregnancy that had gone terribly awry as it progressed.”
Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave…
“You’ve heard that this is all going to mean government funding of abortion. Not true,” he told at least 140,000
people. “These are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation – President Barack Obama
Schakowsky said the legislation will not reduce Medicare benefits, will not lead to “rationing” of health care, and will not divert federal dollars to abortions. (From the Daily Herald)
“…the bill clearly spells out that no federal funds can be used to pay for abortions.” Nancy Pelosi on a “factsheet”
PolitiFact: “Members Went To Great Pains To Include An Amendment To Ensure That Federal Money Is Not Used For Abortion Coverage.” According to PolitiFact.com, “In fact, in a key version of the bill – the one passed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee – members went to great pains to include an amendment to ensure that federal money is not used for abortion coverage.” [PolitiFact.com, 8/7/09]
Reaaaaaaaalllllly????? Then what exactly would this be?
IN THE WOMB (Part 1)
The National Geographic Series, “In The Womb” is now available on Youtube. I’ll be posting each of the nine parts over the next week and a half. Nothing does more to show the humanity of the unborn, than ultrasound images. Join me on this journey and see for yourself that life BEGINS, “In The Womb”.
NOVENA of BLESSED MARGARET CASTELLO ~~~ DAY ONE
We’ve been talking a lot about sacrificing for the good of the world and to offset evil…we talked about it on the camping trip, and then again on the “A Child Shall Lead Them” post…so I thought it would be appropriate for all of us to get praying…Please join us in saying this novena. If you want to add a special intention, just do it in the comments. Every day, for nine days, another prayer will go up. All you have to do is read it. You could also, if you want, make some small sacrifice during the day.
“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.”
F.B. Meyer
First Day:
O Blessed Margaret of Castello,
In embracing your life just as it was,
You gave us an example of resignation
To the Will of god.
In so accepting God’s Will,
You knew that you would grow in virtue,
Glorify God, save your own soul,
And help the souls of your neighbors.
Obtain for me the grace,
To recognize the will of God,
In all that may happen to me in my life,
And so resign myself to it.
Obtain for me also the special favor,
Which I now ask,
Through your intercession with God.
BLESSED MARGARET of CASTELLO
BLESSED MARGARET OF CASTELLO
by Madeline Pecora Nugent, SFO
It’s a pretty safe bet that, had Blessed Margaret of Castello been conceived in the 1990’s, we would never know about her. Why? Because her parents would have chosen prenatal diagnosis and aborted her.
Margaret’s parents were members of the Italian nobility. Her father Parisio was Captain of the People, a totally fearless and highly capable soldier. He had captured the mountaintop castle of Metola and instantly became a national hero, along with the awards and pride such recognition brings. As a reward for his valor, Parisio was given the castle and its extensive estate to which he proudly brought his young bride Emilia. Parisio and Emilia enjoyed the adulation of the common people and the easy life of wealth.
Everything was going wonderfully for the upwardly mobile young couple, when these two “beautiful people” conceived their first child. Of course, their child would be a perfectly formed, perfectly behaved infant whom they could show off to friends, family, and neighbors. Since prenatal diagnosis did not exist in those days, the couple did not know that their first born daughter was a badly deformed dwarf until they laid eyes on her at birth.
Emilia and Parisio were totally shocked. How could this happen to them? Where did this ugly child come from? They could not even bear to look at her, so how could anyone else? And what if the country heard about this monstrosity being born to the most important couple in the area?
They decided to hide the child forever and tell no one about her, so they gave the baby to a trusted servant to care for secretly.
“What is the child’s name?” the servant asked.
“It has no name,” came the reply.
Who will stand up for the disabled?
As I was reading this story all I could think is why are they thinking this is such a horrible thing? We say they are just a choice, right? We say it is okay for a woman to abort a wanted pregnancy because she finds out her child isn’t perfect. So, why is using them for biological weapons so shocking? It’s just the next natural step for the circular slippery slope, isn’t it? Or perhaps once
people realize these people deserve a chance to live based on this emotionally charged story we will start climbing up that slope instead of continuing the decline. One can only hope.
But among the accounts (from military soldiers that escaped N. Korea) they carried with them is one of the most shocking yet to emerge — namely the use of humans, specifically mentally or physically handicapped children, to test North Korea’s biological and chemical weapons.
"If you are born mentally or physically deficient, says Im, the government says your best contribution to society… is as a guinea pig for biological and chemical weapons testing."
The former military captain says it was in the early 1990s, that he watched his then commander wrestle with giving up his 12-year-old daughter who was mentally ill.
The truth about the uninsured
I saw these statistics this morning on the Fox News program Fox and Friends and have spent most of the morning verifying their numbers. I verified this information at the National Center for Policy Analysis(NCPA), Business and Media Institute, The Census Bureau, Employment Policies Institute, and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Whew. 
So here it is:
We hear it all the time, that there are approximately 47 Million people uninsured. This number is true, but extremely misleading. The problem is they don’t tell you what qualifies as an uninsured person. The CBO report has the definition of uninsured as “uninsured at some point in time”. This is how long a person actually goes without insurance. If a person switches jobs and there is a 1 week gap between the Cobra insurance ending and the new jobs insurance beginning, that counts as one of the millions of uninsured.
All must provide Abortions
It appears that some hospital are forgetting their federal laws. Ending a resolution wrote by GW Bush does not change federal law and these hospitals are about to get a lesson in this.
First – the laws. Title 42 Chapter 6A Subchapter VIII section 300a-7 and Title 42 Chapter 6A Subchapter I Part b section238n are just two of the federal statues that prohibit discrimination against healthcare workers if they refuse to participate in an abortion or any other procedure that violates their religious practices.
Second – the story:
Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, a nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, was instructed to assist in a late second-trimester abortion for a woman 22 weeks into her pregnancy. The hospital had known of the nurse’s religious objections to abortion since she was hired in 2004.
Cenzon-DeCarlo reminded her supervisors of her religious objections, but was told that if she did not participate, she would be charged with “insubordination and patient abandonment,” which could result in disciplinary action and the possible loss of her job and nursing license.
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