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Defanging Pro-Life Rhetoric: Propaganda

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  What do Pro-Lifers call a Stillborn baby? " Mission Accomplished !" Top Articles CLICK TO READ 'F*** what Ted Cruz has to say about anything, especially gay marriage': A word to live by The Fetishization of the Fish Stage of Human Development is neither Pro-Life, nor Christian. Nothing can be Pro-Life that ends at Baby's first breath and ignores the Already Born. According to Genesis, Adam did not live until God filled him w/ the Breath of Life. Exactly at the point Pro-Lifers cease to care. These are good tools and like the best propaganda, ARE TRUE! Clinics have been bombed, doctors assassinated, and women terrorized over the Amniotic Fluid breathing Fish Stage of Human Development. Further, what did Christ say? Feed the hungry, give shelter to the homeless, see to the sick and the imprisoned. Treat the lowest, weakest, most vulnerable among you as if they were Christ himself! Now that's PRO-LIFE! Do we see "Christians" advocating for this? No? H...

It's the Oil Prices Stupid!: Inflation

So much talking about how we are replaying the 1980s, economically we are back in the 1970s. They called the 1970s the Age of Limitations. Reagan ran on rolling back the Welfare State, blaming it for the runaway inflation and for permitting the survival of the Unworthy and Criminal. Not helping matters was the Father of the Welfare State, LBJ was conducting the Vietnam War like his own personal game of Risk in the basement w/out raising taxes to offset the economic drain of dropping more munitions on a tiny South Asian country than had been dropped on all sides in Europe during WWII. Ask anyone what else they remember about the late 1970s, they will tell you spiraling gas prices and gas lines from the OPEC (Oil Producing Eastern Countries) Oil and Gas Embargo. Maybe at first blush the two may not seem connected, the Embargo and the Inflation of the 1970s. Maybe I would have thought so too if I hadn't worked in a grocery store deli for entirely too long. I became aware of a pattern....