Reformed Chicks Blabbing

Obama learns the obvious: no one wants to take the Gitmo detainees.

President Barack Obama is now confirming what many have long suspected: He will miss his January deadline to close the Guantanamo prison -- partly because he cannot persuade other nations to take the detainees.

Prisoners like Walid Abu Hijazi. The 29-year-old Palestinian is nearing his eighth year at Guantanamo even though the U.S. approved his release in February 2008. No one else has been willing to allow him, or dozens of others, into their territory.

Well, duh! If we don't want them, why would they?

That anyone is surprised by this is pretty laughable:

The slow pace of transfers has surprised many lawyers and Guantanamo critics who expected a warmer diplomatic response to Obama's announced intent to overhaul the Bush detention policy, which drew much criticism around the globe.

So, the nations didn't bow down to Obama and jump to take on the risk and expense of these prisoners even though he's not Bush? You mean it wasn't about torture after all? Shocking!

I guess it's time the left learn that you can't always get what you want even though you elected a politician who said he could get it done. Evidently, he didn't know what the heck he was talking about.

(via)

Here's the newest ad campaign that will be hitting billboards in the UK starting November 20:

The atheists believe that kids should be allowed to choose their own belief system and not have it decided for them:

As Richard Dawkins states, "Nobody would seriously describe a tiny child as a 'Marxist child' or an 'Anarchist child' or a 'Post-modernist child'. Yet children are routinely labelled with the religion of their parents. We need to encourage people to think carefully before labelling any child too young to know their own opinions, and our adverts will help to do that."

We have scheduled the launch of the billboards to take place during the same week as Universal Children's Day (20 November), which is the United Nations' "day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children". We hope the advert's message will encourage the government, media and general public to see children as individuals, free to make their own choices as soon as they are old enough to fully understand what these choices mean, and that they will think twice before describing children in terms of their parents' religion in the future.

Of course our children identify themselves with our religion, that's the family dynamic. Atheists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc. all share the values of their belief system with their children. And like Christians, atheists label their children with their religion.

Does anyone think that atheists would fairly present the religions of the world to their children and then let them decide which belief system is true?Their children will follow in the path of their parents, just as our children do until they either believe it or reject it. Christians understand that their children might not be believers because faith is personal, children have to make their own commitment to Christianity.

Christian children aren't considered believers just because their parents are Christians, as many pastors have said: God doesn't have grandchildren. They become Christians when they believe that Jesus is Lord and God raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9), until then they are part of the community of faith and if we really believe the word of God, we have to make sure we don't hamper their access to Jesus:

Mark 10:13 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

We have been commanded to teach our kids:

Ephesians 6:4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Adhering to the word of God means teaching them what we believe and why we believe it. A Christian can do no less.

Sorry, atheists! But I think it's pretty dangerous for us to abandon our kids to their own devices when it comes to a belief system. They are part of the church, it would by impossible to treat them as outsiders, not to mention unbiblical and cruel (as anyone who has taught their child they can't take communion until they are older knows).

I just saw the Biden skit on SNL and thought I'd share it with you guys in case you missed it. Pretty funny, one of their better skits.

I thought the digs on the economy were pretty funny as well but it would have been funnier if they had included the fact that the administration is either lying about how many jobs were created or saved with the stimulus funds or incredibly incompetent, including districts that don't even exist (440 of them to be exact).

The Obama administration's excuse?

Ed Pound, director of communications for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board which oversees the site, said his organization is accurately reporting the information that recipients provide. He said in some cases it appears recipients are entering the wrong congressional districts in their reports.

"People make errors, and we've found people are making errors in these reports," Pound said.

Evidently, getting the data correct isn't the director's job:

"Our job is data integrity, not data quality," he said.

Oh and don't expect them to change the data until January. For this quality of service we are paying $84 million.

And you guys wonder why we don't want these people in charge of our health care.

BTW, this is what David Obey of Wisconsin, chairman of the House committee had to say:

In a statement late Monday, Rep. David Obey of Wisconsin, chairman of the House committee, called the inaccuracies "outrageous" and said the administration owes the American public "a commitment to work night and day to correct the ludicrous mistakes."

"Credibility counts in government and stupid mistakes like this undermine it," Obey said. "We designed the Recovery Act to be open and transparent and I expect the the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, who oversees the recovery act Web site and data to have information that is accurate, reliable and understandable to the American public."

Since only 13% of women use insurance for abortions, not too many women will be impacted by the Stupak amendment:

The restrictions were introduced as an amendment by Rep. Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat who opposes abortion. They aim to ensure that no taxpayer dollars fund abortion. To that end, the government-run public insurance plan set up by the House bill wouldn't cover abortion, except in the rare cases of rape or incest, or when the pregnancy endangers the woman's life.

Individuals getting federal subsidies to buy insurance on a new health-care exchange -- a potentially large group, reaching from the working poor well into the middle class -- also would be barred from buying policies that cover abortion, unless they do so with their own money. Supporters of legal abortion fear that insurers will stop offering abortion coverage for all their customers to streamline their plans, meaning millions of women could lose benefits they currently have.

[...]

Just 13% of abortions nationwide are billed to private insurance, according to a 2001 study by the Guttmacher Institute, which supports abortion rights but is cited as a reliable source of data by both sides in the abortion debate. An unknown number of people might seek reimbursement from their insurance company after the procedure. Applying the 13% figure to the most recent abortion data available suggests that fewer than 160,000 women a year rely on insurance to cover the cost of an abortion upfront.

More than 90% of abortions take place in the first trimester, at an average cost of $413.

Those who don't have insurance now will not be losing something they have, they will just have to figure out a way to pay for it just as they have been doing.

Since only 160,000 will be impacted, why doesn't the compassionate left raise funds to pay for the abortions of those who will now have to pay for their own abortions. If feminist organizations like NOW want women to have free access to abortions, why don't they pay for them?

Not only attractive women but those over 5'7 and between 18 and 35 years old:

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.

"Seeking 500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 foot, 7 inches) tall, well-dressed but not in mini-skirts or low cut dresses," read the ad by the Hostessweb agency and quoted in Italy's Corriere dell Sera newspaper in its story.

They were told they would receive 60 euros and "some Libyan gifts." They thought it was a party but it turned out to be a recruitment to Islam. He talked for two hours without offering them refreshments and the gifts they received were the Koran and a book of Gaddafi sayings.

So, shortage of attractive women in Libya? Or new strategic mission field?

Pretty funny for the first minute and then at the end a pretty good zinger aimed at Biden: Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner BTW, I wonder what Dunn thinks about Onion Network News? Evidently, she thinks that a...

It would be protocol if he wanted to admit that America's leader was inferior to Japan's royal couple:A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon...

Uh Oh! It looks like Tim LaHaye is at it again. He's co-authoring a series of books which are kind of a prequel to his Left Behind series:GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Zondervan, a world leader in Christian...

Hypocrites! The Republicans are working to make abortion illegal but they offer abortion coverage to their employees? It goes to show you how principled this party really is, demonstrating once again why I left the party. A chagrined GOP Chairman...

Since Reuters decided to remind us that we can all contribute money to help reduce the national debt. I thought I would pass along the reminder since I figure the left are always advocating for freebies that ran up our...