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Politics : How Quickly Can Obama Totally Destroy the US? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (2237)	4/11/2013 5:06:44 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Shades of Benghazi: State Department changes story on Afghanistan blast that killed diplomat .................................................................................... By Shaun Waterman The Washington Times Thursday, April 11, 2013 Enlarge Photo Anne Smedinghoff, The State Department has acknowledged that five U.S. personnel killed in Afghanistan, including 25-year-old diplomat Anne Smedinghoff, were on foot when they were attacked by a suicide bomber, and not in an armored vehicle, as officials had told bereaved relatives earlier this week. The violent deaths of U.S. diplomatic personnel — and the State Department’s changing account of how they died — harken back to the debacle in Benghazi, Libya, where Islamist extremists killed four Americans in assaults on the U.S. diplomatic compound on Sept. 11. “We are able to clarify at this point that they were in a walking movement from the [ Provincial Reconstruction Team’s base] down to the school down the road,” State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters Wednesday. Mr. Ventrell said the school was “a short distance away” — reports on the ground say 200 yards — and that all the U.S. civilians in the group were wearing personal protective gear. The five killed — Ms. Smedinghoff; a civilian U.S. government contractor who has not been named; and soldiers Staff Sgt. Christopher M. Ward, 24, of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Spc. Wilbel A. Robles-Santa, 25, of Juncos, Puerto Rico; and Spc. Delfin M. Santos Jr., 24, of San Jose, Calif. — were all members of a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) who were taking a U.S. donation of books to the local school in Qalat. The governor of Zabol Province, Mohammad Ashraf Nasery, the apparent target of the attack, was in an armored car and was unhurt in the blast, although three of his bodyguards were injured, according to reports over the weekend. Ms. Smedinghoff is the first U.S. diplomat to die in Afghanistan in 11 years of U.S.-led war and counterinsurgency there, and the incident is the worst so far this year in terms of U.S. casualties. Mr. Ventrell added that four other State Department employees had been injured, and named one of them — the most seriously hurt — as Kelly Hunt, a public affairs officer who had been medevaced to Germany Two others were being treated at an allied medical facility in Afghanistan, and a third had been released. “Part of the initial confusion came about because there were reports in the media about the local governor and his convoy,” Mr. Ventrell said about the changing State Department account. “Some of our initial reporting also indicated that, and that’s why we weren’t able to clarify right away. So our initial read on it was different.” He declined to comment when questioned about reports the team had become lost before being caught in the blast. “In terms of all the rest of what happened that day, it’s still under investigation, so I don’t have a lot of other details to provide,” Mr. Ventrell said. Ahmad Zia Abed, a reporter for Shamshad TV, told McClatchy News that about a dozen civilians, including media and diplomatic workers, plus their military escorts, were in the PRT party, which was taking a U.S. donation of children’s books to a school. But when they got there, a man at the gate said they had the wrong building, and they retraced their steps to the American base. As they reached it, the blast caught them, according to the McClatchy account. In the Benghazi attacks, U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, State Department officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALS Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were killed when a group of heavily armed extermists overran the U.S. diplomatic compound and a nearby CIA annex during eight hours of conflict. Read more: washingtontimes.com r

To: MJ who wrote (2237)	4/11/2013 5:07:37 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

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To: MJ who wrote (2237)	4/11/2013 5:33:48 PM
From: joseffy	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16547

Ellen DeGeneres and same sex 'marriage' kiss of death for JC Penney ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, April 11, 2013 Life News ^ Plenty of companies have argued that natural marriage is " bad for business"--but they'll have a tough time persuading J.C. Penney. After a series of radical decisions, the retailer is struggling to survive a 25 percent drop in sales. It started in 2011 when the company hired Ellen DeGeneres, a vocal proponent of same-sex "marriage" as its spokesperson. The choice drew fire from organizations like the American Family Association (AFA) because it was a departure from the store's longstanding values. When AFA's One Million Moms complained, J.C. Penney's new CEO, Ron Johnson, stubbornly dug in his heels. Then, on Mothers' Day, the company shocked customers with a blatant endorsement of homosexuality in an ad that featured two moms--followed by a two-dads ad for Fathers' Day. Coupled with an overhaul of the stores' pricing system, the stock never recovered. Now, months after the experiment failed, J.C. Penney has fired Johnson and replaced him with the former CEO, Myron Ullman. Hinting that the problems are more political than the media is reporting, Ullman said bluntly, Whether the retailer will learn from its mistakes is yet to be seen. But J.C. Penney's freefall should serve as a warning to other companies who are itching to jump on the same-sex bandwagon. Pandering to those who want to redefine marriage (and the rest of society with it) may earn you a pat on the back from the Human Rights Campaign, but in the long term, it's bad policy. Americans want corporate neutrality in the culture wars, and when they don't find it, they will go elsewhere.

To: MJ who wrote (2237)	4/11/2013 8:20:24 PM
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To: MJ who wrote (2237)	4/14/2013 2:18:39 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

Gosnell Slit Necks of Born Babies in Front of Teenager; Told Assistant: 'That's What You Call a Chicken With Its Head Cut Off' April 13, 2013 By Terence P. Jeffrey cnsnews.com [Editor's note: This story includes a graphic photograph, taken from a grand jury report, that shows a murdered baby with its spinal chord severed.] (CNSnews.com) - According to a Pennsylvania grand jury, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the wealthy Philadelphia abortionist now on trial for seven counts of murdering babies who had survived his late-term abortions, repeatedly sliced the necks of born babies in front of a teenage employee, and once told his long-time assistant (the teenager's mother) that a writhing born baby whose neck he had just severed was like a "chicken with its head cut off." "Ashley Baldwin also saw Gosnell slice the neck of moving and breathing babies," said the report of the grand jury that recommended charging Gosnell with multiple counts of murder. Baldwin's mother, Tina, worked for nine years as Gosnell's assistant. The teenager herself went to work for the abortionist when she was a 15-year-old high school sophomore. Baby Boy B, with slit neck, discovered by police at the abortion office of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia, Pa. (Photo: Grand Jury Report.) "Although Ashley was just a teenager and still in high school, Gosnell had her assisting with procedures, performing ultrasounds, intravenously sedating patients, and assisting patients as they delivered in Gosnell’s absence," said the report. "Gosnell claimed to her mother that allowing the teen to essentially practice medicine was legal, through a 'grandfather clause' which permitted him to train workers and avoid certification requirements. Ashley worked as much as 50 hours a week, into the early morning hours, while a full-time high school student." On multiple occassions, this teenage girl saw the abortionist slit the necks of living babies after they had been born. "When asked how many times Ashley had observed babies being delivered that were moving or breathing or crying and the doctor cut the neck, she answered: 'Most of the second tris that were over 20 weeks,'" said the report. "She said this happened probably dozens of times, maybe more. She described at least 10 babies as big enough to buy clothes for, to dress, and to take care of." In her grand jury testimony, Ashley Badlwin had the following exchange: Question: "And what happened to those ten babies that came out from their mother, that were big enough that you could put clothes on and take home and take care of, that moved around, what did you see happen to them?" Ashley Baldwin: "He killed them." Question: "Who killed them? Ashley Baldwin: "Doc." Question: "How did he kill them?" Ashley Baldwin: "He cut the back of the neck." The teenager told the grand jury that Gosnell told her this was normal. Ashley's mother, Gosnell's longtime assistant, told the grand jury about a gruesome remark Gosnell made after severing the neck of a baby that had survived one of his abortions. "Tina Baldwin," said the report, "told the jurors that Gosnell once joked about a baby that was writhing as he cut its neck: 'That’s what you call a chicken with its head cut off.'" The grand jury charged both Tina Baldwin and Gosnell with corrupting the morals of a minor for their treatment of Ashley. "We charge Gosnell and Tina Baldwin, his employee, with corrupting the morals of a minor," said the report. "Gosnell hired Tina’s 15-year-old daughter as a staff member. She was required to work 50-hour weeks, starting after school until past midnight, during which she was exposed to the full horrors of Gosnell’s practice. Bad enough that he expected grown-ups to do it."