Author: Petros

Miscellany: Abortion, Global Warming Hits United Arab Emirates, and Tax Evasion (updated)

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“Obama and The Culture of death” by Miguel Guanipa, eloquently critiques Obama statements about his rescinding of the Bush abortions funding policy:  Obama is not the unifier that his campaign claimed:

By Obama’s own reckoning, the heroic efforts of those who have bravely stood in defense of innocent human life in the womb — and long endured ridicule from the press for their dissenting views — have been reduced to nothing more than pointless efforts to engage in what is ultimately a “stale and fruitless debate”. The unimaginable grief and discord this issue has wrought upon countless lives and relationships at home and abroad have been reduced to nothing more than “petty grievances”. The devout religious convictions of those  who have nurtured an abiding compassion and unwavering fidelity to the fundamental principle that every human life is endowed with inviolable dignity and inestimable worth by the creator of all life, barely rise to the status of “worn out dogmas”.

With the magic stroke of his executive pen, Obama has declared his intentions that no ground will be given and no prisoners spared.

Global Warming

Some scientists have said it’s too late to save the planet from global warming (e.g., here and here).  If so, shouldn’t we eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die?
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Banks vs. Golds

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If you compare the price for Royal Bank (RY), Canada’s largest bank, against the price of Barrick Gold (ABX), Canada and the world’s largest gold mining company, over the last two years, I think the result is startling.

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abx-vs-ry-2-years1 (Source: Yahoo Finance)

Starting about two years ago, I have as an investor/trader bought and sold alternatively ABX and RY.   I sell the one when it’s high and sooner or later the other drops and I buy that.  I’ve found that buy and hold, which I do with a part of my portfolio, has been an entirely unsuccessful strategy since I started investing about four years ago (see this article which confirms what I’m saying).  However, my alternate buying and selling of RY and ABX has helped me to offset the losses that I’ve incurred in the buy and hold part of the portfolio.
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The Sun so Hot, I Froze to Death, O Suzanna don't you Cry

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The Associated Press (Yahoo) reports 20 dead from snow storm.  Another victim of global warming is a 93 year-old man who froze to death in his apartment in Bay City.  In fact, global warming is killing people outside and inside their apartments in Anchorage (my home town), Duluth, Hesse, Greenwich Village, Normal, Val d’Isere, etc.

The March of the Penguins movie showed that emperor penguins must work very hard to lay and incumbate their eggs and feed their young on solid ground, marching hundreds of miles to get food at sea, and still many die because of the extreme cold in Antarctica, and yet global warming is going to cause their race to become extinct.  The Washington Post writer Will Durham writes:  “Emperor penguins, the species of these aquatic flightless birds featured in the Oscar-winning 2005 documentary ‘March of the Penguins,’ breed on Antarctic sea ice and dive from the sea ice to feed on krill, fish and squid.”  I guess Durham has never actually seen the film, since the whole point of the penguin march was that they lay their eggs on solid ground not ice and therefore have to walk hundreds of miles to get food.  Let this be a lesson to those who wish to cite a book in a research paper but have never themselves read the book.  It is a clear example of journalistic malpractice that we see in the media on an increasingly regular basis.

Exporting death

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Reuters:

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday will lift restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counselling abroad, reversing a policy of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush, an administration official said.

When asked by Rick Warren when life begins, Obama said he didn’t know; Steven Ertelt reports (Sept 6, 2008):

When asked during the forum at Saddleback Church, Obama said last month “that whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, you know, is above my pay grade.”

In an interview with ABC News’ “This Week” program on Sunday, Obama said he meant to say that he thinks the scientific question of the beginning of human life is a theological one that he can’t answer.

“What I intended to say is that, as a Christian, I have a lot of humility…all I meant to communicate was that I don’t presume to be able to answer these kinds of theological questions,” he said.

So as a Christian, Mr. Obama has humility.  But wouldn’t humility lead one to err on the side of caution?  If he doesn’t know when life begins, wouldn’t it be safer in the sight of God not to kill innocent babies in their mother’s wombs?  Or does Obama by his actions today, just as his past voting record, show that he does not fear God? Now his policies contribute to abortions anywhere in the word where people receive US subsidies.

Cf. americanthinker.com and this comment from Lee:

Inside the womb is becoming the most dangerous place on earth. More Americans die here daily than have been killed for the entire campaign in Iraq. Since abortion mills specifically target minorities, I find it sad that so many black people support the planned genocide of their own. Look at where centers are located and the demographics of people they “service.” And cry for 30 million who were never given the chance that Obamas mother gave him.

President George Bush's legacy in Africa: The Fight against AIDS

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Former Senate Majority leader (Republican, Tennessee), Bill Frist, M.D., has written, “Commentary: Bush saved 10 million lives“, on George Bush’s fight against HIV and AIDS in Africa.

The bottom line is: George Bush is a healer.

First, a surprise proclamation came on January 29, 2003.

I was in the first row in the House chamber when three quarters through his State of the Union address, the president boldly said: “I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years … to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean” and “lead the world in sparing innocent people from a plague of nature.”

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