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		<title>Educational Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The simple fact that America's government-run school system is broken and that educational failure is their sole legacy can't be truthfully argued against. The only arguments that can be engaged in are: why? who's to blame? and how do we fix or remake it?

It's easy to blame technology. After all, why should teachers actual teach what students can use modern technology to do for them instead?

<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="center-image" title="Education Failure" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/education-failure.jpg" alt="Education Failure" width="450" height="341" />
<strong class="highlight">But They Didn't Teach Us That In Ethnomathematics! :oops:</strong></p>

I don't think it's fair to blame technology though since the average child in America could recite chapter and verse of the Liberals' politically correct versions of history and sociology how America was wrong and how the country was based upon the evils of: racism, xenophobia, homophobia, religion, nationalism, and capitalism.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The simple fact that America&#8217;s government-run school system is broken and that educational failure is their sole legacy can&#8217;t be truthfully argued against. The only arguments that can be engaged in are: why? who&#8217;s to blame? and how do we fix or remake it?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to blame technology. After all, why should teachers actual teach what students can use modern technology to do for them instead?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="center-image" title="Education Failure" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/education-failure.jpg" alt="Education Failure" width="450" height="341" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">But They Didn&#8217;t Teach Us That In Ethnomathematics! <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_redface.gif' alt=':oops:' class='wp-smiley' /> </strong></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair to blame technology though since the average child in America could recite chapter and verse of the Liberals&#8217; politically correct versions of history and sociology how America was wrong and how the country was based upon the evils of: racism, xenophobia, homophobia, religion, nationalism, and capitalism.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><img class="left-image" style="margin-top:5px;" title="jonolan" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dark.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="36" height="36" /><em>Oh yes! Religion (except for Islam post 9/11), nationalism, and capitalism are taught as &#8220;evils&#8221; in the modern (re)education camps the Liberals demand we call schools.</em></p>
<p>That same child could also likely parrot his &#8220;teachers&#8217;&#8221; chimera that teaching math and science and testing on those subjects is racist because it can&#8217;t take into account the differences in cultural backgrounds of non-White students. He or she could also offer strikingly similar rationalizations as why all the &#8220;teaching&#8221; was done to the lowest common denominators in his or her class.</p>
<p>No. Technology may be an enabler in this educational failure but it&#8217;s not the cause. The cause is the Liberals&#8217; desire to indoctrinate children into their anti-American ideology.</p>

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		<title>Motherly Advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Motherly advice and comfort has been the centerpiece for most American children's upbringing since even before we were an independent nation. Father's may have the role models and the protectors, but it was our mothers who mostly molded us with the love and advice.

Of course, mothers and their advice aren't monolithic. Things vary from individual to individual...
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46625" title="Lunch Money" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bully-lunch-money.jpg" alt="When a Bully Wants Your Lunch Money..." width="450" height="315" />
<strong class="highlight">Motherly Advice, It Changes from Mother To Mother</strong></p>

Pretty solid advice...if the bully can understand the inference and the kid can fight. Otherwise, it's not so good. ;-) ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Motherly advice and comfort has been the centerpiece for most American children&#8217;s upbringing since even before we were an independent nation. Father&#8217;s may have the role models and the protectors, but it was our mothers who mostly molded us with the love and advice.</p>
<p>Of course, mothers and their advice aren&#8217;t monolithic. Things vary from individual to individual&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46625" title="Lunch Money" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/bully-lunch-money.jpg" alt="When a Bully Wants Your Lunch Money..." width="450" height="315" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Motherly Advice, It Changes from Mother To Mother</strong></p>
<p>Pretty solid advice&#8230;if the bully can understand the inference and the kid can fight. Otherwise, it&#8217;s not so good. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>

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		<title>Teach The Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teach the children well and most of them will grow into upstanding, patriotic Americans. This is the primary responsibility of parents but the school system must be forced - by and all means <em>without restrain</em>t, given it's anti-American liberal infection - to cease and desist doing everything that they can to undermine that effort.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-44568" title="Semper Fidelis" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/semper-fi.jpg" alt="Semper Fidelis - Always faithful, even when those they protect are faithless" width="450" height="352" />
<strong class="highlight">Salutat Perfido Fidem</strong></p>
Most often it only takes a few examples to teach children to think about their rights and how best to exercise them - if you can get to them early enough so that they haven't been polluted and suborn by Liberal oikophobia.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Teach the children well and most of them will grow into upstanding, patriotic Americans. This is the primary responsibility of parents but the school system must be forced &#8211; by and all means <em>without restrain</em>t, given it&#8217;s anti-American liberal infection &#8211; to cease and desist doing everything that they can to undermine that effort.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-44568" title="Semper Fidelis" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/semper-fi.jpg" alt="Semper Fidelis - Always faithful, even when those they protect are faithless" width="450" height="352" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Salutat Perfido Fidem</strong></p>
<p>Most often it only takes a few examples to teach children to think about their rights and how best to exercise them &#8211; if you can get to them early enough so that they haven&#8217;t been polluted and suborn by Liberal oikophobia.</p>

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		<title>Organized Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these difficult times it's not especially surprising that some youth are looking towards a life of crime instead of a job on the right side of the law. It's up to their parents to guide them in the proper direction.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43867" title="Organized Crime" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/organized-crime.jpg" alt="Organized Crime" width="450" height="398" />
<strong class="highlight">Organized Crime? Which Sort, Son?</strong></p>
Admittedly, given the current circumstances, this can be a difficult prospect, but the shame of having a child become part of the government should outweigh the problems a parent might face convincing them to take a more honorable and ethical career path such as being a crack dealer, enforcer, or bagman :lol:]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In these difficult times it&#8217;s not especially surprising that some youth are looking towards a life of crime instead of a job on the right side of the law. It&#8217;s up to their parents to guide them in the proper direction.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43867" title="Organized Crime" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/organized-crime.jpg" alt="Organized Crime" width="450" height="398" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Organized Crime? Which Sort, Son?</strong></p>
<p>Admittedly, given the current circumstances, this can be a difficult prospect, but the shame of having a child become part of the government should outweigh the problems a parent might face convincing them to take a more honorable and ethical career path such as being a crack dealer, enforcer, or bagman <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Times Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Times change and men or, at least, their perceptions and outlooks change with the shifting of the circumstances. This seems to be especially true of men who become fathers...
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43133" style="border: 1px solid white;" title="Funny But True" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/funny-truth-2.jpg" alt="Funny But True" width="450" height="544" />
<strong class="highlight">It's All A Matter Of Perspective </strong></p>
Don't get me wrong, mothers of girls have <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/society/misplaced-worry/">their worries</a> too. It's just that they're a bit less comically hypocritical. ;-)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Times change and men or, at least, their perceptions and outlooks change with the shifting of the circumstances. This seems to be especially true of men who become fathers&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-43133" style="border: 1px solid white;" title="Funny But True" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/funny-truth-2.jpg" alt="Funny But True" width="450" height="544" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">It&#8217;s All A Matter Of Perspective </strong></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, mothers of girls have <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/society/misplaced-worry/">their worries</a> too. It&#8217;s just that they&#8217;re a bit less comically hypocritical. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>K Is For Kinder?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's little or no doubt that Heckler &#38; Koch's MP-5 series of submachine guns are some of the finest weapons on the planet, especially for urban work and for vehicle crews.

I had, however, always believe that the "K" in the compact variant, the MP5K, was for <em>kurz</em> (short) as opposed to <em>kinder</em> (children). ;-)
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-41759" title="K is for Kinder?" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/k-is-for-kinder.jpg" alt="K is for Kinder? I thought it was for For Kurtz. Oh well, she's training to achieve honorable peace in her time" width="450" height="319" />
<strong class="highlight">She Training To Ensure Peace In Her Time</strong></p>
Then again, given the size, weight, balance, and control of the MP5K, I really can't think of any better weapon in this class for children's training and use. H &#038; K might want to think about changing their marketing. :lol:

<strong class="highlight">NOTE:</strong> The specific model of firearm the girl is using is the MP5K-PDW, distinguishable by its folder shoulder stock.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s little or no doubt that Heckler &amp; Koch&#8217;s MP-5 series of submachine guns are some of the finest weapons on the planet, especially for urban work and for vehicle crews.</p>
<p>I had, however, always believed that the &#8220;K&#8221; in the compact variant, the MP5K, was for <em>kurz</em> (short) as opposed to <em>kinder</em> (children). <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<strong class="highlight">She Training To Ensure Peace In Her Time</strong></p>
<p>Then again, given the size, weight, balance, and control of the MP5K, I really can&#8217;t think of any better weapon in this class for children&#8217;s training and use. H &#038; K might want to think about changing their marketing. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong class="highlight">NOTE:</strong> The specific model of firearm the girl is using is the MP5K-PDW, distinguishable by its folder shoulder stock.</p>

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		<title>Spare The Rod&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's an old axiom based upon Biblical advice that states that goes, "Spare the rod and spoil the child." It has, along with most forms of parental discipline, fallen out of favor in modern, Western society.
<blockquote><em>He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.</em>
<p style="text-align: right;">-- <a title="Bible - Proverbs 13 (King James Version)" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2013&#38;version=KJV" target="_blank">Proverbs 13:24</a>, the Bible (KJV)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<em>Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.</em>
<p style="text-align: right;">-- <a title="Bible - Proverbs 23 (King James Version)" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&#38;version=KJV" target="_blank">Proverbs 23: 13-14</a>, the Bible (KJV)</p>
</blockquote>
Let's leave the question of whether or not discipline benefit the child aside for the moment and consider a new proverb, "Spare the rod and raise a douchebag."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s an old axiom based upon Biblical advice that states that goes, &#8220;Spare the rod and spoil the child.&#8221; It has, along with most forms of parental discipline, fallen out of favor in modern, Western society.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; <a title="Bible - Proverbs 13 (King James Version)" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2013&amp;version=KJV" target="_blank">Proverbs 13:24</a>, the Bible (KJV)</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<p><em>Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; <a title="Bible - Proverbs 23 (King James Version)" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2023&amp;version=KJV" target="_blank">Proverbs 23: 13-14</a>, the Bible (KJV)</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Let&#8217;s leave the question of whether or not discipline benefit the child aside for the moment and consider a new proverb, &#8220;Spare the rod and raise a douchebag.&#8221;</p>
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<div class="highlight" style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">Spare The Rod And Raise A Douchebag</strong></div>
<p>Really! As <a title="Details - Contributors - David Hochman" href="http://www.details.com/contributors/david-hochman" target="_blank">David Hochman</a> asks and answers, is current indulgent parenting spawning a generation of <a title="Details - Are You Raising a Douchebag? Your indulgent parenting is spawning a generation of entitled hipster brats. " href="http://www.details.com/sex-relationships/marriage-and-kids/200711/are-you-raising-a-douchebag?currentPage=1" target="_blank">entitled hipster brats</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p>Let us begin with the assumption that if you are a parent, you wish for your child every advantage and opportunity. From the ergonomic high chair to that all-important first sushi experience and beyond, life should be as golden for your little one as it is for, say, Pax Jolie-Pitt.</p>
<p>But inevitably the moment arrives when all your doting and care come back on you in the form of a precocious little barb that reminds you in no uncertain terms of . . . you. It might be that his friend Jake&#8217;s eighth-birthday party was &#8220;unbelievably lame&#8221; or that &#8220;it&#8217;s weird that Brandon&#8217;s family flies first-class and we don&#8217;t,&#8221; or maybe it&#8217;s simply that &#8220;these taquitos taste like turd.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s then that you must reckon with the real possibility that your drive to make little Johnny better, smarter, and hipper has merely turned him into a douchebag.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now Mr. Hochman focuses on the evils of the Liberal urban elites, which is not <em>entirely</em> fair since the problem and problematic end results are endemic across many socio-economic strata of Western society, though the motives of the parents are likely to differ based upon economics, race, and culture. Yet it&#8217;s not particularly unfair either since these Liberal urban elites are set up as something akin to role models by the media and have the power to affect laws and policies in ways that make any form of parental discipline impossible or risky. </p>
<p>Now don&#8217;t get me wrong, with the surprisingly success of Reality TV, there&#8217;s obviously going to be a continuing job market for douchebags, but is raising your progeny to be fit for only that one job such a good idea, especially at the cost of the rest of us having to either put up with them or put them down?</p>

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		<title>In Defense Of Teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/why-the-scorn/">posted before</a> about why teachers bear the brunt of America's anger over the utter and complete failure that is euphemistically and mendaciously called the American educational system. Let us not forget though that, despite the fact that so many teachers deserve Americans' scorn and loathing, they and the government's system are not alone in culpability for this disgrace.

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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">50 Years of Failure Led To Destruction</strong></div>

50 years of "sparing the rod" has spoiled not only whole generations of children, it has has brought the nation's school system to the point of uselessness as anything other than a means to warehouse children during the day hours.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/why-the-scorn/">posted before</a> about why teachers bear the brunt of America&#8217;s anger over the utter and complete failure that is euphemistically and mendaciously called the American educational system. Let us not forget though that, despite the fact that so many teachers deserve Americans&#8217; scorn and loathing, they and the government&#8217;s system are not alone in culpability for this disgrace.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">50 Years of Failure Led To Destruction</strong></div>
<p>50 years of &#8220;sparing the rod&#8221; has spoiled not only whole generations of children, it has has brought the nation&#8217;s school system to the point of uselessness as anything other than a means to warehouse children during the day hours.</p>
<p>It is difficult to believe that America&#8217;s &#8220;educational&#8221; system could have reached the nadir that it has if the sires and dams &#8211; <em>can one truly call them parents?</em> &#8211; of the children within it had actually shouldered their responsibilities and held themselves, their children, the schools, and the government accountable rather than abrogating their duties in favor of selfish and self-centered pleasures.</p>

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		<title>Modern Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 15:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's generally considered important for parents to start educating their children in the ways of the world and accepted social mores as soon as possible. Teaching these life lesson well and early gives them the best head start in growing up to be a successful part of their society.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s generally considered important for parents to start educating their children in the ways of the world and accepted social mores as soon as possible. Teaching these life lesson well and early gives them the best head start in growing up to be a successful part of their society.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">Teach your children well&#8230;And Feed Them On Your Dreams</strong></div>
<p>Of course, while children are adaptable and normally learn easily, the overall outcome is more dependent upon the curriculum than anything else&#8230; <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<title>Abortion Has Value</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/gallery/miscellaneous/abortionist-gina.jpg' alt='Gina M. D’Andrea Weatherup' class='left-image' width="150" height="150" />Gina M. D'Andrea Weatherup of Stony Brook, NY, the Community Affairs and Advocacy Manager for <a title="Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic - Where Less-Than-Women females go to murder their unborn children - A valid target for any defensive action" href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/hudsonpeconic/" target="_blank">Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic</a> firmly believes that abortion is an intrinsically good thing as opposed to even thinking of it an a lesser of possible evils.

By her own <a title="Politics Power Sex - The Value of Abortion - Gina M. D'Andrea Weatherup" href="http://politicspowersex.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/the-value-of-abortion/" target="_blank">pride-filled admission</a> she's not even limiting this, as many do, to cases of rape or endangerment to life of the mother.

No; this infanticidal monster is talking about abortion on demand for the sake of women's convenience being a <em>good</em> thing, a <em>moral </em>choice!]]></description>
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Gina M. D&#8217;Andrea Weatherup of Stony Brook, NY, the Community Affairs and Advocacy Manager for <a title="Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic - Where Less-Than-Women females go to murder their unborn children - A valid target for any defensive action" href="http://www.plannedparenthood.org/hudsonpeconic/" target="_blank">Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic</a> firmly believes that abortion is an intrinsically good thing as opposed to even thinking of it as a lesser of possible evils.</p>
<p>By her own <a title="Politics Power Sex - The Value of Abortion - Gina M. D'Andrea Weatherup" href="http://politicspowersex.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/the-value-of-abortion/" target="_blank">pride-filled admission</a> she&#8217;s not even limiting this, as many do, to cases of rape or endangerment to life of the mother.</p>
<p>No; this infanticidal monster is talking about abortion on demand for the sake of women&#8217;s convenience being a <em>good</em> thing, a <em>moral </em>choice!</p>
<blockquote><p><em><a title="Thanks, Abortion! " href="http://www.thanksabortion.com/" target="_blank">Abortion has value</a>.  It is not just the lesser of two evils, but abortion can be a good, moral decision, in and of itself.  And I am not talking about cases of rape or life endangerment.  I’m talking about everyday women – you, maybe, or your mom, friend, sister, wife, girlfriend, roommate – who simply know that they do not want to be pregnant, and do not want to parent this child, at this time. </em></p>
<p><em>The one in three women in America who decide that abortion is right for them deserve to be recognized as people, as full moral agents, and not to be treated like children to need to be taught right from wrong.  Women deserve easy access to high-quality, affordable abortion care, without waiting periods, and without biased counseling.</em></p>
<p><em> </em><em> </em><em>Until abortion is recognized as having value in and of itself, we’re going to continue to battle the Mike Pences, Chris Smiths, and Scott Roeders of the world.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; Gina M. D&#8217;Andrea Weatherup</p>
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<p>There is one portion of this creature&#8217;s drivel that can actually agree with, that the women seeking abortions should not be treated like children who need to be taught Right from Wrong. They are, in fact, full moral agents, are fully culpable for their choices and actions, should be recognized as such by Americans, and deserve to reap the full consequences of those choices and actions.</p>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong class="highlight">Gina D&#8217;Andrea Weatherup Thinks This Is a Good, Moral Choice</strong></div>
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<p>I firmly believe and advocate that, while creatures like this Gina M. D&#8217;Andrea Weatherup are allowed to walk free among people of America and promulgate this infanticidal ideology that killing unborn babies is a good thing, our nation needs more people like Mike Pence, Chris Smith, and Scott Roeder. It <em>especially</em> needs more heroic martyrs such as Mr. Roeder who sacrificed himself in order <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/so-tiller-is-dead/">save countless babies</a> from Late-Term Abortion aka Partial-Birth Abortion.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong; I have some pity for the girls and women who have either chosen or been coerced by Planned Parenthood&#8217;s &#8220;Counselors&#8221; into choosing to abort their children as a horrible, but still lesser, evil. I don&#8217;t even have a strong hatred for Planned Parenthood as a whole; the bulk of their services being <em>necessary</em> gynecological care for poor women.</p>
<p>Things like this Gina M. D&#8217;Andrea Weatherup, however, do not deserve pity, compassion, or mercy from anyone and should not be considered just as valid targets, but as primary targets in Americans&#8217; battle for the unborn.</p>
<p class="highlight" style="text-align: center;">~*~</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t help wonder if, while in their nice, shady backyard watching their cute little daughter play, Gina and her husband, Chris &#8211; I&#8217;m <em>assuming</em> that they&#8217;re married since she <em>appended</em> his surname to her own &#8211; discuss when to have <em>that</em> talk with her. You know, the one about &#8220;the birds and the bees, <em>and the D &amp; C&#8217;s.</em>&#8221; <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I also wonder if they&#8217;ve preformulated an answer in case their daughter ever asks, <em>&#8220;How many of my brothers or sisters did you kill, mommy?&#8221;</em></p>
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<p>But she is, in a twisted sort of way, right. Abortion has value. Gina and Chris&#8217; house looks like it probably cost around 500K and abortion and her depraved manner of advocating for it helped pay for it.</p>

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