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Baby Killing Is Fine. Yearbook Photos Are the Problem
Townhall.com ^ | February 6, 2019 | Ben Shapiro,

Posted on 02/06/2019 12:22:41 AM PST by Kaslin

Last week, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was hit with a shocking blast from the past: a photo on his medical school yearbook page of a man in blackface and another man in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. Northam quickly apologized for the photo, then said he wasn't in the photo and then admitted he had once worn blackface and dressed up as Michael Jackson for a dance contest. He nearly moonwalked at a press conference before his wife gave him a look that could curdle milk.

For this sin -- the sin of an old, disgusting, racially insensitive photo -- Northam now finds his political career on the skids. As of this writing, he's hanging on by his fingernails, even as his lieutenant governor struggles with dicey sexual assault allegations.

The same week that Northam found himself in hot water, he endorsed a Virginia bill that would have broadened the ability of women to obtain an abortion up to the point of birth. Virginia Delegate Kathy Tran, a sponsor of the bill, stated in defense of her legislation that women would be able to obtain an abortion during labor. Northam then defended the bill, adding that if a baby were born alive during such an abortion -- he assumed that the abortion would be due to "severe deformities" or "a fetus that's not viable" -- then the baby could be "kept comfortable" while the family and the doctor decide its fate.

Even in the least appalling reading of his comments, Northam clearly endorsed infanticide. The only question is whether he endorsed the murder of fully born children.

Yet these comments did not merit his ouster. In fact, they didn't even merit an argument inside the Democratic Party about the extremism of the pro-choice position. Last month, Democrats in the state of New York cheered wildly for a law that opened the floodgates to third-trimester abortion, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordering state sites to be illuminated in pink in celebration of the potential murder of the unborn. The Democratic governor of Rhode Island endorsed a similar bill; Democrats in Vermont attempted to pass an even more extreme bill that would enshrine abortion as a "fundamental right" for the entirety of the pregnancy period.

All of this is apparently less controversial than a three-decades-old photograph showing a medical student in blackface. Endorsing the killing of babies during dilation today -- not 30 years ago, not 30 weeks ago -- is considered less of a faux pas than racially offensive idiocy during the Reagan presidency.

The morality of our nation may be skewed beyond repair. Northam certainly deserves criticism for his yearbook stupidities, and for his even more idiotic response. But if the American people are more consumed with the consequences of insulting costumes from 1984 than the murder of the unborn today, we deserve everything we have coming to us.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: abortion; california; coonman; dukeuniversity; infanticide; justinfairfax; meredithwatson; metoo; northam; ralphnortham; vanessatyson; virginia

1 posted on 02/06/2019 12:22:41 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

[ Baby Killing Is Fine. Yearbook Photos Are the Problem ]

That’s for sure.


2 posted on 02/06/2019 12:28:46 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Kaslin

I’m thinking that the person who released the photo sat on it until recently because he thought that no ones life should be blown up by a 35 year old mistake. But once Northam endorsed infanticide he changed his mind. In other words, the prevailing theory that the photo was released to distract from infanticide is wrong. It was released because of infanticide.


3 posted on 02/06/2019 12:56:36 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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To: Kaslin

Exactly; Shapiro nails it, as usual.


4 posted on 02/06/2019 1:30:01 AM PST by JustTheTruth
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To: jalisco555
In other words, the prevailing theory that the photo was released to distract from infanticide is wrong. It was released because of infanticide.

You are missing a critical point:

I could release recent footage of, e.g., Hillary with her face all black with burnt cork, crying "I don't know nothing' about birthin' no babies, Miz Scawlett!" for any number of different reasons - but the Mainstream Media wouldn't make a big to-do about it.

The question is not, "Why was it released?" (that question deals only with the motivations of a lone individual) but rather, "Why have the MM flooded the airwaves with it?"

Regards,

5 posted on 02/06/2019 1:59:21 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Kaslin

The open and willful killing of babies is the flash point of the next civil war.

Last night, the baby killers in white solidified in my mind how free women will murder their way to the top and that the woman is responsible for the murder of their child in utero as much as the doctor who performs the murder.

It is as simple as that, folks.

JoMa


6 posted on 02/06/2019 2:11:31 AM PST by joma89
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Ambitious politicians like Northam Cuomo know that to keep their pro-abort bona fides burnished,
they have to keep throwing more and more raw, red meat to the snarling pro-abort types.

They know what's coming next.....and so do we.

Nobelists Crick left, and Watson --- discoverers of the double helix.

It was Dr Crick who suggested that newborn babies NOT be issued birth certificates
until three days after birth ...........until they have passed a "quality evaluation test."

NOTE WELl: No mention of abortion----this is flat-out infanticide.

7 posted on 02/06/2019 3:19:00 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: jalisco555

Bingo! The Dems are using the #MeToo meme to pull Northam off the stage so his sociopathic theme of “It’s OK to kill babies” gets less air time. But this is running afoul of the LT Governor’s problem with unwanted sexual advances of 2004. So, the WaPo, as the supposed arbitrator of all truth is busy saying “Nothing to see here.”


8 posted on 02/06/2019 3:36:22 AM PST by Pecos (These are the times that try menÂ’s souls)
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To: All
Let's see....who else might be inconvenient to the left, who might the left consider expendable?

Obama Declares War On ‘Extremism’ – Are You An ‘Extremist’
FR Posted 1/13/15 by seekandfind

A list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be “extremists” or “potential terrorists” in official U.S. government documents. This list will really give you a good idea of what Barack Obama means when he uses the word “extremist”. Each of these 72 items is linked (at web site). As you can see, this list potentially includes most of the country…

OBAMA'S LIST OF EXTREMISTS wERE LISTED IN OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING THE DEPT OF DEFENSE

Those that talk about “individual liberties,” that advocate for states’ rights, that want “to make the world a better place,” that are interested in “defeating the Communists”

Those that believe “that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations.” Anyone that holds a “political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable.” Anyone that possesses an “intolerance toward other religions.” Those that “take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals”

“Anti-Gay,” “Anti-Immigrant,” “Anti-Muslim,”“The Patriot Movement,” “Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians”

Members of the Family Research Council, the American Family Association, Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol, the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the Tennessee Freedom Coalition, the Christian Action Network, citizens networks.

Those “opposed to the New World Order,” engaged in “conspiracy theorizing”, those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States “are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the ‘North American Union’”

Anyone opposed to Agenda 21, anyone concerned about FEMA camps, that “fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations,” the militia movement, sovereign citizen movement, that “don’t think they should have to pay taxes”

Anyone that “complains about bias,” that “believes in government conspiracies, that “is frustrated with mainstream ideologies,” that “visits extremist websites/blogs,” that “establishes website/blog to display extremist views," that “attends rallies for extremist causes,” that “exhibits extreme religious intolerance," that is personally connected with a grievance,” that “suddenly acquires weapons,” that “organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology”

Those that have “a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack,” that possess “a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism,” that would “impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)” that would “insert religion into the political sphere,” that would “seek to politicize religion,” that have “supported political movements for autonomy.”

Anyone that is “anti-abortion.”

Anyone that is “Right-wing" including “Returning veterans.” Dept of Defense documents indicate Obama wanted homes of returning veteran earched. Those concerned about “illegal immigration,” those that “believe in the right to bear arms.” Anyone that is engaged in “ammunition stockpiling”

Anyone that exhibits “fear of Communist regimes,” those that talk about “the New World Order” in a “derogatory” manner.

Those that have a negative view of the United Nations, that are opposed “to the collection of federal income taxes,” that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr, that display the Gadsden Flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”)

Those that believe in “end times” prophecies, including Evangelical Christians

9 posted on 02/06/2019 3:44:15 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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The mask hiding the Left’s genocidal rage slipped during the print/electronic lynching of Covington Catholic’s high school boys.

And it was frightening.

Lefty lynch mobs called for assorted horrors even the KKK could not envision:

<><> feeding teenage boys head-first into wood chippers,
<><> locking the boys into the school and burning the school to the ground.

The obedient media (print, broadcast, social) unwittingly exposed the wrath of the Left’s Orwellian hate days after the factual record was corrected.

SHOULD BE NOTED: The Left’s Grand Wizards waged their knee-jerk War of Hate without the familiar white hoods and capes.


10 posted on 02/06/2019 3:47:19 AM PST by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: alexander_busek

“The question is not, “Why was it released?” (that question deals only with the motivations of a lone individual) but rather, “Why have the MM flooded the airwaves with it?””

Very good point. It isn’t a nutcase conspiracy theory that journalists have coordinated with, and conspired with, the Democrats. There was the Journal-list (however it was spelled) website, the debate questions released ahead of time to Hillary and the coordinated talking points when every major media outlet uses the exact same phrasing on some political point. People won’t pay for propaganda, as evidenced by the firing of over 2000 “journalists” this week. (As if someone with a degree in gender studies who writes feature articles on her vagina can be considered a “journalist.”)


11 posted on 02/06/2019 4:19:18 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Kaslin

Bookmark


12 posted on 02/06/2019 4:26:24 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Liz

No big deal, the babies will just be “released to elsewhere.” /sarc


13 posted on 02/06/2019 4:38:53 AM PST by ReagansShinyHair
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To: Kaslin

I think in 10 years, the outrage will be the guys who wore a female outfit as a joke in a fraternity skit, sports arena or Halloween party. Don’t run for office if you did any of these things in the future.


14 posted on 02/06/2019 5:31:30 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Kaslin

The flap over the photo is fake. It was concocted as a distraction from the governor’s proposal to allow baby killing.

The dems want to get rid of him because a future Republican opponent can use the baby killing episode against him.

Dems = party of death.


15 posted on 02/06/2019 6:26:38 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: Kaslin

Yep! Heck, the murdering of unborn and partially born babies is a mark of honor among Democrats. They are not ashamed of it. They do not deny it. They proudly embrace it.


16 posted on 02/06/2019 6:29:45 AM PST by sport
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To: sport

The man is not only a governor, he is a physician

How can he possibly justify his statement with his Hippocratic oath?


17 posted on 02/06/2019 6:34:48 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: bert

I know.


18 posted on 02/06/2019 6:53:13 AM PST by sport
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