He failed to acknowledge that his Neo-con policies (invade Iraq, destabilize multiple Arab governments, promote Arab democracy) led to this mess. He can blame Obama, and Obama shares in the blame, but the rest of the world knows the people who started the refugee crisis in 2003.
WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, under intense pressure from conservatives in his party, announced on Friday that he would resign one of the most powerful positions in government and give up his House seat at the end of October, as Congress moved to avert a government shutdown.
Mr. Boehner, who was first elected to Congress in 1990, made the announcement in an emotional meeting with his fellow Republicans on Friday morning.
It will be up to the majority of the members of the House now to choose a new leader, and the leading candidate is Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader, who is widely viewed more favorably by the more conservative members. The preferred candidate among many Republicans, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, has said he does not want the job.
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Mohler on the pope’s address to Congress (from podcast this morning, transcript should be on his website): “Pope’s Congress address fails to mention Jesus, affirms leftward leading of Roman Church”
“All of the issues at the center the Reformation in the 16th century continue until today and as the reformers we have to understand that nothing less than the gospel is at stake. We are called to genuinely love our neighbors and many of us will have Catholic friends, who as I said, are looking at the papacy in completely different terms.” — Mohler
““The government of Quebec, which is planning to impose euthanasia upon its people starting on December 10, has basically told the doctors, You will do it,” Schadenberg explains. “This is a very concerning situation because they’re not saying to the doctors, Oh, we will send somebody and we will [have it done]. No, they’re saying, You will do this. This will be done. This is the law. If someone asks for it, you will carry it out.”
In addition, the health minister has a message to hospice programs that help people who are dying from natural causes.
“[The government is telling them if they’re] not going to participate in euthanasia, then [it] will lessen the funding … to palliative care centers who refuse to participate,” he tells OneNewsNow.
“So therefore when your mother or your father is needing good care as they’re nearing death, these doctors and nurses who are providing good care will have a tighter budget because they refuse to kill your mother or your father.”
Mumsee, I never said it was difficult to get a job as a nurse because I would have to perform abortions. I have said at different times that I have had a hard time finding a job, but that has been for various reasons. Only once was I in a job interview for an Operating Room position in which I was told that abortions were performed in one operating room, for one morning of one day a week, by one doctor, and I would likely, in the course of my job, be assigned to that room. I said I could not, the interviewers accepted my statement graciously and that was that. I ended up going to Africa instead. However, I was trained to work in the Operating Room in a hospital which did not perform abortions. Not every healthcare facility participates in abortions and not every doctor or nurse performs them – and Supreme Court rulings have established that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate.
On the article in question, earlier this year, the lawyers of some private citizens who wished to end their lives medically, argued successfully before Canada’s Supreme Court that they had the right to do so. The Court agreed that they did in cases where their suffering (one of the plaintiffs had ALS) could not otherwise be mitigated, giving the government one year to change the law against assisted suicide. The government did nothing – this is an election year. The idea of euthanasia is especially popular among the Baby Boomer generation, whom having lived on their own terms (think Sexual Revolution, no-fault divorce, abortion, etc.), now wish to die on their own terms. That isn’t just me talking – there is a big media conglomerate called Zoomer Media which caters to the Baby Boomers and is popular with them, and their media outlets were enthusiastic over the ruling.
The Court’s ruling does not come into effect until next February unless whoever forms the new government (the election is in October) changes the legislation or invokes the notwithstanding clause before that time. Meanwhile, the province of Quebec, which tends toward pure secularism*, was already supportive of the right to die. So they have already passed their own provincial regulations, as each province regulates healthcare independently. Here is a fuller account, including the legislation itself: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-end-of-life-care-law-means-new-era-for-health-providers-1.2667127 I note that the Bill states that physicians have the right to refuse to administer the fatal injections if it goes against their convictions. That is in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling, which noted doctors should not be forced to give euthanasia. So, what the One News Now article reported is not accurate.
*When I said that Quebec was purely secular, they are. They have tried to ban the wearing of any religious clothing, whether it is the hijab or the cross. It is ironic, because – being the former colony of New France – until the mid-1990s, the Roman Catholic church held great sway, to the point where Baptist missionaries in Quebec could and did find themselves arrested and held for handing out literature. Since then, Quebec has become as aggressively secular as it was aggressively Catholic.
Donna, it wasn’t a dissing of Baby Boomers, or trying to say that other generations are better. After all, my parents are Boomers. It was a recognition that because the Boomers are such a large part of the electorate, that a federal government who invoked the notwithstanding clause (the way a government can overrule the Court) would risk losing support in an election. The incumbent Conservative federal government did nothing out of careful political policy.
And, as a baby boomer, I believe we have finished paying. The consequences remain. But the vast majority of the next generation are quite happy with their “stuff” and not willing to give it up for the betterment of society, so I am done worrying about it. I tried to teach my children to be respectful of the environment, but I don’t think any of them would prefer to walk to the neighbors house over driving. And on and on and on.
Just kidding with you rescuro — I think the generational blame game is getting old (we engaged in it, too, of course, complaining about the “mess” our elders left us with the world).
I’m not sure it’s a helpful way to judge cultural changes and history, as each generation builds on the one before it (and on circumstances over which none of us have much control, quite frankly).
But I have high hopes that the millennials will fix all. Go at it. 🙂
Tychicus, I’m not sure who are the candidates for Speaker. I was too busy studying for Peter’s football picks, and now my first team (Virginia) is losing by 25 points.
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Bill Kristol agrees with me that the world is turning to Russia for leadership.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/putin-biden-and-gop_1035835.html
He failed to acknowledge that his Neo-con policies (invade Iraq, destabilize multiple Arab governments, promote Arab democracy) led to this mess. He can blame Obama, and Obama shares in the blame, but the rest of the world knows the people who started the refugee crisis in 2003.
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Sometimes “alleged” isn’t the right word . . . http://www.newser.com/story/213425/stolen-diamond-ring-found-inside-alleged-thief.html
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And this definitely seems unjust: http://www.newser.com/story/213439/battered-woman-to-stay-in-jail-until-2030-for-bfs-abuse.html
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Wow. And probably a good move all around.
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WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, under intense pressure from conservatives in his party, announced on Friday that he would resign one of the most powerful positions in government and give up his House seat at the end of October, as Congress moved to avert a government shutdown.
Mr. Boehner, who was first elected to Congress in 1990, made the announcement in an emotional meeting with his fellow Republicans on Friday morning.
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It will be up to the majority of the members of the House now to choose a new leader, and the leading candidate is Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the majority leader, who is widely viewed more favorably by the more conservative members. The preferred candidate among many Republicans, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, has said he does not want the job.
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donna j: Next up – Mitch McConnell.
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I like and trust Ryan more than McCarthy. I don’t blame Ryan for not wanting the job.
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Mohler on the pope’s address to Congress (from podcast this morning, transcript should be on his website): “Pope’s Congress address fails to mention Jesus, affirms leftward leading of Roman Church”
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rw: How about Jason Chavetz from Utah? I guess he’s not even in the discussion…
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“All of the issues at the center the Reformation in the 16th century continue until today and as the reformers we have to understand that nothing less than the gospel is at stake. We are called to genuinely love our neighbors and many of us will have Catholic friends, who as I said, are looking at the papacy in completely different terms.” — Mohler
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Maybe someone in Canada can offer an explanation for this one. Kinda scary, if accurate…..
http://onenewsnow.com/pro-life/2015/09/25/quebec-tells-doctors-they-will-be-made-to-practice-euthanasia
““The government of Quebec, which is planning to impose euthanasia upon its people starting on December 10, has basically told the doctors, You will do it,” Schadenberg explains. “This is a very concerning situation because they’re not saying to the doctors, Oh, we will send somebody and we will [have it done]. No, they’re saying, You will do this. This will be done. This is the law. If someone asks for it, you will carry it out.”
In addition, the health minister has a message to hospice programs that help people who are dying from natural causes.
“[The government is telling them if they’re] not going to participate in euthanasia, then [it] will lessen the funding … to palliative care centers who refuse to participate,” he tells OneNewsNow.
“So therefore when your mother or your father is needing good care as they’re nearing death, these doctors and nurses who are providing good care will have a tighter budget because they refuse to kill your mother or your father.”
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Well, Phos told us it was difficult to get a job as a nurse as she would have to agree to perform abortions, it makes sense to go for the next step.
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Mumsee, I never said it was difficult to get a job as a nurse because I would have to perform abortions. I have said at different times that I have had a hard time finding a job, but that has been for various reasons. Only once was I in a job interview for an Operating Room position in which I was told that abortions were performed in one operating room, for one morning of one day a week, by one doctor, and I would likely, in the course of my job, be assigned to that room. I said I could not, the interviewers accepted my statement graciously and that was that. I ended up going to Africa instead. However, I was trained to work in the Operating Room in a hospital which did not perform abortions. Not every healthcare facility participates in abortions and not every doctor or nurse performs them – and Supreme Court rulings have established that medical workers have the right to refuse to participate.
On the article in question, earlier this year, the lawyers of some private citizens who wished to end their lives medically, argued successfully before Canada’s Supreme Court that they had the right to do so. The Court agreed that they did in cases where their suffering (one of the plaintiffs had ALS) could not otherwise be mitigated, giving the government one year to change the law against assisted suicide. The government did nothing – this is an election year. The idea of euthanasia is especially popular among the Baby Boomer generation, whom having lived on their own terms (think Sexual Revolution, no-fault divorce, abortion, etc.), now wish to die on their own terms. That isn’t just me talking – there is a big media conglomerate called Zoomer Media which caters to the Baby Boomers and is popular with them, and their media outlets were enthusiastic over the ruling.
The Court’s ruling does not come into effect until next February unless whoever forms the new government (the election is in October) changes the legislation or invokes the notwithstanding clause before that time. Meanwhile, the province of Quebec, which tends toward pure secularism*, was already supportive of the right to die. So they have already passed their own provincial regulations, as each province regulates healthcare independently. Here is a fuller account, including the legislation itself: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-end-of-life-care-law-means-new-era-for-health-providers-1.2667127 I note that the Bill states that physicians have the right to refuse to administer the fatal injections if it goes against their convictions. That is in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling, which noted doctors should not be forced to give euthanasia. So, what the One News Now article reported is not accurate.
*When I said that Quebec was purely secular, they are. They have tried to ban the wearing of any religious clothing, whether it is the hijab or the cross. It is ironic, because – being the former colony of New France – until the mid-1990s, the Roman Catholic church held great sway, to the point where Baptist missionaries in Quebec could and did find themselves arrested and held for handing out literature. Since then, Quebec has become as aggressively secular as it was aggressively Catholic.
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And Millennials will surely save us all. 😉
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Donna, it wasn’t a dissing of Baby Boomers, or trying to say that other generations are better. After all, my parents are Boomers. It was a recognition that because the Boomers are such a large part of the electorate, that a federal government who invoked the notwithstanding clause (the way a government can overrule the Court) would risk losing support in an election. The incumbent Conservative federal government did nothing out of careful political policy.
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As a Baby Boomer, I believe we deserve whatever we get.
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And, as a baby boomer, I believe we have finished paying. The consequences remain. But the vast majority of the next generation are quite happy with their “stuff” and not willing to give it up for the betterment of society, so I am done worrying about it. I tried to teach my children to be respectful of the environment, but I don’t think any of them would prefer to walk to the neighbors house over driving. And on and on and on.
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Just kidding with you rescuro — I think the generational blame game is getting old (we engaged in it, too, of course, complaining about the “mess” our elders left us with the world).
I’m not sure it’s a helpful way to judge cultural changes and history, as each generation builds on the one before it (and on circumstances over which none of us have much control, quite frankly).
But I have high hopes that the millennials will fix all. Go at it. 🙂
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Tychicus, I’m not sure who are the candidates for Speaker. I was too busy studying for Peter’s football picks, and now my first team (Virginia) is losing by 25 points.
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