> We could ask, given that Palin had no doubts about seeing her
> pregnancy through, why she bothered to take a genetic test. Why not,
> as you might expect a woman in her position and with her outspoken
> beliefs to do, decline any testing or counseling? Of course, it seems
> very reasonable to want to know about the health of your baby and to
> have time to prepare (emotionally and otherwise) for a baby that may
> have a genetic disorder. But that doesn't negate the fact that by
> having a blood test, Palin was given a choice about what to do.
>
> But Palin was given a choice whether to have that child, something, if
> she had her way as a lawmaker, she wouldn't give others. According to
> legal experts, should Roe v. Wade be overturned, some states could
> outlaw abortion for Down syndrome or other birth defects, and women
> wouldn't have Palin's choice.
>
> So while I respect Palin's decision to raise Trig, that's all the
> respect she will get from me. I don't see eye-to-eye with her on
> anything else: energy, guns, sex education and of course a woman's
> right to choose. Her supporters say that Trig signals that she
> practices what she preaches. Her decision to make her own choice but
> not grant it to others is a sign of her hypocrisy.
> I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....
>
>
>
> * If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're
> "exotic, different."
>
> * Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American
> story.
>
>
>
> * If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
>
> * Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick.
>
>
>
> * Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
>
> * Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well
> grounded.
>
>
>
>
>
> * If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the
> first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter
> registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years
> as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator
> representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of
> the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years
> in the United States Senate representing a
>
> state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on
> the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's
> Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
>
> * If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city
> council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000
> people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people,
> then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking
> executive.
>
>
>
>
>
> * If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while
> raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're
> not a real Christian.
>
> * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
> disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a
> Christian.
>
>
>
>
>
> * If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including
> the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
>
> * If , while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no
> other option in sex education in your state's school system while your
> unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you're very responsible.
>
>
>
>
>
> * If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in
> a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city
> community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values
> don't represent America 's.
>
> * If you're husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI
> conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until
> age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession
> of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.
>
>
>
>
>
> OK, much clearer now.
>
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 9/16/08, Rascal C //* wrote:
>
> From: Rascal C
> Subject: Fw: FW: Think about this, please]
> To: Wayne-Pat-P@..., "Wayne and Annette Pritchard"
> , "Tengai Mark Van Horn"
> , strattonbarb@..., "Steve Strader"
> , "Spike55" ,
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>
> Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 12:24 PM
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:27 PM
> Subject: [Fwd: FW: Think about this, please]
>
>
> >>
> >> From: "Renee Underwood"
> >> Date: 2008/09/16 Tue AM 09:15:20 EDT
> >> To: ,
> >> "hmblackhawk@..." ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> "jmcgrotha@..."
> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> "Julie Marchman @ Work"
> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> "kim king" ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> "pamstory@..."
> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> "ricksr79@..." ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> "Summer Collins" ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> ,
> >> "Tommy Peacock@ Windsor"
> ,
> >> "Traci Laird" ,
> >> ,
> >>
> >> Subject: FW: Think about this, please
> >>
> >>
> >> IMPORTANT
> >>
> >>
> >> > Again, unfortunately, are the people who really need to read this
> even
> >> going to see it???
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > If after reading this email you disagree, Please, no need to
> reply
> >> back to me. Your opinion is yours and that's fine, just delete it.
> >> > > *******************************
> >> > > A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality
> that they
> >> imagine that America can suffer defeat without any inconvenience to
> >> themselves.
> >> > >
> >> > > Pause a moment, reflect back.
> >> > >
> >> > > These events are actual events from history..
> >> > >
> >> > > They really happened!!!
> >> > >
> >> > > Do you remember?
> >> > >
> >> > > 1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by a Muslim male
> >> extremist.
> >> > >
> >> > > 2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped
> and
> >> massacred by Muslim male extremists.
> >> > >
> >> > > 3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by Muslim
> male
> >> extremists.
> >> > >
> >> > > 4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were
> kidnapped in Lebanon
> >> by Muslim male extremists.
> >> > >
> >> > > 5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by
> Muslim
> >> male extremists.
> >> > >
> >> > > 6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a
> 70 year
> >> old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his
> >> wheelchair by Muslim male extremists.
> >> > >
> >> > > 7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US
> Navy
> >> diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by Muslim male
> >> extremists. (remember the pilot of this flight was from Richmond,