A woman who was raped and gave her daughter up for adoption thirty years ago is suing the state of New Jersey for allegedly assisting the adoptee find her. The thirty year old adopted daughter apparently went to her birth mother’s home, and has attempted to contact another birth sibling from her birth mother. The birth mother had been made aware of the adoptee’s request to communicate prior to the unsolicited home visit, and did not respond to the letter the State of New Jersey sent her apprising her of the same. For the full story, here’s the link to the article:
Every now and again, MULLOVERTHIS gets stumped. I had to think about this one for a few seconds, but only a few seconds. After mulling through the emotional components, this is a clear cut case. This adopted woman, if her story is correct, should get a million plus a few extra bucks. Adoption laws are SUPPOSED to work such that someone like the plaintiff can make the decision that she was prepared to live with, albeit thirty years ago. It is unjust to shift the rules now, because some lackadaisical state employees felt like doing whatever they wanted. Had the daughter found her through some ingenuity on her own, or with private people locaters, then we’d have a different story. This woman had a right to close the door to the rape, and the child that came from the rape, without having to face her at her front door thirty years later.
Once NJ pays, and pays dearly, they might impose some personal penalties to the employees that break the law and get caught up in an adoptee’s personal pursuits. Had this adoptee had a “need” that was life-threatening or considerably commensurate, she should have acquired a court order. The adoptee’s need does not outweigh the mother’s need to live in peace and privacy. This mother has absolutely no bond with the grown woman and should not have been jolted into re-visiting a part of her life that I’m sure she wished never happened.
As one who is not pro-life-but anti-murder and anti-disassociated human depravity through murdering pre-born children-this mother made a courageous decision and should teach the state a good old-fashioned lesson: Keep its word.
Folks, Nany Pelosi just gave her weekly press conference. Cameras can be our friend or enemy. Pelosi, whose demeanor is normally two shaves shy of brazen and forthright, did quite a bit of stumbling and near-stuttering today. Nonetheless, she managed to unequivocally say that she is not answering any questions surrounding the current controversy about her remarks debunking the credibility of the CIA and current GOP attempts to get Pelosi de-throned. Speaker of the House Pelosi said the country must stay on our course, and not be distracted. She is committed to a bi-partisan approach to dealing with the economy, health care and everything other than what she says was never said because to do so would say that she has said too much to avoid why she didn’t deal with what was said.
The GOP just needed to take notes and the next time a major GOP leader needs a mask, just mimick Pelosi’s attempted ballyhoo. Serve up the tactic where questioning the issue is a partisan attack, and take the high road of moving onward with the bi-partisan business at hand.
Too bad we all can’t live above warranted reproach.
A thirteen year old Minnesota boy is allegedly on the run with his mother to avoid chemotherapy treatment for Hodgkins Lymphoma, a highly treatable form of cancer with traditional chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Mom and son allegedly prefer to treat the cancer naturally on religious grounds, because such treatment would involve violating their beliefs.
Judge Judy addressed the issue in a potluck style interview with Larry King and noted a number of important factors. A thirteen year old boy is of considerable age and as a family court judge, she would want to know the young boy’s desire. Also, the young boy must have his own counsel to protect his own interests, irrespective of his parents and other interested parties.
Mulloverthis thinks that this case is one in a line of many, that points to government imposition into socialist areas that break the bounds of individual rights. The government, through the arms of the court, child welfare and social service agencies, should not mandate medical treatments based upon statistics. If I want to lay down and die from a tumor, that is my business. A family who is otherwise well-balanced and informed should be able to choose what types of medical treatments, or lack thereof, they prefer. Provided the parents are aware of optional treatments and have reasonable grounds for pursuing alternative treatments, they should be free to do so on any grounds.
Consider this: the 13 year old boy could take the chemotherapy and die from the cancer. Meanwhile, he would have endured the torture of chemotherapy. If anyone is qualified to roll the dice on his life, it is his parents and those that love him.
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich has done it again. The crowned king of heart wrenching Inflammatory Jargon has called for the resignation of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. Newt’s call for action surrounds Pelosi’s whimpy and allegedly disingenious response to whether or not she knew of the now inhumane use of waterboarding as an “enhanced interrogation” tactic against detained al Qaeda suspects. Nanci clearly stated that she was misguided, and the CIA misguides Congress all of the time. Homegirl says she was briefed, and alludes to a mere cursory mentioning of it in 2002. She blamed her lack of information–or brain freeze–on the CIA. Newt and other conservatives believe this weakens the national security of the US, in the largest connect the dots slippery slope argument I’ve seen in a long time.
Here’s what I think: When there’s a rat in the house, set all different kinds of traps. Whichever one catches the critter first, is the winner. Whether Newt’s cry against Pelosi is legitimate or not, Mulloverthis has been waiting for this day. Pelosi can take her anti-Christian efforts and influence some place else.
Anyway, we all know, Pelosi isn’t going anywhere without a fight. FAGHEDDABOWDIT.
The following record was taken directly from Senator Grassley’s website, from an immediate press release dated March 26, 2009.
Transcription of Senator Grassley’s Capitol Hill Report
“QUESTION: Along that line, Senator, have you — have your requests for information, financial information, from televangelists been completely satisfied? There were one or two holdouts at one time.
GRASSLEY: Those one or two are still holding out, and we haven’t decided yet to take the step of a subpoena. But it looks to me like that’s what we’ll have to do. We have had almost — by two others — almost a complete answer to what I would say would be a good judgment of some progress we’re making. And that is that there’s an evangelical accounting board — and that’s not exactly its title.
But it’s kind a Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for churches that are members of it to pledge to do certain things to make sure that their money is handled in a secure way as a trustee for the donors’ money. And we’ve had two of these six have recently submitted themselves to this evangelical accounting board to make sure that they follow the law.
STAFF: Thank you, Tom and Rick, for participating in today’s public affairs program. This has been Senator Chuck Grassley reporting to the people of Iowa.”
UPDATE: To date, there have not been any allegations of inappropriate oversight or IRS non-compliance levied against any of the Grassley Six. Please review articles on this blog since December 2007 providing coverage.
The question is not whether Christianphobia is on the rise or not. The question is do people who despise Christians, because we hold fast to the Bible and our faith, have the ability to be equitable and just.
Imagine the melee gay activists, same sex marriage advocates and the so-called “open-minded” (and I use this characterization lightly) people would have if Mrs. California was pro-gay, and a staunch Christian judge began an uproar because of her support for the advancement of gay rights. Imagine. It’s not hard to imagine, because Christians can no longer go to our own churches without being challenged by people who want Christians to deface our teachings and comply with modern “thinking” and ways of living. When gay people are filthy and downright egregious in their tactics to advance their causes, they are activists. When Christians do the same thing, we are barbaric bigots.
Perez Hilton probably thought he was going to set Miss California up. Perez admitted Miss California’s answer cost her the “win” in the Miss USA pageant. To those who believe her position is outdated and inundated with bias, Perez’s “on the spot” question was fair game. Again, had Perez been James Dobson questioning a hard core lesbian whose avid response supported same sex marriage, and the lesbian suffered the crown because of her viewpoint, no one in America would be able to take a nap.
When folks believe that terrorizing church members by locking them into a sanctuary is not that big of a deal-but the same action against a bunch of preschoolers by a bunch of young black or latino males would have a community in an uproar-that’s when we know the answers to the pertinent questions. What is equitable and justifiable is what people want while the means-end application of principle is out of the window.
Kudos to Miss California for her forthright boldness and honesty while enduring another episode of heterophobia for believing in traditional family values. Just as homosexuals have a right to their opinion, so does Miss California and every other Christian who opposes same sex marriage.
Speaking of 15 minutes of fame, Former Governor Rod Blagojevich, the center of a political debacle, was ousted from the chief executive office for the State of Illinois this past January. Shrouded in oblivion, today Blagojevich is waiting for the sandman clown to boo him off of the world stage. According to the news reports, the alleged criminal, oops former governor (I must keep that appointment to be tested for Tourette’s Syndrome) accepted an NBC offer to appear on a reality show. The estimated contractual consideration is around $60,000-$80,000 per episode. Blagojevich just may endure the anticipated fifteen week run. And to think, we have earnest, hard working people with ethics and morals who will work all year long to make what the narcissistic former governor might clear in one week. This is of course if the indicted and on trial Blagojevich–for depriving the people of the State of Illinois of honest government–will be granted leave by the court to tape overseas. The man has to continue to work, doesn’t he? So, Joey Buttafuoco, Madoff, Spitzer, and Imus move over. Blagojevich is on the scene and will probably join you on the sullied bench. Overall, watching the former governor’s compete foolishness served honorable statesman turned celebrity au contraire, is better than having him resort to high seas debauchery in order to survive. Crime doesn’t pay. At least that’s what we should choose to believe.
I remember the day I waited for the verdict in OJ’s murder trial better than I remember most days. That day was a day that I would find that most of the hope vested in true justice in America would be crushed. I heard the verdict, watched OJ’s reaction, his son’s reaction, and knew what I knew the moment I saw the televised chase in the white bronco. As one who refuses to dethrone common sense for a bunch of extraneous theories that amount to nonsense, it was clear that Orenthal Simpson, The Juice, had something to hide. Marsha Clarke and Chris Darden missed simple common sense approaches to working their legal theory and proving the prosecution’s case against OJ. OJ’s legal team pimped stereotypes and the race card to give place to reasonable doubt. Such mastery even trumped DNA evidence, which by the way, has no particular feelings against OJ. And, we cannot forget Johnny Cochran’s “if [the glove] doesn’t fit, we must acquit”. OJ’s immediate post trial behavior only substantiated that fact that I believed that OJ did in murder Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. His year-long pre-verdict promise to find the real killer never took place. A much needed trip to the golf course did, however. Nicole’s alleged drug abuse and frivolous lifestyle did not cloud my judgment about the worth of her life, or the ignorance many still hold regarding control and domestic abuse at its worst. The grand celebration that many African Americans conducted, because OJ symbolized someone who got away with it, like endless other white men who have gotten slaps on wrists for committing crimes against blacks, was not true equity. OJ’s victory only symbolized the sickness of racism and celebrity love working in the reverse where African Americans by the masses showed that when given the opportunity, we would engage and celebrate the same racial bias that historically served to oppress us.
As Denise Brown allegedly stated, all who worked to help OJ “go free” have suffered major castastrophes because God doesn’t like ugly. As the following referenced AP article denotes regarding the recent Las Vegas trial, “He [OJ] was convicted of an armed robbery that happened on Sept. 13 and was found guilty on the 13th anniversary of his Los Angeles murder acquittal. The Las Vegas jury deliberated for 13 hours after a 13-day trial.” Thirteen [13] is the number of apostasy, depravity and rebellion in Biblical numerics. OJ will finally be sentenced for the current charges, yet I cannot help but believe that OJ, who is facing a possible life sentence, will spend incarcerated days knowing that he finally got what he deserved.
Although I believe OJ was set up and walked right into the trap set for him, he did so because his steps of life needed to take him to reap what he sowed. He needed to be exposed for his shady low-grade lifestyle. The same legal system that OJ allegedly “got over” on in 1995 is the same legal system that may have worked against him in this case. OJ’s jury is this case was a jury of his peers. OJ is not concerned about being surrounded by black people unless it involves his family. So African Americans need not even attempt to use the make-up of the jury as a ground for bias against OJ because he is a Black man. The Juice’s willful associations over the years have been with the same racial make-up of the jurors that heard the case and relevant facts in this case.
One day, Americans are going to figure out that Sarah Palin didn’t write her RNC speech. Enough people are going to know that the Obama slams weren’t her own. Mitt Romney wrote every word of his speech. He didn’t need the RNC to script his words to the American public. Governor Palin did what Will Smith, Angelina Jolie, and Susan Sarandon do. Actors take a script and bring life to the lines and make it believable. Gorgeous, sassy, big smiling, seems like she is a real spitfire fighter Palin doesn’t cut the mustard because the Vice President needs to bring so much more to the table; Especially one appointed by a Presidential nominee who is old and already a gamble himself having already lived through serious health challenges. McCain better hope the day America gets past the Palin hype is not before November 8.
While most can’t help but like Palin and can’t deny her appeal, after we live long enough we realize that you don’t have to like the mailman. We just need him to deliver the mail. Mail personnel sweet as pure sugar cane who are always late, or deliver our mail to the neighbor down the street are not needed. Palin is by no means an ineffective Governor, or at least her approval rating indicates that her constituency is more than satisfied with her performance. Alaska hasn’t been able to see the calm after the storm. Palin hasn’t even completed one term as Governor of Alaska.
Yet, we are notified of Palin’s “list of accomplishments” by a handful of her female GOP high ranking counterparts when being scolded for Palin’s sexist treatment. We are being asked to take a leap with a Governor whose list of accomplishments were never specified because they just may invoke laughter by the average corporate business executive or CEO who has accomplished greater goal-end objectives in the first quarter of the fiscal year during a RECESSION, than what Palin has during her entire stellar politicanship.
Somebody with a GED has a “list of accomplishments”. My first line of questioning to Governor Palin’s co-horts is what exactly are these accomplishments? Filing suit against the federal government for enlisting bears as endangered species? Firing the chauffeur, chef, and re-directing their income to the budget? Firing all those connected with her pursuit to terminate her former brother-in-law’s employment? We can’t afford not to be real. What are Palin’s achievements?
I only have one message for Former Governor Jane Swift, Carly Fiorina, and these GOP women sensitized to sexism who will not permit Governor Palin to be demonized by the media on the basis of sex. Mothers are women. Men cannot be mothers. The best man cannot be a mother. Children NEED mothers, just like they need fathers. Women and Men are not completely interchangeable with no distinctions. Neither are mothers and fathers. The laws of this country recognize these REALITIES. So, when these women who are so sensitive to sexism that they want to defend a mother of five–four of whom are minors, one of which is an unmarried pregnant teenager (this does not become cute because someone has put a shirt and dress shoes on the young daddy and they profess their love for one another), and the infant son has special needs–to justify her conscious choice to pursue a cream of the crop career, I have a kind suggestion for them. Defend the fathers of this nation who live with the imbalance of legal protections given to mothers BECAUSE THE LAW AND THE REST OF THE COUNTRY RECOGNIZE THAT WOMEN ARE PRESUMED TO BE THE PRIMARY CARETAKERS OF CHILDREN, BECAUSE CHILDREN NEED TO BE NURTURED, AND ALL ANIMAL SPECIES THE FEMALES FEED AND NURTURE THEIR YOUNG. Women cannot expect to benefit from the protection of the law and then don’t want any type of public accountability for their lack of responsibility. When all of these hypocrites who want mothers to have the right to mother without interference UNLESS SHE IS UNFIT (or chooses to relinquish custody of her children) can see that their ideals should not stop with Palin and continue into the family courts and mediations across America, then we’ll give Palin a send-off to NEGLECT her children for a career. That’s when we’ll accept that our expectations are biased simply because she is a woman. Most men who are RESPONSIBLE fathers co-parent and negotiate responsibilities to ensure their children are protected, provided for and nurtured to become the best human beings. Fathers and mothers make sacrifices every day for their children. This will be the day that judges look at the best interest of a child based upon which parent is better equipped to parent, and can give a child a better life. There is no real equity in this regard.
All of the Gloria Steinhem, estrogen, and red lipstick will not change the fact that women who decide to have children should be committed to the welfare of their children first, not country first. Home first. Family first. That is when we will have a better country. This progressive feminism appears to be a carte blanche excuse for women to do whatever we feel like doing to be free. Killing millions of unborn babies is not freedom. Neither is choosing a career that will cause a mother to neglect her children during the prime of their developmental stages as opposed to the prime of a woman’s life. It’s time for the beneficiaries of feminism and female solidarity to move beyond women. Our children are the first ad litem expenses to false equity and freedom.
So, Palin’s sisters in the struggle speak up. Now, I, along with many other Americans speak up. We have a right to let Palin know she is mother with BAD judgment. When her water broke with her special needs son, she should not have waited to make her speech. Child’s life versus her moment in the spotlight to make a distinguishing speech must have been in the scales of her mind. To the average mom, this was not even a decision. Palin chose to wait to make her speech because she was not going to miss the moment. She then choose to get on a flight and travel approximately 10 hours to deliver the baby. BAD JUDGMENT. Period.
Finally, if Palin and her female sensitizers don’t want her family values questioned, Palin shouldn’t have been selected, in part, because of her family values and position against abortion, sex-education, and so forth. Bristol still has a baby daddy, with his hard sole dress shoes and all. Although she is human and we all make mistakes, Governor Palin addresses the mis-steps and choices of other people’s lives when she decides to be a proponent of abstinence-only education and is anti-abortion. She is in the homes of Alaskans already. Now, she wants privacy concerning her teenage daughter with a baby daddy. Where is FOX News when we need them? Hypocrisy in pristine suits or with a red, white and blue bikini toting a firearm isn’t cute on the bull-dog Palin, or her defenders.
The bottom line is Governor Palin should be qualified when in immediate succession to the President of the United States.
Moderators Note: Additional scenario to mullover: If Palin were a Black woman with a teenage pregnant daughter, a bunch of kids, just had a new special needs baby, and wanted to pursue a once in a lifetime demanding career, who would stand up for her and defend such a choice? Would our sensitivities tell us that she needs to take care of her children? Do we just “leave it at that” because the mother loves her children?
Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain joined host, Pastor Rick Warren, at the Saddleback church for an interview aired on CNN. Both presumptive Presidential nominees answered the same questions at separate times, one-on-one with Rick Warren, in front of thousands. During his interview, Obama sat in a church and justified why he is in support of gay marriage, homosexual rights, and abortion–while declaring that he is a Christian and Jesus Christ saved him by grace. Watching the Christian rationalize baby killings because to determine when life begins is above Obama’s “pay grade” (his own words) is enough audacity. But, there is more.
Obama unleashed more of his glaring introspective thoughts when asked which United States Supreme Court justices would he not have appointed. Obama didn’t hesitate or stutter. Clarence Thomas. Here is the reasoning Obama stated, “”I don’t think that he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation, setting aside the fact that I profoundly disagree with his interpretations of a lot of the Constitution.” This, off course, is coming from a former editor of the Harvard Law Review and a corporate attorney. Obama has wet his feet in the practical legal and political world compared to the Senators who were on the confirmation committee and thinks he is qualified to judge the competence of Justice Clarence Thomas’ jurisprudence. Interesting. Especially from a man who wants to be President of the United States, with only one full-term as a US Senator under his belt, and eight years as an Illinois Senator. Compared to his colleagues and competition, Obama needs to sit down and say “sike” (slang for I was only playing) by his own standards.
Here are some facts: At the time of Justice Clarence Thomas’ Supreme Court appointment, he had already been confirmed by the US Senate (many of whom have law degrees and legal backgrounds) for appointment to the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, one of the most honorable court appointments in the land. Thomas wasn’t appointed to the Supreme Court from being a traffic court judge, or a scripted court television judge. Prior to the Circuit Court appointment, Thomas-a Yale law graduate- also worked in an attorney general’s office, was an Assistant Secretary of Education, and was the CHAIRMAN of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for almost eight years. Justice Clarence Thomas already had experience as a jurist on one of the most esteemed courts of the land when he was appointed, yet ankle-deep Obama cited Thomas wasn’t strong enough.
So then, we are to believe that Obama is strong enough to be PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, while Thomas wasn’t a strong enough jurist or legal thinker to be onemember of the highest court in the judicial branch of our government. Obama better be careful before his house negro mentality yields trouble for him during the rest of his campaign, and if elected President, when he gets into office. He has obviously been in the house so long that his vision is tainted. Obama’s candidacy alone suggests that he sees himself as capable and his experience on the Presidential track is not even comparable to that of Thomas’ on the judicial track at the time of Thomas’ appointment to the US Supreme Court. Obama’s grossly skewed assessment of Thomas is not only condescending, but completely inappropriate in light of the increasing hostile climate (based upon beliefs that Black people are unqualified and given free-bees) pro-White extremists have towards Black Americans because of our insurgence in politics, education, business, ownership, religion and otherwise. Hopefully Obama’s deep musings will reveal his own audacity to try to discredit the qualifications of the only Black justice on the Supreme Court.
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