I saw this earlier today, but wanted to wait until I had a free moment to blog. Well my waiting paid off because someone else did my work for me 😉

For those who are only going to read this part: Santorum has no problem using your tax payer dollars to fund birth control. He was also on Greta and implied that the birth control pill was not an abortafaciet.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2012/02/17/santorum-defends-moral-versus-political-stance-contraception-while-caught-crossfire-super

If you are a Santorum supporter, you owe it to yourself to watch/listen to these.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/markshea/2012/02/mr-catholic.html

So Rick Santorum does an interview with Hannity where he proudly declares that he votes to spend your dough on contraceptives and abortifacients (jump to the 9:05 mark).  (Note: the link has the audio clip)

Only he doesn’t say “abortifacients” because he tries to snow the audience that the Pill is not an abortifacient, only the “morning after” pill is. But, in fact, the Pill *is* an abortifacient. So Santorum has effectively voted to support abortion.

Meanwhile, that kerrrayyyzy Ron Paul strongly opposes federal funding for birth control. Why? Because it’s not the job of the Feds to provide birth control.

So we have a non-Catholic candidate who opposes compelling people to pay for what other people choose to do in the privacy of their bedroom, and we have a Catholic candidate who is “personally opposed” like Cuomo but who chooses to compel people (including Catholics) to pay for what other people do in the privacy of their bedroom, even when it includes abortifacients. He makes a show of opposing the morning after pill. But that’s not the only abortifacient.

What’s wrong with this picture?

Happily, Santorum is in the groove on the things that *really* matter to the GOP leadership–pre-emptive war, preserving the precious legacy of Bush era torture, and the sacred pre-eminence of corporate profits over the needs of human beings. So his private fetish about being semi-prolife is fine, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the real agenda. And since he’s already shown himself to be a good soldier when the party demanded he prostitute himself for Specter, we can be sure he won’t make a thing about abortion really. So he’ll be useful for suckering the prolifers back on to the reservation again.

I’m leaning back toward just voting third party and refusing to support either of these corrupt machines. Either way, Obama doesn’t get my vote, and I will not feel like I need a shower if I don’t vote GOP.

~ Capturing the context of everyday life ~

Today I am linking up with Like Mother, Like Daughter for {pretty, happy, funny, real}

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My beautiful children, a true blessing from God.

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Nine years ago today, I met my husband, Joshua. It’s hard to believe we’ve known each other for that long!

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This is not the day we met, but this is what he was wearing when we met. (a picture of a picture, sorry!)

(Long story made short: We met while I was discerning religious life and he was a religious brother. We became friends and that was it, until the first time we saw each other after he had discerned that he was not called to be a priest.  We knew that day that we would be married and were married a year and two months later, a year and a half from the day we met.)

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Yes! Check out Nadja’s post or go to their Facebook page.

This is a guest post, submitted by Heath C, a liberty loving, pro-life man from Central Georgia. He also write over at I am the Grandchild. (For years we have heard, “we are writing checks that our grandchildren are going to have to pay.” Well I AM THE GRANDCHILD. That time is no longer generations away it’s now.)

If I told you that a person:

1. Voted to use tax payer money to fund Planned Parenthood (number one provider of abortions in America)
2. Voted to pass legislation used to criminalize and indicted Pro-Life peaceful protesters
3. Endorsed Pro-Abortion candidates over Pro-Life Candidates
4. Has voted in the past to federally fund contraception (birth control) ¹

AND you consider yourself pro-life would you vote for that person?

Would you call that person a conservative or liberal?

Anyone want to take a guess at who this describes?

It’s probably not who you are thinking it is. People are probably quick to think of a “liberal” candidate/politician. Someone who has openly said they support a woman’s right to choose. Romney or Obama is a likely first thought.

Well you’d be wrong!

You would never consider it to be the person who casts himself as the “social” conservative, the most “prolife” candidate, or the defender of religious freedom. The person who is described above is Rick Santorum!

He has based his whole conservative image on social issues. Why? Well he knows that his record on fiscal issues, limited government, lower taxes, and privacy issues are liberal NOT conservative ²

So he has hung his hat on courting the Evangelicals and Catholic religious conservatives. He has pandered and catered his message to massage their ears! And they (I should say we because I am an Evangelical) have bought it!

However when you examine his record here is what you’ll find:

• He voted for funding planned parenthood – His defense is that it was included in a much larger spending bill. Well herein is part of the problem. He is for spending in general. If he didn’t mind spending taxpayer money he would have voted no on that principle alone…but to go further if he was SO adamently prolife there is NO WAY he could vote for any spending bill that included funding Planned Parenthood. He will also try to say the money from the government doesn’t go toward abortions. Understand the term fungible and how it works. ³ Basically, if you only have $100 and you need gas but you also want groceries but you couldn’t afford both you are forced to make an either or decision (I like food I’d get food and walk). Now say I gave you $100 and tell you to get some food with my money. You can now afford things that you couldn’t before. You may not ever spend the money I gave you on gas but you are now able to afford gas. The same is the case with government funding of Planned Parenthood. Let alone the fact that the government is giving ANY support to ANY private organization at all…ESPECIALLY one that is providing services that are against the conscience of a large percentage of US citizens.
• The legislation is The Abortion Clinic Access Bill ⁴ and Rick Santorum voted Yay. If he’s against abortion so much why in the world is he voting for access to the clinics? Furthermore, many prolife groups warned that this bill would be abused and end up getting peaceful demonstrators arrested. Well it has.⁵ If you are prolife do you want people to have access to clinics or have them closed down? I am confused.
• Does the name Arlen Specter ring a bell? It should. He was a liberal prochoice Republican from the same state as Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania. There was a more social and fiscal conservative choice (Pat Toomey) that was in the Republican primary in 2004 against Specter. Santorum, however, endorsed the liberal prochoice candidate. WHAT? Why would a prolife candidate endorse a prochoice candidate if prolife issues are so important to him? Specter won in a close election less than 1%. Here’s more fuel to the fire. Specter later switched to the Democratic Party and cast a crucial vote in the Senate to pass Obamacare. Oh and by the way Toomey may sound like a familiar name to you now because he beat Specter and the democrats in 2010 mid-term elections.⁶ Imagine if Santorum had endorsed Toomey could that have affected less than 1% to feel comfortable with Toomey over Specter? Now ask yourself, would Toomey have voted for the 1^st Amendment trampling (forcing Religious institutions to provide contraception to their employees) and the abortion funding Obamacare? The answer is NO! Santorum essentially helped Obama get through his healthcare legislation by supporting Specter.
• He previously voted to continue funding for Title X…which funded contraception. Title X is the only existing federal grant program that is completely devoted to providing comprehensive family planning and other related preventive health services to individuals.⁷

I could keep writing on all the other anti-gun legislation, Endowment of the Arts etc but you get the picture by now.

Here’s my point if he wasn’t so spend happy he never would have indirectly, THOUGH knowingly, voted for Planned Parenthood or Title X. If he was really wanting Abortion clinics closed not easier access; he wouldn’t vote for legislation that leads to the prosecution of peaceful protesters. AND if he was the conservative prolife politician he casts himself has he wouldn’t vote for these OR endorsed Specter out of conscience. Santorum has no problem spending money even when the bills contain pro-death appropriations.

The truth is he is a big government spending Republican who is neither consistent on Fiscal conservatism nor Social conservatism. He isn’t against over spending just Democrats overspending. If and when it’s Republican deficits and debt ceiling increases he doesn’t mind spending. 6 out of 7 times while in Congress he voted in favor of raising the debt ceiling.⁸

We have a candidate who has NEVER voted for raising taxes, unbalanced budgets, or spending increases. Who has also NEVER voted for funding Planned Parenthood, Title X, did not vote for the Access to Abortion Clinics bill OR endorsed Pro-Choice candidates.

In this election we don’t have to make the often vexing decision between social conservative vs. fiscal conservative. We have a candidate that embodies BOTH.

RON PAUL!

RON PAUL has introduced a bill in the Congress that would effectively end Roe vs. Wade with a simple majority of votes and a presidential signature. The Sanctity of Life Act would return jurisdiction to the states and overturn Roe vs. Wade. This bill would save millions of lives immediately while we work on a Constitutional amendment and/or getting judges in place to overturn Roe vs. Wade. The changes at the Federal level are still years away…and difficult (that’s part of the problem of big centralized government. It is difficult to change once something is enacted.) Why not do stop gap measures in the meantime until the latter is accomplished. Most states would vote to make abortions illegal and immediately end them. WE DEFINITELY wouldn’t have all the states funding abortions!⁹

Ron Paul is the conservative option to Rick Santorum…on both SOCIAL and FISCAL issues!

1^ http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/10549-santorum-voted-to-subsidize-abortion-planned-parenthood

…there are more than a few people out there upset with Mr. Santorum’s voting record.

Mr. Bill Greene, from Georgia, wrote this in response to Georgia Right To Life’s endorsement of Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.

Georgia Right to Life’s PAC has announced their endorsements in the Republican Presidential Primary.

THEY BLEW IT.

In their endorsement announcement, they stated: “Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum today received the endorsement of the Georgia Right to Life Political Action Committee (GRTL PAC)… [GRTL President Dan] Becker noted that both Gingrich and Santorum have signed the ‘Personhood Pledge.’ In it, they agree to support a personhood amendment to the U.S. and state constitutions. Such an amendment would guarantee a constitutional right to life for every human being, from the moment of conception until natural death.”

They went on to say, “The organization did not endorse Governor Mitt Romney or Congressman Ron Paul because of their compromise on life issues. Referring to Romney and Paul, Crozier said ‘Governor Romney still supports abortion in the case of rape and incest, and Congressman Paul recently indicated in certain cases, he does as well.’ While Congressman Paul did sign the personhood pledge his recent interview on CNN invalidates his claim, Governor Romney has publicly declined to sign any prolife pledge.”

Well, at least they got it right on Romney, the “father of the $50 state-funded abortion” in Massachusetts. But they blew it on Santorum and Gingrich — and they REALLY blew it on Paul.

Rick Santorum is not only NOT conservative on issues of limited government and following the Constitution; his claims to be “pro-life” fall short as well. As a United States Senator, Santorum voted to subsidize Planned Parenthood with federal taxpayer subsidies:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/10549-santorum-voted-to-subsidize-abortion-planned-parenthood

Santorum also voted to federally prosecute peaceful pro-life protestors demonstrating outside abortion clinics:

http://thenewamerican.com/culture/family/7374-doj-targets-pro-life-activists

And let’s not forget how he repeatedly endorsed pro-abortion candidates over pro-life candidates, such as former Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter and former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman:

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Santorum-Haunted-Pro-abortion-Specter/2011/12/31/id/422684

http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/10562-evangelical-leaders-endorse-qtrue-conservativeq-santorum

Sorry, GRTL: those are NOT pro-life positions. They’re not even conservative, Constitutional positions. You blew it on Rick Santorum.

As for Newt Gingrich, whom you also endorsed, he claims that he had a solidly pro-life voting record while he was in Congress. Well, so does Ron Paul; in fact, he almost always scored a big fat ZERO PERCENT with NARAL, one of the leading pro-abortion groups in the nation. At their http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/ website, they wrote about Paul, “During his years in Congress, Rep. Paul voted 106 times on choice-related issues. Ninety-three of those votes were anti-choice. On the occasions he voted pro-choice, Paul often made speeches on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to explain why and to reaffirm his anti-choice views.” (I’m sure you understand that “anti-choice” is the pro-aborts’ term for “pro-life”.)

And let’s not forget that Paul introduced legislation that would have REVERSED Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, preventing activist judges from interfering with state decisions on life by removing abortion from federal court jurisdiction through his “We the People Act.” AND that he introduced legislation, the “Sanctity of Life Act,” defining life as beginning at conception.

Paul’s signing of the “Personhood Pledge” is consistent with his strong pro-life stance, as laid forth at http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/abortion/ where he states that his “experience in science and medicine only reinforced his belief that life begins at conception.” But Georgia Right to Life says that Paul’s pledge and clear beliefs are “invalidated” by his one interview on CNN, where he stated that, as a strong pro-life obstetrician, he believed that giving a rape victim an immediate contraception is acceptable because there’s absolutely no scientific or medical way to know if a baby was conceived during the rape.

Really, GRTL? That’s why you didn’t endorse Paul – because, despite clearly stating his belief that life begins at conception, you felt that this statement shows that somehow, he isn’t really pro-life?

THEN HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT FOR YOUR ENDORSEMENT OF GINGRICH?

Gingrich goes much further than you purport Paul does on this issue of when life begins: He doesn’t even believe life begins at conception, despite signing the Pledge:

GINGRICH BELIEVES LIFE BEGINS AT “IMPLANTATION”:

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/12/02/gingrich_life_begins_at_implantation_not_conception How do you justify endorsing Gingrich, who would obviously agree with the idea that giving a rape victim an immediate contraception is acceptable — SINCE LIFE BEGINS AT IMPLANTATION, in his mind — but you reject Paul?

My friends at Georgia Right to Life, YOU BLEW IT. You endorsed Rick Santorum, who voted to subsidize Planned Parenthood with federal taxpayer subsidies, voted to federally prosecute peaceful pro-life protestors demonstrating outside abortion clinics, and repeatedly endorsed pro-abortion candidates over pro-life candidates; you endorsed Newt Gingrich, who believes that life begins at “implantation,” NOT at conception; and you rejected Ron Paul, a 100% consistent pro-life obstetrician who introduced legislation that would reverse Roe v. Wade, has delivered over 4,000 babies, and believes life begins at conception.

My recommendation? Retract your endorsements altogether — and stay out of the presidential primaries this year. Let’s save babies right here in Georgia.

Seeings as God sees fit to make me wait for another child (I am learning to be patient and trust in God’s will, even when it comes to the “I want another child” side of fertility…no charting either way) we are getting a move on potty training Benedict.

I usually put a snap diaper or training pants on him during the day. Yesterday, during a trip to T.arget, I purchased him some more training pants, ones with cute little dinosaurs on them. We put them on him today and he seemed to do pretty well, accidents left and right, but it is more the point that we learn his cues for bathroom needs.

I learned one of them this afternoon. If he crawls all over me and tries to sit on my lap, remove anything in his way and sit in the middle of my belly/chest, that means he is poopy.

Thanks Benedict.

I am looking forward to having him potty trained though. We don’t put time limits on the kids and we are content with however long it takes and are more than willing to deal with the messes, so I know this may be a long road.

*As a side, it is COLD here in South Georgia. We have a hard freeze warning for tonight and tomorrow. Guess who did their out door planting and has little seedlings to go cover up tonight. I might actually turn the heat pump on tonight to keep the house warm.