Artsy Fartsy Pt.2

This is the bogus b.s. I was referring to in Pt.1:

Student Gives Herself Multiple Abortions For Her Art Project!

When I first read this story I honestly thought is was some kind of sick joke, like something out of The Onion.

I have often said nothing shocks me anymore, and I keep getting proven wrong.

Aliza Shvarts, an art major at Yale University is using abortion as part of her senior art project. She is not just using abortion, but her own purposefully induced abortions. Shvarts artificially inseminated herself as often as possible over a nine month period of time. During that time she would take abortifacient drugs to induce "miscarriages." Shvarts did all of this in the name of art, as she will display video recordings of her "miscarriages" along with blood samples in her project.

Students from both, pro-life and pro-choice groups on campus say their groups have taken no official position on the project. One student from the pro-life group did call it "surprising" and unethical.

How far is "too far"? I have to ask. I have to believe that even some of the most adamantly pro-choice people in this country would find this to be despicable. This world is going further and further down a road of total disregard for human life and it seems to have no end in sight. With stories like this one, and the fight in British Parliament to allow half animal - half human embryos to be made for stem cell research, will we finally say "stop"?

If this does anything, it gives us more resolve to continue the work we are doing at Stand True to bring an end to this culture of death. We know that we have a monstrous battle ahead of us, but we will not waiver or give up until every human person is protected and the sanctity of human life is restored.

You can read the full article from the Yale Daily News here - http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24513

I would love to hear your thoughts and comments on this story. Go to my blog at http://rainlovedown.blogspot.com/ to leave a comment.

For Christ I Stand,

Bryan Kemper - bryankemper@standtrue.com

Hear Ye, Hear Ye

I'm here to inform you that, from this point on, Catholicism as you know it and all of its esteemed followers are under my benevolent control...well, according to my mother, that is.

This morning she called me from Chicago, and in what I suppose was an attempt to make small talk, she inquired if 'all of my people were excited about the Pope's arrival.' Wow, My People, really? I feel so Nazarene suddenly.

Am I truly the only Protestant she knows who socializes with the likes of those Catholics cohorts?

Suddenly I'm the Angelina Jolie of the Roman Catholic church and I must say...I feel pretty darn honored.

Thank you mother for the promotion, I will send your regards to Benedict.

Artsy Fartsy

Art is for perverts, drug addicts, and megalomaniacs.

It's official, I'm joining a pentecostal church first thing in the morning, growing my hair out, curling my bangs to enormous proportions, and buying my clothes strictly at craft fairs from this point on. I no longer warrant a place in civilized society, because I have come to the conclusion it is anything but.

One of the things that originally attracted my husband and I to one another was our mutual love for indy music and avant guard art. He's an art minor and quite a true artist himself. I on the other hand am bad at math, and simply chose to become a right brained individual by default in an attempt to avoid having to balance my checkbook.

Some art I get; 90% I over analyze in an attempt to get. For the longest time I have surmised that a majority of artists acquire extra access to that dormant part of the human brain, whether it be through intense meditation or recreational drugs, and this belief has intrigued me greatly. Rather than experiment myself I've chosen to play it safe and stay on the outside peering in.

Recently though, I've come to the conclusion that most modern day artists (who are incapable of doodling anything more than a stick figure) simply choose their occupation in order to give purpose to a preexisting vice; whether it be substance abuse, a superiority complex, or just a carnal need to see other human beings in the nude. These are the 'artist,' of course, who throw a bloody tampon covered in whip cream into a bucket of razors and tell you to figure out what it means.

Don't get me wrong, I do acknowledge there is still rare, genuine talent out there, but our society has made it incredibly easy for impostors to flourish.

Upon making this discovery, I've decided I want nothing more to do with it. At one point I was intrigued by these individuals tormented existence but now thanks to A&E and can get my fill of them by watching episodes of 'Intervention.'

There are much more useful things we can spend our energy deciphering. Perhaps I'm just growing up...or perhaps I'm just getting old. It saddens me that I now see a difference between the two.

Abrahm will surely think I'm lame now, and come to the conclusion that he has been tricked into marrying a dull conservative who has become quite the cranial switch hitter. Hopefully the old saying is true though, and 'if' beauty is in the eye of the beholder than perhaps one day he can acquire a taste for the un-extraordinary new me....corn husk sized bangs and all.

Abstinence Minded

Abstinence Only Education? Seriously? Come on, it's 2008; get real. After all, kids WILL BE kids.

I'm sorry to disagree with this method, but I have to tell you saying "Hey kids, don't have sex" is almost as stupid as saying "Hey kids, don't drink and drive." Absolutely barbaric.

It's time to wake up and face the ugly fact that they're going to do it anyway.

So what now?

I'll tell you; WE MUST EDUCATE OUR TEENS.

I propose that once a semester during health class we take these naive, young, little kiddos out to the parking lot, get them liquored up and teach the how to drink and drive PROPERLY.
EDUCATION IS THE ONLY ANSWER, and safe drunk driving is the only way we're going to see alcohol related death rates lowered.

We must teach these youth, step by step, how to put on their safety belts while holding a 40 oz. beer, otherwise we have no one to blame but ourselves when their brown paper bag breaks and alcohol gets all over the upholstery. They didn't know any better; they WEREN'T TAUGHT how to properly secure the bag. They also need to know what resources are available to them if their own old-fashioned parents aren't willing to buy them alcohol. The last thing we want is them purchasing adult beverages in some dark, Tijuana, back alley...it's just not safe. It's vital that kids have access to this information, whether or not their prehistoric parents agree, or we will have no one to blame but ourselves when they end up getting hurt.

ABSTINENCE ONLY EDUCATION IS JUST AS ABSURD AS SOBRIETY ONLY EDUCATION.

All packed up with nowhere to go...

can I come live with you?

Bowl Movement

I hate packing...especially the little, fragile, horrible things that you know are going to get broken now matter how much you rap them; i.e. wine glasses, dishes, picture frames. It's inevitable.

And what about all of this giant crap we have from IKEA? How do you store an eight foot tall canvas? Or break down a 546 part piece of furniture. Those Swede's are twisted.

As much as I want to put a visible dent on this packing process, all of these things keep getting left out because they are so miserable to box up and transfer.

Wow...8:55 and I'm already psyched out. This day looks promising.

Knee Deep In Sheep

Washington DC, Feb 28, 2008 (CNA).- On Wednesday a full transcript of Democrat presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama's July 2007 speech to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund in which he vigorously defended legalized abortion became available. In the July 17 speech, Obama attacked the Supreme Court decision that upheld the federal partial-birth abortion ban and the nomination of Supreme Court justices who favor overturning Roe v. Wade. In the speech the senator said, 'There will always be people, many of goodwill, who do not share my view on the issue of choice. On this fundamental issue, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield.' Obama based his speech around the question, "What kind of America will our daughters grow up in?"
He specifically argued against the Supreme Court decision Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld restrictions on partial-birth abortion.
"For the first time in Gonzales versus Carhart," Obama said, "the Supreme Court held—upheld a federal ban on abortions with criminal penalties for doctors. For the first time, the Court's endorsed an abortion restriction without an exception for women's health. The decision presumed that the health of women is best protected by the Court—not by doctors and not by the woman herself. That presumption is wrong."
He warned abortion supporters that the partial-birth abortion ban should not be construed as an isolated effort, saying it was wrong to presume the law was "not part of a concerted effort to roll back the hard-won rights of American women."
Obama said the decision had encouraged an Alabama lawmaker to introduce a measure to ban all abortions. "With one more vacancy on the Court, we could be looking at a majority hostile to a woman's fundamental right to choose for the first time since Roe versus Wade and that is what is at stake in this election," Obama claimed.
The senator said he had a long tradition of support for legalized abortion, citing his efforts in the Illinois State Senate and his classes as a law professor. "I have worked on these issues for decades now," he said. "I put Roe at the center of my lesson plan on reproductive freedom when I taught Constitutional Law. Not simply as a case about privacy but as part of the broader struggle for women's equality."
The dissent of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg in Gonzales v. Carhart won praise from Obama while Justice Anthony Kennedy, who spoke for the majority, was held up for ridicule.
"The only thing more disturbing than the decision was the rationale of the majority. Without any hard evidence, Justice Kennedy proclaimed, 'It is self-evident that a woman would regret her choice.' He cited medical uncertainty about the need to protect the health of pregnant women. Even though the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists found no such uncertainty. Justice Kennedy knows many things, my understanding is he does not know how to be a doctor," Obama said.
On the topic of judicial appointments, Obama reaffirmed his opposition to the confirmation of Supreme Court Justices Roberts and Alito, who are believed to be hostile to the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
Obama also depicted his opponents as divisive, saying, "They want us to believe that there's nothing that unites us as Americans—there's only what divides us. They'll seek out the narrowest and most divisive ground."
Senator Obama said he was "absolutely convinced that culture wars are so nineties," saying it was "time to turn the page."
"We're tired about arguing about the same ole' stuff," he continued. And I am convinced we can win that argument. If the argument is narrow, then oftentimes we lose."
He said abortion advocates should emphasize their support for women to have the "same chances" as men.

With all do respect Senator, let's not just give them the same chances as men in general. Let's give them the same chance as you. Correct me if I am wrong but did you or did you not have your brain violently sucked out of your head long after the point at which you could feel pain? Based on these comments that may still be up for debate.