News Updates, 3/21

Operation Rescue Leader to Pro-Lifers: Ask Gov. Sebelius to Sign Anti-Abortion Law
The leaders of Operation Rescue are calling on pro-lifers to urge Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, the pro-abortion Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee, to support pro-life legislation Kansas legislators passed Tuesday. The bill would require abortion providers to allow women access to ultrasound imagery of their unborn child before undergoing an abortion....

Barney Frank: Antonin Scalia is a ‘Homophobe’
Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said in an interview Friday on 365gay.com that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a “homophobe.”
[The Banking Queen believes his sexual lust, deviancy and perversion is something to be proud of when it's actually gravely immoral and sinful. Scalia evidently believes in God and the natural moral law. Scalia and others who believe in God and abide by His laws are reviled by reprobates like Frank. Sin and vice are violently opposed to morality and virtue.]

Notre Dame University to Give Obama Honorary Degree in Violation of USCCB Policy
White House Secretary Robert Gibbs stated today that Obama will give the commencement address at Notre Dame University this year. The school confirmed the announcement, stating on its website that Obama will also receive an honorary doctor of laws degree at the University's 164th University Commencement Ceremony at 2 p.m. May 17 in the Joyce Center on campus...
[Bishop John D'Arcy needs to step up to the plate and stop this outrage immediately. If ND continues with the scandalous outrage, it needs to be stripped of its claim of Catholicity since this act is an abandonment of all that is Christian!]

Vatican Clamps Down On Killala Latin Mass Move
A high-profile Vatican office has ordered Bishop John Fleming to make provision for the traditional Latin Mass in his Killala diocese. The move, from the powerful 'Ecclesia Dei' Commission comes after the Killala Council of Priests decided that no provision should be made for the celebration of the Mass in the Extraordinary Form....

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Barry "Chavez" Soetoro, AKA B. Hussein Obama, Seeks Increase in Oversight of Executive Pay
The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, government officials said.
[This clown wants a war, it seems...First, banks receiving bailouts, next all bank execs regardless of bailouts, next all exec pay, middle management tomorrow, and everyone else later. He wants to create a two "class" system making it easier for anointing as KING ZERO]

California February Unemployment Hits 10.5%
February jobless rate in the most populous state far exceeds national 8.1% unemployment rate.

Michigan Unemployment Hits 12.5%

Boeing handing out 900 layoff notices
Boeing is handing out another 900 layoff notices Friday, 700 of those to workers in the Puget Sound area. Spokesman Tim Healy says these are warnings that would take effect May 22. He told KING-TV these are part of the planned 10,000 job cuts Boeing announced early this year...

US Postal Service offering early retirements to 25% of its workforce
The U.S. Postal Service said it will offer early retirement to almost one in four workers, close administrative offices and eliminate more than 3,000 jobs as it grapples with a financial crisis...

Rolling Stone Nails It: "The Big Takeover"
The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution...
[***Warning*** Coarse language!]

Budget outlook significantly worse than two months ago
U.S. economic and federal budget outlook for the next two years is significantly worse than it was two months ago, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Friday. The latest forecast shows the economy contracting 1.5% this year, with the unemployment rate rising to 9.4% later in the year...

If you roll your own smokes...
Bulk tobacco tax of 23.50 per pound goes into effect April 1st, better stock up now

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"We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism."
- Nikita Khrushchev, Former Premier of USSR