July 15th 2008
Black Abortions And GOP Funders (No Connection)
E
ven though it’s after noon and I still haven’t posted anything on C-SM, I did get up pretty early this morning – 9 a.m. or so – and finding none of the clan ready to get up yet, I downloaded today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal into my Kindle - it took 75 cents and about 45 seconds to complete the transaction – and strolled over to the La Quinta Resort’s restaurant for granola from the breakfast buffet, which I woke up craving.
I used the Kindle’s underlining capability to highlight areas of interest I thought I’d share with my (mostly) non-vacationing (presumably) readers. I’ve linked to the on-line stories, some of which you may need subscriptions to read.
I’ll cover two stories here; the rest may become full posts if vacation time permits.
William McGurn wrote in The NAACP and Black Abortions about the shocking incidence of abortions in the black community and the NAACP’s failure to deal with it. It thought this passage was particularly illustrative; it follows a discussion of Dr. Alveda King, MLK’s neice, now an ardent opponent of abortion in general and black abortion in particular:
What Dr. King is alluding to is that abortion disproportionately affects African-Americans. A fact sheet from the Guttmacher Institute puts it this way: “Black women are 4.8 times as likely as non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion.” The Centers for Disease Control further report what this means: While about one out of every five white pregnancies ends in abortion, it’s nearly one out of every two for African-Americans.
Amazing how terse and unemotional words can be, especially when written by Guttmacher, a primary non-profit supporter of abortion, or a government agency.
Yes, the article does get into the eugenic beliefs that were core to Planned Parenthood’s formation, and the recent expose about Planned Parenthood’s willingness to accept funding from sources posing as racists who wanted the money used to kill black babies.
Now that the frighteningly abortion-radical Barack Obama supposedly represents black America, the chances of this dreadful situation changing any time soon is remote.
The big Page One profile today is of the GOP’s answer to George Soros, Vegas billionaire Sheldon Adelson, the money behind Freedom’s Watch, the GOP’s answer to MoveOn.org.
Adelson is an international casino owner with operations in Vegas and China, which means he’s gotten rich of the misery of others, the breakdown of families crushed by gambling debt, and kowtowing to the Beijingoists in order to get rights to build casinos in the People’s Republic.
Am I happy that someone who makes his living in such a dreadful and disgusting manner is bankrolling GOP 521s? Not really. Am I likely to contribute to Freedom’s Watch? Probably. Sometimes in politics you just have to hold your nose, and this is such a case because I’m with Adelson on two out of three of his main beliefs: The threat of Islamofascism and support for Israel. (The third big threat to America in his book is unionization of casinos. Like I say, I’m holding my nose.)
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July 15th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Dear Laer,
Yes, some people’s lives are ruined by gambling. Same with alcohol and drugs. And donuts.
I remember a discussion on, I think, C-SPAN between an ardent opponent of gambling and a spokesman for casino gambling. The latter pointed out that the take from slot machines is fixed by law at slightly under five percent. The, at that time, average gambler pushed about $100 per hour through a slot machine. Their cost of entertainment – $5/hour.
I was living in Connecticut then and commuting to Manhattan. I checked out some deals and found that I and the Mrs. could fly to Las Vegas for 3 days, see a couple of first rate shows, stay at a nice hotel & c for about the price of a nice dinner and a Broadway show.
Regards,
Roy