We had a film crew from South Africa at the house today interviewing Charmaine on the campaign.

The rest of the world is confused at our continuing frictional discourse on abortion. Most of the world has real restrictions on abortion on national levels. The world does not understand that we do not.

The USA is one of the few countries in the world that has abortion on demand for any reason through all nine months (and longer under the Obama Born Alive Abortion Plan). Including China where the government makes the demand -- not the mother.

Unless the baby is a girl -- then everyone wants the child dead...

Or in India where abortion also is used for sex selection to allow only male babies born. Because boys are superior to girls as all advanced nations know.

USA abortion proponents tell us that the "health of the mother" is the only exception. Scare quotes are used in print and air quotes are used in conversation as John McCain does.

The quoting is used because the "health" issue is the exception that swallows the rule as Clarke Forsythe at Americans United for Life reminds us. Because anything, anything can be interpreted as "health." As in mental health. As in a bad hair day. Any reason is sufficient reason to abort.

There are no exceptions.

The Supreme Court has so ruled. Not we the people.

This was the background for the reporting by Joan Biskupic at USA TODAY in
Election comes at key point for high court's stance on abortion,

"This is a historic election," says Charmaine Yoest, [Ph.D.] president of Americans United for Life. "With the next president having the opportunity to appoint one, two or even more justices," she adds, the election could change the law "on the life issue."

Ed Stoddard at Reuters writes, Win Or Lose, Sarah Palin To Be A Political Force,

If McCain loses the exit polls will be scoured but many pundits seem likely to blame it on centrist concerns about Palin during a financial crisis.

"It's really clear that there are some people out there who would like to make her a scapegoat if things don't go their way Tuesday," said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life Action, which opposes abortion rights.

"But she's has very clearly connected with the base of the party and the life and family voters and I think that is going to give her a really strong base going forward whatever happens," she said.

Jessica Arons writing at the Huffington Post has the best summation of the state-by-state, incremental Pro-Life strategy in Not All Politics Is Local: Connecting the Dots on Abortion Initiatives,

California Proposition 4 is endorsed by Americans United for Life, among others.

This is an organization that has worked to slowly erode women's access to abortion care with bills that limit available abortion methods after 12 to 13 weeks of pregnancy; require waiting periods, biased counseling, and ultrasound viewings prior to an abortion; create burdensome and medically unnecessary regulations for abortion clinics; assert that fetuses feel pain during an abortion; and allow health care employees to refuse to counsel, refer, or treat patients for any service to which they object.

She intends it to be dire and evil, but it comes out good and accurate. Something Biblical in there...

Deacon Keith Fournier at Catholic On Line has SPECIAL: Interview with AUL Action's Charmaine Yoest on 'Open Letter to Barack Obama'

Your Business Blogger(R) also recommends Values Voters

CatholicWifeAndMom

Obama the Abortionist

Makeup of U.S. Supreme Court Hangs in the Balance

J. Margaret Datiles, staff counsel for Americans United for Life representing the interests of the weakest citizens of the United States and abroad has an article in The Washington Times, A price on your head. Good read. Would get us ready for money saving suicide plans under an Obama administration.

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The easiest tactic to sell anything is to find Pain. Maximize it, magnify it, monetize it.

We Are The Change, election night 1988

There is some economic Pain in the American people. Obama promises to heal this nation and heal this pain with Change.

Change from Capitalism to Marxism. To "spread the wealth around."

As Wes Pruden writes in A game-changer by Obama, we are at the close of the biggest sales and marketing pitch in history. Pruden reports,

To redistribute wealth, you first have to confiscate it from those who earned it with hard work, and the way to do that is with confiscatory taxes. Then you give it to those who didn't earn it.

But do the American people really want to change to a new economic system? A centrally controlled economy? A Change to Marxism?

Even with a half-billion dollar marketing campaign and its extension in the compliant main stream media and a single quarter of negative growth, the voters have still not bought the Barack bill of goods. Pain as bad as it's been in decades.

Barack Obama has trouble selling this Change to more than 50 percent of the public.

This means that there is still hope for capitalism in our country. Hope for our 200 year-old tradition.

Every new presidential candidate runs on some version of change. Your Business Blogger(R) joyfully attended the Election Night victory party on November 8, 1988.

The theme of the celebration? "We Are The Change." And this was from Reagan to Bush. (A Republican rockin' party...no alcohol was served 'til after 8pm.)

The word "Change" has come to mean a bit more in this campaign season in the Obama sales pitch.

We enjoy an orderly transition of power every few years. Let us pray that change is only in political individuals.

Not in an economic tradition.

This week, I asked my college business class when the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith was written.

"1930...?" guessed one of my better students. This was as far back as she would dare recede into ancient history. Not the 200 years to 1776.

Two hundred years of tradition that unleashed the individual's spirit to create and to provide and to enrich. Centuries of building an economic powerhouse that dominates the world. Created by American Exceptionalism.

Quin Hillyer writes at The American Spectator,

There is something special about this country. The United States is exceptional. We are blessed by the good Lord, and in turn we have done more, far more, than any other people to spread freedom across the globe, and prosperity across the globe, and human rights across this great good Earth. We are a particularly good people...

Benjamin Franklin wondered if we, a good and virtuous people, could keep a republic, a system of government that would enable the system of capitalism.

Obama promises a change to Marxism. Other changes are sure to follow, if he is elected.

Thank you (foot)notes,

Hillyer continues comparing McCain to Obama,

We are a particularly good people -- and John McCain understands all this and believes it with every fiber of his being, down to his very marrow, in a way that is deeply spiritual in nature.

There is nothing fake about McCain's belief in American Exceptionalism. His belief in this is as genuine, and as deeply felt, as is a son's love for his father. He will defend this country, fight for this country, with every last breath in his body...

So there you have it: John McCain as a patriot firmly rooted in the American traditions of free enterprise, limited government, strong defense, personal accountability, and a decent respect for the cultural standards of the broad middle of the American public.

Those are the constituent elements of American exceptionalism -- and to his great credit, John McCain is an American exceptionalist, and an exceptional American.

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Yesterday, Charmaine says, "We got hate mail."

"Success!" I replied.

Your Business(R) Blogger teaches marketing at the local college and advises clients on the effectiveness of advertising.

AUL's Open Letter to Obama

The return on investment (ROI) in the for-profit businesses should be sales generated.

But not-for-profits have a different type of "product" peddled. The purpose of a non-profit is to improve the human condition.

So when a non-profit places a media buy, how does Your Business Blogger(R) suggest measuring success?

Hate Mail.

In for-profit, we measure love.
In non-profits, we measure hate.

Our country is evenly and bitterly divided into two competing world views. The animosity is so great and the two camps have opinions so different that we all might as well be on different planets.

We non-profit marketers are now interplanetary ambassadors. Captain Kirk never had it so hard.

So measure the "good" ad with "bad" feedback.

The Alert Reader might suggest that media hits could be an immediate proxy for any ad campaign effectiveness. But here in the non-profit world, the marketing manager should measure opposing, hateful articles, not the friendlies. Getting your friends to agree is helpful, to be sure. Getting the opposition reacting is better.

On Reasoned Audacity we limit, moderate and edit hate-comments, because most are not helpful and make for atrocious reading. Motto: Delectare et Docere.

To Please and To Instruct.

Hate-mail is not pleasing to read. A wise marketer measures this mail, crunches this data, but uses only for internals, not public consumption -- which would look like whining. Complaining about all the stoopid people on that other planet.

As Jack Welch advises: Never be a victim.

And as politicians are wont to say, "Throw a rock into a pack of dogs: the one that yelps is the one that got hit."

Measure the hits by the number of yelps.

Americans United for Life Action published an open letter in a full page in the Dayton Daily News, an Ohio newspaper . Back page, section A. Good size and location. Marketers would prefer more frequency than a one-time media buy. But a good ad "sells" in more than the buy in a particular geographic location.

Today, effective prints ads are picked up by alternative media and broadcast-cable outlets.

(Goodness, during the Huckabee campaign, Ed Rollins got media attention for an ad he didn't even run.)

See Charmaine's Open Letter to Senator Obama here and at the jump.

Read the ad and let us know if you think it "sells" -- if it persuades.

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Thank you (foot)notes:

Letter to Obama Asks for Answer on Parental Involvement Laws

Group Reminds Voters Barack Obama Wants All Pro-Life Laws Overturned.

The patron saint of marketing John Wanamaker once quipped that "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half." Sometime a manager just gets lucky.

See LifeNew.com.

Americans United for Life Action Press Release.

From The Family Foundation.

Anglicans Ablaze.

Value Voters

Alliance Alert from ADF

Save the Little Humans.

Catholic Fire.

Continue Reading »

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After I hit the send button a friend alerted me that I had just made the biggest blunder of my career.

About a decade ago Your Business Blogger(R) was helping a good friend and fellow board member of the Family Foundation in Virginia, Ruble Hord, make a run for the House of Delegates.

The Yoests and Jim Gilmore

I emailed an invitation to an event to 200 of our closest friends to help raise funds for his effort for conservative values in central Virginia.

But I made a mistake. A whopper. I embarrassed my boss, hurt the candidate, and got a sarcastic write up by Tyler Whitley in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

(My complete humiliation was averted in that the RTD didn't run a picture, as they would with most Republican criminals...)

My mistake?

I used the wrong computer. A government computer, owned by the tax payers of The Commonwealth.

I goofed. I forgot where I was, working day and night, non-stop, intense pressure, new on the job, etc and etc and whining etc...

The Governor through his chief of staff wrote me a scathing letter of reprimand that left burn scars to this day (seen and unseen). His deputy hand delivered the letter and carried out the, um, verbal corrective interview.

Even though said deputy and I are friends today -- it was not a pretty sight back then.

All this happened in a few hours. Tyler Whitley published his article the next day.

The only thing that kept me from being terminated (serving at The Pleasure of the Governor) was my instant remorse to the CEO's quick action.

Such an "oversight" eg stoopidity, on my part did not need to be evaded or minimized. I was wrong. I violated the public trust.

And the boss made sure that I knew it.

Fortunately, it was only a one day story, but it felt much, much worse.

The Governor who issued the stern, public and immediate reprimand was James Gilmore.

Now running for Senator in Virginia.

This is the difference between the liberal/socialists Obama/Warner and the conservative/capitalists McCain/Gilmore.

When Gilmore saw one of his people using government property to advance a political agenda he did not cover up, did not stonewall, did not deflect. He did the right thing, even if it meant a public flogging of a brilliant staffer political appointee.

Note what the liberal/socialist's team of the Obama/Warner ticket does when government property is used to malign "Joe the Plumber."

Nothing.

Nothing.

There will be no investigation, no checking the facts, no public apology. No media spotlight either, but that's outside the scope of this post.

A Gilmore conservative staffer used a government computer and was publicly displayed in the light.

A Warner/Obama liberal staffer used a government computer and is quietly hidden in the dark.

Vote for Jim Gilmore for honest, open government. He lives out public service transparency.

I'm proof.

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Obama is letting the world know that he's got plans for US All.

Obama has his priorities.

And what's the very first thing Obama says he will do?

Focus like a laser beam on the economy?

End the war in Iraq?

Raise taxes on capital gains?

Nope.

The First Thing Obama will do in officeThe first thing Obama promises to do is to get the government between the parent and child.

To keep a mom from knowing if her child had an abortion.

Read the open letter from Americans United for Life to Obama: Obama ad (3).pdf.

Letter at the jump.

Be sure to visit AUL's Fight FOCA site.

See An Open Letter to Barack Obama

Continue Reading »

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FOX reporter Molly Henneberg is doing a story on Sarah Palin's speech on Special Needs Children for Special Report tonight Friday, 24 October. Hit time is 6pm.

A baby within its mother

Charmaine will be discussing Sarah Palin's passion on this Pro-Life issue. From RealClearPolitics,

One of the most wonderful experiences in this campaign has been to see all the families of children with special needs who come out to rallies and events just like this. We have a bond there. We know that children with special needs inspire a special love. You bring your sons and daughters with you, because you are proud of them, as I am of my son.

My little fella sleeps during most of these rallies, even when they get pretty rowdy. He would be amazed to know how many folks come out to see him instead of me.

When I learned that Trig would have special needs, honestly, I had to prepare my heart. At first I was scared, and Todd and I had to ask for strength and understanding. I did a lot of praying for that understanding, and strength, and to see purpose.

And what's been confirmed in me is every child has something to contribute to the world, if we give them that chance. You know that there are the world's standards of perfection, and then there are God's, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before God, and dear to Him for their own sake. And the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are most vulnerable.

As for our baby boy, Trig, for Todd and me he is only more precious because he is vulnerable. In some ways, I think we stand to learn more from him than he does from us. When we hold Trig and care for him, we don't feel scared anymore. We feel blessed...

John McCain and I have a vision in which every child is loved and cherished, and that is the spirit I want to bring to Washington.

Every Child. Born and Unborn. Please watch and let us know what you think.

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Charmaine was interviewed by Family News in Focus (called "FiNIF") a short radio program produced by James Dobson's Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs. It will run on Monday, 27 October, 2008.

The Yoests and

The Dobsons

A print version of the conversation is available on Citizen Link

Life Advocates Challenge Obama over Pro-Abortion Priorities

Americans United for Life Action is calling on Sen. Barack Obama to explain why he opposes parental-involvement laws, which are designed to protect girls from sexual predators.

The letter to Obama recounts the true story of a 14-year-old Cincinnati girl who was impregnated by her 21-year-old soccer coach. The coach, who signed in place of her parents for her to have an abortion, is in jail. Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of AUL Action, said the story underscores the need for parental-involvement laws.

Yet, according to a promise made to Planned Parenthood, the first thing Obama would do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act -- a sweeping piece of legislation that could wipe away every federal, state and local law limiting or regulating abortion.

"I'd like to know why it he supports such radical legislation that would make it impossible for us to put any limitations whatsoever on abortion," Yoest said.

-- Family News in Focus

Pro-Life Michelle Bachmann is running for re-election to Congress in a close race. We spoke to Michelle during the GOP convention in Minnesota. She believes in limited government, low taxes, winning the war and the sanctity of life.

Charmaine on Roger Hedgecock's radio program with Michelle Bachmann

She is authentic. And not liked by the liberals in media and in congress. See her short clip on condemning Planned Parenthood on the floor of Congress.

Michelle, like Sarah Palin is real. They each have five children. Adding up the Bachmanns, the Palins and our Penta-Posse, we could fix Social Security all by our selves...

Not counting Michelle and her husband Marcus's 23 foster children.

That is public service. That is love.

Charmaine spars with David Gregory at the GOP convention.

Also check out this clip at Concerned Women for America:

Your Business Blogger(R) teaches sales and marketing at the Northern Virginia Community College. The CWA clip is a world class example that appeals to this sight and sound generation.

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Your Business Blogger(R) and Charmaine came home late yesterday and installed a McCain Campaign sign near our house.

"It won't last the night," I predicted to the wife.

"Nonsense," she says, "Not in this neighborhood."

It is a polite, liberal part of Arlington, Virginia. Full of Bush-haters, anti-war, big-government tax and spend socialists. Nice people, as Democrats go.

Our friends.

Note wire where McCain sign once was.

But there were Brown Shirts among us.

The McCain sign didn't last the night.

About the only time Charmaine has been wrong. It doesn't happen much.

Your Business Blogger(R) repairing McCain Campaign sign.

Photo Credit: The Dreamer

The Alert Reader will notice the Obama signage untouched.

Maybe Republicans are the polite party. The party of life

And Democrats are the party of death. The party of the Brown Shirts.

Charmaine and I had lunch yesterday with Karl Rove and a few friends to support the work of the Susan B. Anthony List. Rove is a pro.

He reminds us that this is a close race -- two points -- and the good-guys will prevail, barely.

If we can keep our hopes up. As well as our signs.

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Charmaine and Jonah at National Review both had speaking gigs at major schools.

Q: Who Knew?
A: No one.

Charmaine lecturing on campus

I drove the wife and The Dreamer, The Dude, The Diva, The Dancer, and Baby Boo* down to Mr. Jefferson's University so Charmaine could speak on women in leadership at Darden, UVa's business school. The first thing we see are well-armed police.

Uniformed dark blue. Unsmiling.

I ask the sergeant about his job and the small gaggle of 150 women, "Crowd control?"

He looks me over. I'm holding a four-year old's hand: I am not a threat.

I am the conservative.

The cop's face moves a millimeter into what passes for a smile. His head shakes a millimeter into what passes for no.

His eyes return to the assembly. He's looking for trouble.

I speak to one of the organizers about the number of attendees, the marketing of the event...the security. (Your Business Blogger(R) cares about such things; teaching Business at the Northern Virginia Community College. Where James Carville also taught.)

The event planner whispers, "We didn't publicize the event...we weren't sure who would come..."

Even though Charmaine spent ten years at UVA, earned her Ph.D. and taught (Politics and the Family) the organizers were fearful. Charmaine, a woman and a conservative who worked for Huckabee, Pro-Life, now a president and CEO of a law firm, might cause two horrors on the Campus Grounds:

1) A violent campus protest, or, worse,

2) A good conservative turn out.

The police were out in force to keep pie throwing liberals away from the conservative speaker.

Or keep a woman from making a citizen's arrest.

Or having a Democrat scratch KKK on our monster SUV, the Huck-a-Truck.

Jonah Goldberg
and wife Jessica Gavora

The police were there to protect us from the Brown Shirts with the party of death.

The police are on the side of law and order...so far.

We have been lucky with Charmaine's public speaking in academia.

It's particularly odd because the majority of the time I speak on a college campus -- even when debating a liberal -- I'm told that I'm the first conservative they've had there for a while and that I was brought in for "balance."
You'd think if that were the case, the various administrations would at least want some credit for providing equal time.
Even though, even a brief perusal of almost any college or university's events calendar will quickly show that they could have the entire masthead of National Review speak month after month and it still wouldn't equal balance...but the idea that simply inviting one or two objectively conservative speakers every couple years provides ideological balance is just absurd.

The joke is even bigger when you discover as I have at numerous schools that many professors tell their students they shouldn't go hear conservative speakers.

Jonah Goldberg gets this right: students should get both sides of any debate.

That would be, well, Fair and Balanced...

* Alert Readers know our five children are also known as the Penta-Posse.

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Charmaine recently debated Eleanor Smeal from the Feminist Majority Foundation on Abortion restrictions in the United Kingdom.

Alert Readers will note that the CNN International host identified Charmaine as Pro-Life. Something that never happens on this side of the pond.

The host did get a bit confused about fetus and baby. Impossible for the abortion supporter to say "baby" or "mother."

This debate becomes important here in US of A because of Obama's promise to eliminate parental notification state laws and any waiting periods. Obama does not want to regular the clinical cleanliness of abortion facilities.

The GOP is the party of life. Obama is the party of death.

Charmaine is now president and CEO of Americans United for Life.

This is a media war: abortion vs pro-life; liberal vs conservative; Obama vs McCain.

So. Your Business Blogger(R) homestead watched Family Guy last night.

We wanted to follow-up on the Fast Company article by Josh Dean on the Seth MacFarlane success and his $100 million deal with FOX.

The episode: Stewie, the British-accented baby and Brian the talking dog time travel back to September 1, 1939 when N@zi Germany invaded Poland. Stewie and Brian end up in Storm Trooper uniforms...with a McCain-Palin campaign button.

Funny.

But this speaks to the projection the liberals make of their world view.

Conservative politicians want to protect life. Liberals want abortion, euthanasia, denial of care.
Conservative politicians want people to keep their own money. Liberals want high taxes and your money.
Conservatives want abortion clinics regulated. Liberals want home schoolers regulated
Conservatives want to be left alone. Liberals demand power and intrusion.

Is it possible that the H!tler Youth of the 1930's might be more comfortable in today's Party of Death than with the Rascally Republicans?

Liberals have abortion clinics to get rid of unwanted life. The National Socialists had gas ovens to get rid of unwanted life.

Not that there is any connection...

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In media interviews, is it harder to be the host or the talent -- the guest? Charmaine has had both duties on both sides of the microphone.

Alert Readers will recall that Charmaine's first interviewer gig was substitute-guest hosting for Blanquita Cullum, BQ in the Richmond radio market. ("Talk Show Host" has now become an invective used by the liberals...who can't get an audience.)

Charmaine tells Your Business Blogger(R) that being the host was the harder job. "You've got to know the content, the guests, and the hardest for me: the technology and timing." To break in on a speaking guest for a commercial break.

She is having a conversation with Mike Judge from the Christian Institute U.K. in May of this year. Mike attempted to place pro-life ads on Google and was denied. Google took ads from pro-abortion groups but not pro-lifers.

Also see Charmaine's old FRC office (with Ronald Reagan's picture in the background). She is now the president and CEO of Americans United for Life.

The case was resolved in September 2008, Google settles abortion ad case

Free Speech exists in Britain for now, less so here.

Camera work and production by Kevin McCullough MuscleHead Revolution.

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AUL Action to Bob Schieffer: Americans Want to Hear a Question About Abortion

Last update: 10:21 a.m. EDT Oct. 15, 2008

WASHINGTON, Oct 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ --

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D. president and CEO
AUL Action

As CBS News' Bob Schieffer prepares to moderate Wednesday night's final presidential candidate debate, AUL Action President Dr. Charmaine Yoest released the following letter.

Dear Mr. Schieffer,

As you prepare for Wednesday night's final presidential debate, I know that you will be working to raise questions on domestic issues that are of interest to a wide range of Americans. I encourage you to ask each candidate about his views on abortion -- something that has not been done at either of the previous debates.

Many Americans are single-issue voters when it comes to abortion, and many more view a candidate's position on abortion as one of a handful of issues on which they select a candidate.

While each candidate's position on Roe v. Wade is well known, it remains unknown what restrictions on abortion each candidate would support in order to achieve the widely agreed upon goal of reducing abortion.

And that is the question I encourage you to ask: What restrictions on abortion would you support in order to achieve the widely agreed upon goal of reducing the number of abortions in our country?

Possible follow up questions include:

-- A recent study by Dr. Michael New (University of Alabama) found that parental involvement laws reduce abortion by 13-31%.


Do you support the right of parents to be involved in the medical decisions of their minor daughters when abortion is being considered?


-- Do you support taxpayer funding for elective abortions?


-- Do you support laws that mandate abortion clinics meet minimum health and safety standards commonly applied to other types of medical practices?


-- Do you support laws requiring abortions be performed by licensed physicians?

Particularly given that Wednesday night's debate was scheduled to focus on domestic policy, the American voters need to hear each candidate respond to at least one question that addresses the topic of abortion, which is one of the central policy questions of our day.

I wish you all the best as you prepare for and moderate the debate.
Sincerely,

Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.
President & CEO
AUL Action

About AUL Action,
AUL Action is the legislative arm of Americans United for Life (AUL). The first national pro-life organization in America, AUL has been committed to defending human life through vigorous judicial, legislative, and educational efforts at both the federal and state levels since 1971. In addition, AUL has been involved in every pro-life case before the Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade.
SOURCE Americans United For Life

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Obama will not salute our flag Your Business Blogger(R) did a tour of duty in combat arms.

One of the first tasks to learn on assuming a military position was

(as Bill Clinton was slow to learn) the military salute.

Another Democrat, Obama

and the war hero,
the war injured McCain

have one thing in common with the military.

If either is elected, neither will salute.

Obama: Because he won't.

McCain: Because he can't.

It was a delight to be in a very large room with with people with big ideas. Each who loves his country.

One of the Hosts, Colin Hanna, from Let Freedom Ring, was about to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance and reminded us of legislation allowing veterans to render a hand salute, even if out of uniform, even if separated from active service.

The law was made possible by Senator Jim Inhoufe of Oklahoma -- a Republican, of course.

A conservative, of course. Who loves Jesus. Clinging to his religion and his guns...

So the next time you are at a ball game look for veterans during the National Anthem.

They'll be the ones saluting.

Inhofe Legislation Allows Veterans to Salute the Flag

By Ryan Cassin,
Thursday July 26, 2007
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today praised the
passage by unanimous consent of his bill (S.1877) clarifying U.S. law to allow veterans
and servicemen not in uniform to salute the flag.

Current law (US Code Title 4, Chapter 1) states that veterans and servicemen not in
uniform should place their hand over their heart without clarifying whether they can or
should salute the flag.

"The salute is a form of honor and respect, representing pride in one's military service," Senator Inhofe said.

"Veterans and service members continue representing the military services even when not in uniform.

"Unfortunately, current U.S. law leaves confusion as to whether veterans and service members out of uniform can or should salute the flag. My legislation will clarify this regulation, allowing veterans and servicemen alike to salute the flag, whether they are in uniform or not.

"I look forward to seeing those who have served saluting proudly at baseball games, parades, and formal events. I believe this is an appropriate way to honor and recognize the 25 million veterans in the United States who have served in the military and remain as role models to others citizens.

Those who are currently serving or have served in the military have earned this right, and their recognition will be an inspiration to others."

See
Gold Star Moms
Visit a cranky vet
Respect for the Flag

Alert Readers have also noticed that Barack Obama has no American Flag on his campaign aircraft. It is not known if he will remove the flag from Air Force One, if he is elected...

Barack Obama also demonstrates that it is impossible for him to support the troops. He took millions from Bill Ayers, the domestic terrorist who attempted to blow up the Pentagon.

How can Obama support the troops and support a terrorist who tried to kill the troops? Obama is not qualified to be commander in chief.

From NRO,

"There's reason to doubt that oft-repeated pledge of 'supporting the troops' when you've worked for a man who tried to kill the troops."

UPDATE on new regs at the jump.

UPDATE: 23 Dec 2008, New York Times, Obama Tries Out His Salute, By Jeff Zeleny,

KAILUA, Hawaii - He's not the commander in chief yet, but was President-elect Barack Obama briefly practicing his salute on Sunday?

On the first morning of his vacation here, Mr. Obama arrived at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii for his daily workout. As he walked out of the Semper Fit Center, his gray T-shirt soaked in sweat, he lifted his right hand and gave a quick salute to two Marines in fatigues who were standing in the distance.

[Reagan knew how to salute; it was within his experience.
The Cubscout is saluting.
Expect homosexuals in both the military and the Boyscouts
under Obama.]

The brief moment was not captured by cameras. Photographs and video were not permitted to be taken on the military base, according to campaign aides.

Mr. Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, opened their day with a 45-minute workout inside a large gymnasium at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, which is located on the Mokapu Penninsula on the windward side of Oahu, about 30 minutes outside Honolulu. It is sunny and warm here, a world away, at least in terms of the weather, from Chicago.

Alert Readers well know that Reagan served in uniform, like most patriots, in WWII.

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Politically Incorrect, Part 1 Over Christmas in 2000 Charmaine appeared on Bill Maher's Politically Incorrect.

With John Salley (LA Lakers), Joshua Morrow (Young and Restless) and ...Andrew Dice Clay (Face Down @ss Up).

Andrew Dice Clay made a living performing stand-up as misogynist and and more (or less). This first segment may be the only time the Alert Reader will see someone smoke a cigarette live on a network broadcast. Politically Incorrect...

Watch all three segments and learn why most of Charmaine's female talking-head friends do not do Bill Maher's shows.

Politically Incorrect, Part 2 I don't know why I let her go on a dozen times either.

Anyway. Andrew Dice Clay. Your Business Blogger(R) was the Charmaine Sherpa on this gig handling the baggage and baby. It was The Dancer, I believe. Names and birthdays kinda run together with 5 wee ones.

And we met Andrew Dice Clay and his wife and 2 kids. In the Green Room, they almost looked like a normal family, a happily married couple. If, say, a gorgeous (not that I noticed) buxom Vegas show girl were to marry your plumber.

Politically Incorrect, Part 3 Watch the third the segment for the Pro-Life debate.

Please comment and let us know what you think.

I would wager that you might be more polite and certainly more helpful than the normal liberal YouTube commentary...

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Last Thursday AUL held their annual fund raising event at the Palmer House in Chicago.

The Henry J. Hyde Defender of Life Award was presented to Jessica Shanahan, president for New Yorkers for Parental Rights. (Obama has promised that Parental Rights would be the first right to be outlawed under his administration.)

Ramesh Ponnuru from National Review gave the keynote. Key Takeaway: "What mother wants to introduce her son, The Abortionist...?"

Abortion is on the decline because of the work of AUL and the public's awareness that that abortion kills a baby.

Charmaine gave a spell-binding presentation. (Biased Opinion, Your Business Blogger(R).) PowerPoint and her notes here: AUL gala 10-9-08.ppt.

James M. Kushiner, the Executive Editor at Touchstone Magazine attended and blogged. Read his outstanding commentary at Obama Lied Fewer Died. Good Read.

Not everyone wants babies to live. See Leslie Bradshaw's list. AUL made it. This is proof of a pro-live organization's effectiveness.

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Bill Maher doesn't care much for babies. And less for marriage.

Charmaine on PI
with (the liberal) Bishop Spong.
Part One, circa 2002 Charmaine made over a dozen appearances on his old Politically Incorrect show.

So all our paths have crossed a time or two in the Green Room in his LA studio.

Usually after Your Business Blogger® just changed a stinky diaper on one of the infant Penta-Posse .

I probably did not make a compelling case for fatherhood...

Anyway.

Charmaine did work on Bill Maher's eternal perspective.

At one point Maher asked us, not rhetorically, "So what is death; a dirt nap?"

Maher sums up neatly the atheist's worldview: there is no God, no Heaven.

No Hell.

At death, it all ends on this celestial sphere. A dirt nap in a grave.

Dinesh D'Souza addresses atheism in his New York Times best seller, What's So Great About Christianity?,

From page 274,

What's So Great
About Christianity?"If sex is unhooked from the old moral restraints [marriage], there are going to be unwanted pregnancies [babies]. Here we get to atheism's second sacrament, which is abortion. [The first sacrament is orgasm.] The real horror of abortion is not that a woman kills an unborn child

but

that a woman kills her own unborn child. [Emphasis mine.]

The guilt in doing this, for all morally healthy persons, can only be tremendous.

So it is necessary for atheism to pave the way for abortion with a clear conscience.

The first step is to get rid of God, because then there is no spirit of the dead child to disturb the conscience, no hell to pay for violating the commandment against the deliberate taking of life."

Politically Incorrect,
Part 2One pregnancy in five ends in a miscarriage.

Charmaine and I had one. We still dream of that baby. Now safe on the other side.

The death still hurts and time does heal. But how much more would the hurt be if the mother was responsible for the loss of the baby?

How much more the pain if the mother murdered her baby?

The guilt these women feel must be horrendous.

Can Obama feel no pain?

I will take their heart of stone and replace it with a heart of flesh.

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Ten minutes of must view. This is what makes America Great. Not Obama.

Thank you to NRO as vector.

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The liberal Mark Warner is running against conservative Jim Gilmore for Senate in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Mark Warner says that the "Right to Lifers" and the National Rifle Association and Homeschoolers and the Christian Coalition is,

Why do these liberals hate normal people?

Warner and Obama believe in abortion on demand through nine or ten months.
Warner and Obama do not believe in the right to bear arms.
Warner and Obama do not believe parents should educate their children.
Warner and Obama believe in homosexual marriage.
Warner and Obama believe in our surrender in the wars.
Warner and Obama believe in raising our taxes.

This is normal?

Listen to the short audio clip of Mark Warner, his voice dripping with disdain, on our conservative values,

Full Disclosure: Your Business Blogger(R) served as Assistant Secretary in Health and Human Resources in governor James Gilmore's administration.

L to R: Roxane and Jim Gilmore; Charmaine and Jack Yoest

"I was told that if I voted for Barry Goldwater that there would be war in Southeast Asia.

And sure enough, I voted for Barry Goldwater and there was war in Southeast Asia," went the popular joke after Democrat Lyndon Johnson was elected president.

We are now told that if we vote for John McCain we will have endless war in Iraq. I will vote for John McCain...and if Obama steals the election -- we will, indeed, have endless war in Iraq...

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Years ago, Charmaine appeared on CNN -- Jesse Jackson's Both Sides with Mary Hartwood Futrell. And Wade Horn, at the time with Children's Bureau, HHS.

L to R: Futrell, Jackson, Horn, Yoest

Jesse Jackson kissed Charmaine's hand; a gallant gesture. Who knew he was such a gentleman?

If the Alert Voter wishes to learn what Obama would do in Education; K to 12, we can see that Obama would do exactly what Jackson would do.

They both would follow the teachers' union.

When Your Business Blogger(R) was moving kith and kin back to Ol' Virginnie, we decided on a particular High School.

But we had to live in a particular neighborhood. I could not send my kids to the school of my choice and live where I wanted to live. The Teachers' Union dictated where I would live, if I wanted that school.

I could not choose my school.

Sounds like something out of Soviet Russia...

Conservatives simply want to send their children where they want. We pay the taxes, but we cannot decide.

Liberals will send their (unaborted) children to where ever the Teachers' Union so directs.

No wonder Michelle Obama is not proud of her country...or maybe she is.

Jesse Jackson's Both Sides is no longer on the air. This edition was originally broadcast in 1992. Education Choice for our children has not changed much.

McCain wants school choice. Obama does not.

McCain wants change. Obama does not.

Watch the show here:

Full Disclosure: Your Business Blogger(R) has an undergraduate degree in Education and is currently an adjunct professor of management in the Northern Virginia Community College.

UPDATE: Alert Readers will recall that Jesse Jackson was once Pro-Life.

Charmaine reminds me that Jackson actually kissed her on the cheek. Which is less intimate that a kiss on the hand. For Hollywood. I guess...

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Solutions to Your Management Problems

Managers work to control events, instead of events controlling them. They anticipate the future . . . adapt to the present. . . and learn from the past.

* * * The Managing Management Time™ class trains managers

how to apply this philosophy to their own leadership challenges * * *

Are you running out of time...while your staff runs out of work? If your management skills need to be sharpened, join us at the Northern Virginia Community College, Arlington.

Who: Managers who need to get in control of events or to better influence results

What: An introduction to Managing Management Time™

1. Vocational vs Management Time

2. Molecule of Management

3. Followership and Leadership

4. Management and Sales

5. Development of Direct Reports

When: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 4:00 to 5:30pm

Where: NVCC, Room 304, 4600 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, 22203

Behind Holiday Inn. See Map.

Why: Improve managerial effectiveness

Cost: No Charge. Registration is required. Parking is limited.

Harvard Business Review published Managing Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? in 1974, by Bill Oncken, Jr.. The article, an edited excerpt of the MMT seminar, has gone on to become one of the two most requested reprints in the history of the Review. The training summarized in the article is sometimes called the "Monkey Management" seminar.

Jack Yoest, Adjunct Professor of Management and President of Management Training of DC, is a former Armored Cavalry Officer in Combat Arms. His military leadership training and experience guides his management philosophy at the core of Managing Management Time™. He has managed software, health care and international human resource management companies.

Jack also served in the Governor's Office of the Commonwealth Virginia as Assistant Secretary for Health and Human Resources where he acted as the Chief Technology Officer for the secretariat. He was responsible for the successful Year 2000 (Y2K) conversion for the 16,000-employee unit. He was also a manager with a medical device start-up and helped move sales from zero to over $12 million, resulting in a buy-out by Johnson & Johnson. Jack has consulted in China and India.

Questions? www.Yoest.com, Jack@Yoest.org, or call Jack at 202.215.2434 to save your spot.

Class reading at the jump.

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Allen Troupe from Iowa (where normal people live) writes,

What's wrong with this picture? A child under 18 has to have parental permission to get her ears pierced or get a tattoo. A school nurse cannot even give out an aspirin (or other pain killer) without parental OK.

Yet, pro-abortionists claim that parents shouldn't be involved in the decision of their daughter to get an abortion, a medical procedure that is way more serious than any of the other things listed. & unfortunately, in many states a girl can get an abortion without parental OK.

What are the results of this? The most common result is that a girl is raped, gets pregnant & the rapist pays for the abortion. & time & time again, when the abortion was done at a Planned Parenthood clinic, the rape (not to mention incest) was covered up. There is plenty of documentation for that fact.

Watch this enactment of a Planned Parenthood supporter,

Troupe, as commonsense would dictate, endorses Proposition 4 in California. He continues,

In California there is a initiative on the ballot to rectify this problem, Proposition 4, the Child and Teen Safety and Stop Predators Act: Sarah's Law. This law requires a 48 hr waiting period so that a parent can be notified. (There are exceptions for things such as parental abuse.)

The law is called Sarah's Law in memory of 15-year-old "Sarah". In February 1994, she visited abortionist Moshe Hachamovitch's "A to Z Women's Services" clinic in Houston, Texas. An abortion was performed on Sarah, tearing the right side of her cervix.

Sarah suffered blood poisoning, fever, chills, abdominal pain, and nausea for four days before finally being admitted to a hospital.

When hospital personnel discovered the tear and a post-abortion infection, they placed Sarah in the intensive care unit, but the infection was far too advanced and Sarah died on March 2, 1994.

Hospital physicians reported that had Sarah received prompt medical care, she would still be alive today. (From Defending Life 2007, published by Americans United for Life, Chicago)

For more information, please visit Americans United for Life. And if you in the greater Chicago-Land on October 9th, make plans to attend the AUL Annual Gala. Keynoter will be Ramesh Ponnuru speaking on The Party of Death.

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The following video clip is based on the actual Obama-cult song recorded by (non-aborted) children who were manipulated into supporting a presidential candidate...and, of course, a clip from the famous movie "Cabaret."

This might be a more accurate representation than the letter sent to the Americans United for Life office in Chicago this week. From the Party of Death.

Eyeblast at the jump.

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The best indication of future performance is past performance.

We don't know exactly who Obama will nominate for the courts, but we do know who -- and what -- he likes.

Watch Wendy Long in this compelling 60 second spot by the good-guys at the Judicial Confirmation Network:

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Alert Reader Sidney B. sends this along. What does Obama really think of the Bible and believers? Is this the man we want to lead America? Watch this 60 second clip:

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