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Last month I wrote in a post called "Tyranny: Healthcare Reform Threat to Life, Liberty, and Property:

The plan adequately address concerns that taxpayer money and government support will not be used to support or encourage abortions. It is not hard to imagine that a government that is concerned with keeping down the costs of healthcare coverage may somehow with some policy push for the abortion of special needs children who will indeed be a great cost on a national healthcare system.

Many of Obama's thugs and supporters yell "you lie" at this charge and some even challenged me to a fist fight in order to force me to retract comments like this one. But the truth is that the Pelosi healthcare bill does allow taxpayer money to flow to abortion clinics, and in a way, this new healthcare bill will provide billions in funding to abortion clinics around the state.

Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, you should be against this heathcare bill because of those provisions. Of course, being pro-life means that you are against abortion, and this bill funds abortions. Being pro-choice means you support people's freedom to choose whether or not to get an abortion, and this bill forces people who are opposed to abortion to fund them, violating their freedom of choice. This healthcare bill that Pelosi, Reid, and Obama are supporting and working to pass is not pro-choice or pro-life; it is pro-abortion.

Don't take my word for it- it is in the bill. Page 110 of HR 3962 says:

Nothing in this healthcare bill shall be construed as preventing the health insurance option from providing for or prohibiting coverage of services described in paragraph (4) (A). (4) (A) Abortion Services.

Repeat- the 900 billion dollars in taxpayer money that is going to be spent on this act is not to be prevented from being spent to abort babies. The government by law is saying that the money can and indeed will be sent to abortion clinics, and you, even though you pay taxes and may be pro-life, will have your liberty taken from you to be made to support attempts to end life.

Furthermore, page 148 section 259 says this:

Nondiscrimination on Abortion and Respect for Rights of Conscience: (A) Nondiscrimination- a Federal agency or program and any state or local government that receives federal assistance under this act (or an amendment under this act), may not... require that any health care plan created or regulated under this act to subject any individual or institutional health care entity to discrimination on the basis that the health care entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer to abortions.

Repeat- anyone who gets money from this plan (which includes nearly every aspect of the healthcare system) will not be allowed to discriminate against anyone who wants their abortion paid for. Again, more evidence that this Pelosi, Reid, and Obama plan not only supports your tax money going to fund abortions, but prohibits it from not going to support the aborting of babies.

Please let everyone you know that your god-given rights to life, liberty, and property are under attack by a government that wants to impose tyranny on you. Do not support this healthcare plan, whatever rhetoric or fancy phrases or pretty poetry is used, because it openly supports with taxpayer money more abortions in our great nation.

Michel Amarger writes:

The musicals made in Egypt and Asia form a genre that is always highly popular with audiences in Africa. Yet the continent's filmmakers seem practically to ignore this art form, which has fed their own imaginations. What with the Egyptian musicals, Asian adventure films, and American productions, little place is left on Africa's screens for its local tales. However, even if African productions still face the same distribution difficulties on the continent, their singularity has developed and become more polished since Independence. It a priori seems paradoxical, therefore, that Africa's directors only rarely go down the musical route in cultures that are impregnated with music, song, dance, humour

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From the AP:

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama on Saturday doled out presidential M&Ms and dried fruit mixes to more than 2,000 trick-or-treaters, marking their Halloween at a White House event partly aimed at honoring military families.

A big, stuffed, black spider dangled in a web of string from the top of the portico, and pumpkins had sprouted up around the columns. Meanwhile, an odd cast of figures wondered around the North Lawn, including skeletons playing musical instruments, walking trees and "Star Wars" characters. The night's arrangements took a month or two to prepare, the White House said.

It took the White House TWO months to decorate for Halloween. Two months. How long did it take you to decorate your house for Halloween? A day? Perhaps you have a massive mansion and it takes 2 days? Imagine you have the full power and money of the United States government at your disposal, and an extensive and well-trained union grounds crew- would it take 3 days to plan and decorate then? Only government could spend two months planning and working to decorate one single house for a holiday.

Imagine when the government that takes two months of planning to decorate a house for Halloween runs your healthcare needs, your energy needs, and your businesses. That is scary indeed!

Nontsikelelo Veleko lives and works in Johannesburg. She is a highly original photographer and project manager/co-coordinator at the Market Photo Workshop, where she previously trained in the art of photography.

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Last November, Chancellor Rhee appeared on the cover of Time.  During the past year , the media coverage has continued on all things Rhee with a very different slant and more critical eye. I imagine if Time were to write an anniversary edition on Rhee this November, it might read something like this : How to Ruin America's Schools.