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Lookee everyone, the Preznit's made a proclamation! As much as it might turn your stomach, you have to read all of this. Just to believe it. Even for this administration the rhetoric makes the hypocrisy eagle soar to heights previously unimagined outside of the deepest fantasies of John Ashcroft
If you've averse to clicking links that lead to the White House Official Site (and believe me, I understand and sympathize), I've taken the liberty of providing the full text of the proclamation after the jump. Then after that is the meat of the diary.
So what are you just sitting there reading this useless part for? Go!
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
Our Nation was founded on the belief that every human being has rights, dignity, and value. On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, we underscore our commitment to building a culture of life where all individuals are welcomed in life and protected in law.
America is making great strides in our efforts to protect human life. One of my first actions as President was to sign an order banning the use of taxpayer money on programs that promote abortion overseas. Over the past 5 years, I also have been proud to sign into law the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, and a ban on partial-birth abortion. In addition, my Administration continues to fund abstinence and adoption programs and numerous faith-based and community initiatives that support these efforts.
When we seek to advance science and improve our lives, we must always preserve human dignity and remember that human life is a gift from our Creator. We must not sanction the creation of life only to destroy it. America must pursue the tremendous possibilities of medicine and research and at the same time remain an ethical and compassionate society.
National Sanctity of Human Life Day is an opportunity to strengthen our resolve in creating a society where every life has meaning and our most vulnerable members are protected and defended including unborn children, the sick and dying, and persons with disabilities and birth defects. This is an ideal that appeals to the noblest and most generous instincts within us, and this is the America we will achieve by working together.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim Sunday, January 22, 2006, as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. I call upon all Americans to recognize this day with appropriate ceremonies and to reaffirm our commitment to respecting and defending the life and dignity of every human being.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirtieth.
GEORGE W. BUSH
My second semester at the University of Pittsburgh, I took an Honors section of Western Civilization covering 1650 to the First World War. I hated it and the professor was the biggest wanker on earth (not named "Joe Biden") but that's besides the point. One of the numerous handouts we had to read was called "Debate with Condorcet" which took John Adams' margin notes from a volume of Condorcet's work and arranged them like a debate. Allow me to demonstrate:
C: Statement X from his work
A: Adams' notes in praise or criticism of Statement X
See? I liked it. I was tempted to buy Pat Buchanan's seminal work "The Death of the West" (seminal because the pages with the text are really only good for wiping semen on) and do the same thing, but then I realized that would involve giving my money to Pat Buchanan.
Bottom line is this...the above proclamation managed to revive my broken outrage meter and send it roaring like the proverbial race car in the fuckin' red. I could blow.
So without further adieu, I offer you...Raybin's Debate With Bonzo!
B: Our Nation was founded on the belief that every human being has rights, dignity, and value.
R: And right out of the gate you prove you never read the Declaration of Independence did you? This nation was founded on the belief that all are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Sheesh. Even the sadly undereducated products of your No Child Left Behind Act can at least come up with the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" bit.
Though certainly many thought all had value...especially if you were black, you had enormous cash value! Ohhhhh...somebody get me a saucer of milk! Raybin 1, Founding Fathers, Zilch.
Moving on...
B:On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, we underscore our commitment to building a culture of life where all individuals are welcomed in life and protected in law.
Who do you mean by "our" commitment, George? My fellow lefties and I would welcome such a thing. But the record tends to show that your side is rather against such a thing.
Wait, I know where you're going with this...this little song and dance is nothing more than a thinly-veiled attempt to assert the patently absurd doctrine that the unbaked lumps of dough called fetuses are in fact distinct individuals.
Oh, you sneaky dog you. Rascal!
B:America is making great strides in our efforts to protect human life.
R:Haw, haw, haw. Tell it to the Iraqis. Or the Afghanis. Or how about all those people we saved in Darfur! Any residents of New Orleans want to comment here? Oh wait, that's right, you abandoned them to die.
B:One of my first actions as President was to sign an order banning the use of taxpayer money on programs that promote abortion overseas.
R: Mmm-hmm. Meanwhile, you diverted all that taxpayer money you saved (which no doubt numbered in the hundreds of millions...cough) and used it to promote death, destruction, and torture overseas.
Sanctity of huh?
B:Over the past 5 years, I also have been proud to sign into law the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, and a ban on partial-birth abortion.
The Born-Alive Infants? George, do you even know what that means? We already have a name for an infant that's born alive...it's called a fucking BABY, you dolt. Jesus, what kind of vile newspeak term is that, anyway?
And partial-birth abortion doesn't even exist, so huzzah for you. Hey, did you sign a ban on leprechauns and Shangri-La too?
B:In addition, my Administration continues to fund abstinence and adoption programs and numerous faith-based and community initiatives that support these efforts.
R: Because those abstinence programs have seen so fucking successful.
B:When we seek to advance science and improve our lives, we must always preserve human dignity and remember that human life is a gift from our Creator.
R: The difference is that you only want the "science" that tells you what you want to hear...which isn't really science at all.
And human life is the result of a male inserting his penis into the female's vagina and having an orgasm, thus ejaculating millions of tiny things called "sperm cells" inside of her. (Stay with me, George, I don't know if you know how this works. It's real science.) Every so often one of these tiny little guys (really tiny! Yes, smaller than a flea, even!) swims his way to another cell called an "egg." If these two things unite, we have what will, upon birth, become a human being.
Don't see God in any of that, I don't.
Oh, and as for the human dignity you love to promote...tell it to these guys.
B:We must not sanction the creation of life only to destroy it.
R: Bwahahahahahahaha! Oh, you are the funniest George not also named Burns. I know, let's ask Karla Faye Tucker what she thinks about that statement. Hmm? Oh you signed the order sentencing her to death and then mocked her? Along with 151 others put to death during your tenure as governor?
They say from the mouth of babes comes wisdom, so maybe a better idea would be asking this lad.
B:National Sanctity of Human Life Day is an opportunity to strengthen our resolve in creating a society where every life has meaning and our most vulnerable members are protected and defended including unborn children, the sick and dying, and persons with disabilities and birth defects.
R: Not abandoning the sick and dying? George, tell me, when have you EVER gone to bat for any dying person not named "Terri Schiavo." What about the 18,000 Americans who unnecessarily die every year because they don't have the health insurance to get treated properly?
The most vulnerable members of society? Wouldn't those be the poverty stricken or the homeless or the malnourished children? I'm getting the sneaking suspicion you're referring to fetuses again, George. I'm starting to think you may have an obsession here and should seek psychiatric help. Because certainly this rhetoric is perfectly sincere on your part and would never be used to shore up a crumbling base and gain cheap political points.
B: This is an ideal that appeals to the noblest and most generous instincts within us, and this is the America we will achieve by working together.
R: Only with someone else leading us.
B:I call upon all Americans to recognize this day with appropriate ceremonies and to reaffirm our commitment to respecting and defending the life and dignity of every human being.
R: The most appropriate celebration of a day celebrating the sanctity of human life would be to impeach you, try you, convict you, and run you out of the country on a rail to the Hague so you can face justice for crimes against humanity.
But I won't hold my breath.