Prince William Del. Bob Marshall, R-13th, has offered his own rather dark explanation for birth defects and child disabilities: divine retribution for women who have had abortions. Marshall told a crowd that the Bible says that the first born is a gift to God, resulting in “special punishment” for those who have abortions.
At a press conference, Marshall stated “The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children, . . . In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”
I am not why people like Marshall would want to spend eternity with a being who imposes birth defects on infants as punishments for their parents. Of course, he did not explain what those other men and women did to warrant their miscarriages and birth defects.
The press conference involved various Christian clergy calling for the elimination of state funding for Planned Parenthood because the organization provides abortions.
Marshall insists that Planned Parenthood should be called ” ‘Planned Barrenhood’ because they have nothing to do with families, they have nothing to do with responsibility.”
The only funding Planned Parenthood receives from the state is from Medicaid reimbursements and amount to about $35,000 in the 2009 fiscal year.
Marshall’s official bio boasts “a personal library of 2000+ books.” It certainly seems to reaffirm Voltaire’s statement that “the multitude of books is making us ignorant.”
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AY–
A socialist is a compendium of names of people who like to party…in the Great White North. My favorite kind of party is the heathen hoedown–only we don’t square dance. We do something known as the rhombus rumba.
I’m pretty sure I do too.
I think I know
I suppose but what is a socialist? In the great white north?
SueSponte–
You’re probably right. Praise the Lord and cast aspersions on others.
Only in benighted Virgina. I reckon his house is filled with pictures of Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh and Palin and flags and Bibles all over the place.
You asked me about the bible and something about widows and orphans and Mary.
ECookie,
What?
AY – Beats me. I live in the Great White North surrounded by godless socialists.
Thank-you all for the info. I’ve never seen that kind of pepper in the produce dept.’s in this area, if I do I will definately stay away.
Don’t get me wrong, I like hot….however if it’s going to double as a paint stripper it’s not my thing.
BIL,
Ditto on the Indian Cuisine. I love red curry, especially in Thai and Cambodian cuisine…yum. I think the problem with the yellow curry is about smell, as I have never actually tried it. I grew up in a rahter low income burrough in Montreal amoung a lot of immigrants. Many of thse immigrants came from India and Pakistine, so the smell of curry was always everywhere!!! I am terribly sensitive to bad smells and as a result have essential oils burning all the time while I’m home ( not that my house smells bad, the oils just smell really good ). I also smell of Satsuma all the time because I practically bathe in the stuff.
I am cooking Thai food.
Alas, fellow bloggers, you have now made me hungry.
So I bid you adieu and retire to the kitchen area to start this evening’s grazing activities.
Although I hear that siren call of BBQ echoing in my head . . .
I am game swartmore mom….let’s go Thursday.
Bryon,
Lets say this I have a fresh sliced jalapeno with just about every meal that I have at home. Its good stuff….
You know those ornamental peppers that they have at Christmas called Christmas Peppers. The reason they say that they are unsafe to eat is because you never know what the scoville units going to be.
The Scotch Bonnet will peel paint off of a car window.
roflol
That’s just wrong.
It is hard to beat a good Cubano though. That’s a fine sandwich.
People complain when I have flautas….
I have a perfect moderately priced restaurant in mind. It is a Latin Cafe. It has everything from Cubanos to flautas. They have an excellent bakery with a tres leches cake.
cANADIAN eH:
it is a very hot pepper, I think it is also called a Habanero. They are a very high on the Scoville scale. If AY just needs a drink of water he is a mans man (or a womans woman as the case may be).
they have a very nice orange color, actually similar to the lighter colored orange color in AY’s post above. One small piece about the size of your fingernail will heat up most any dish.
Scotch bonnet is a Caribbean pepper. It is not used in Tex Mex or Mexican food.
Canadian,
It’s a pepper you can strip varnish with. One of those so hot you dare not work with them not wearing gloves. It’s a mistake most people make only once.
And for the record, it’s not the heat of curry’s that bother me. It’s the flavor combinations of some and the general “overuse” in Indian cooking. I tend to like the way Thai food uses the curries with a lighter touch. I have a friend who spent quite a bit of time in India in the Peace Corp and she told me that the over-spicing is because they are very often covering up the taste of bad ingredients in a traditionally poor country – which makes sense as that is how almost all sauce traditions started, a way to cover meat that was going over.