Tell It Like It Is

Friday 20 March 2009

Dodo Internet and the Mafia - the hidden link

It's 7:47pm, and the phone rings during dinner.

I leap from the table, and run to the office. "Hello can I help you?" is my standard line when answering the phone.

Silence.

Then a very brief flash of music. Aha - it's obviously a telemarketer.

A voice with not-too-thick an accent greets me. "Hello, I am calling from Dodo."

Hmmm - I have worked for Dodo Internet in the past, so maybe it's not a telemarketer after all.

"I am ringing about our services and how we can save you money. First, I have to inform you that this call is being recorded for quality purposes."

Ah - ok, so it IS a telemarketer.

He continues right on with his script :

"Let's start with your mobile phone."

Time for some fun... I love playing with telemarketers. So let's try something new :

"What if I'm a member of the Mafia and I don't want my voice to be recorded?" I enquire.

"I'm sorry?" he asks.

I repeat myself, slightly slower. "What if I'm a member of the Mafia and I don't want my voice to be recorded?"

"Sir, you don't have to be a member to take advantage of our specials" he replies.

It's a lost cause. No point making fun if his English is so bad he doesn't get the jokes. So I hang up.

But it's official : I have it directly from a Dodo Internet representative that you don't need to be a member of the Mafia to join Dodo! What a relief! My Mafia membership was due to expire soon... :o)

Friday 6 March 2009

Women's Rights & Safe Abortion

(Continued from Women's Rights & Equal Responsibility)

Norway and Sweden partnered with the International Planned Parenthood Federation to host a panel on “Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Empowerment.” Both governments expressed the need to prioritize “sexual and reproductive rights.” In his brief address, Norwegian State Secretary Hakon Gulbrandsen proclaimed that “sexual rights are a cornerstone to gender equality” and that “safe abortion is a crucial component of sexual and reproductive rights.” (emphasis mine)

Hang on a second! This is wildly contradictory.

For starters - there is no such thing as a "safe" abortion.

Almost always at least one person dies. For every abortion. That's not very safe.

Oftentimes the survivor suffers extreme depression, and occasionally they commit suicide.

And occasionally two people die as a direct result of the "procedure".

This statistics are pretty alarming.

Over 50% of patients directly involved in an abortion are dead within a week.

Sometimes it's an infection that kills the mother - pretty rare these days.

Sometimes it's a living human baby that survives the abortion, comes out into the life-giving air, only to be abandoned on a shelf, like a piece of junk or a disinteresting book, until their pitiful cries are weakened by thirst and they finally succumb to the cruel harsh reality of a compassionless industry.

Most of the time, it's just the intended, pre-meditated, calculated, and very painful --- dismembering or other cruel torture and killing of a very healthy and often very viable member of the human race.

If you killed your animal this way, without anaesthetic or other painkiller, the RSPCA would charge you - you be jailed or fined for "cruelty to animals".

But so long as its a human, its ok. At least, as long as the human has no voice and can't defend itself.

Or at least, as long as we can by some way or other get away with it... (and "legal protection" provides such a way)

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But look at their idiotic contradictions!

"Sexual and reproductive rights", for all!

Where are the sexual and reproductive rights of the girl they killed?

That baby, supposedly, has the same sexual and reproductive rights as anyone else. After all - that's the point of a "right" - it's universal - everyone gets it.

But mercilessly slaughtered, that "right" has been stolen from the girl.

Oh - and let me talk about "sexual rights". They insist that I have the right to choose when, where, with whom, and even if I will have sex, but only so long as I am engaging in sex with someone else who is equally willing.

In other words - they claim that the will of the individual is supreme, that a person's choice or desire or intention to have sex with another is of cosmic importance, and if the other is willing, no-one should stop them.

But if this sexual right is so fundamental, so powerful, so intrinsic to humanity and life itself, then why are we denying our babies the chance to utilise this right?

If we deny them the chance to grow and mature physically, we deny them the right to exercise their "sexual and reproductive rights".

So much for abortion promoting rights. It destroys them.

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And look at this :

At a youth caucus meeting, organizers refused to incorporate pro-abstinence suggestions from a group of over 20 pro-life youths. One pro-life student told the Friday Fax, “I don’t know which youth they represent, but they don’t speak for me or any of my friends that are here.”

So much for "representing us". Apparently your voice is only important if you agree with their predetermined agenda... nice.

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What to do?

* Pray specifically. That God changes hearts. That people have compassion for ALL humans - including the unborn. That the idiocy that is the pro-death movement will be shown to be compassionless, contradictory, and based on bad science and bad philosophy. That UN officials will choose life or be replaced promptly. That US judges and lawmakers and law enforcers will see the importance of valuing life at EVERY age. That the US population would be unblinded and outraged at the holocaust within.

* Continue to speak. They can ignore. But the more of us speak and the more often, the harder and harder it will be. They will try every threat and trick in the book to silence us, but if no-one else speaks for the innocents they slaughter (who cannot speak for themselves, except by writhing in pain during "procedures", and crying themselves to terminal sleep when they "survive the procedure") - if no-one else speaks for them, they will never be spoken for. Oh - and they will not be the last innocents to be mass-slaughtered...

Women's Rights & equal responsibility

Let's get a few things straight.

This week at the United Nations (UN), thousands of activists, government officials and UN officials gathered in New York for the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). While the theme for the conference is “The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS,” several countries and non-government organizations (NGOs) have used the annual meeting as a soapbox to promote radical ideas on homosexual rights, abortion and sex education. (emphasis mine)

Whoa a minute. Biblically speaking, the man is 100% responsible for every aspect of family life. Biblically speaking, the man is responsible for providing food, clothing, and everything else that he, his wife, and his children, need. He is also responsible for overseeing their education, including the selection of appropriate tutors and training courses. Even yes the cleaning is the man's responsibility, if you comprehend Scripture correctly.

The role of the wife? Be the husband's helper.

There is not an "equal sharing of responsibilities between men and women" - and nature teaches us that there cannot ever be - and Scripture teaches us that there is not to be.

Nature teaches us - it is IMPOSSIBLE for a man to carry the unborn child, or give it birth, or truly breast-feed it. But according to the UN CSW, aren't we supposed to share this responsibility equally - because all responsibility is to be shared equally? It's impossible! Ah - in other words, right from the word go, the theory fails. But they'll still cling to it with everything they have.

The Bible teaches us - all responsibilities in the home are the man's responsibility - the woman is but a helper. There is no Biblically-legislated "his tasks" vs "her tasks" - he is responsible for them all, and she helps him discharge his duty. But again, nature shows us that women tend to find it easier to focus on the nurturing-oriented roles.

If one man happens to have no children, and happens to run a cattle ranch with 3,000 head of cattle, he is responsible for every aspect of the home. His wife's help may come in the form of flying their little helicopter to check the fencelines every week. i.e. the natural disposition towards the more nurturing-oriented tasks is not a prohibition against a woman helping her husband in any manner she is capable of.

But the buck still does stop - even for meals and cleaning - with the husband.

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