Is this what the Koran permits Egyptian men to do with their wife or wives?
How can an Egyptian Muslim marriage — or any marriage — be terminated in divorce based on this flimsy evidence?
Facts: An Egyptian man supposedly saw a telephone number written down and given to his wife. So the man immediately shouts out divorce over a loud speaker. His wife at the time is at the mall with their several kids. This is what came over the internet:
“A Saudi husband in Cairo, Egypt used a loudspeaker to divorce his wife at a busy shopping mall. The husband saw [supposedly] his wife take a note from a man.
“When he left that shop, he saw a man giving his wife a note bearing his phone number. She [supposedly] accepted the paper and put it inside her bag,†The newspaper did not mention where the mall is located.
“The husband then used the mall’s loudspeaker to shout divorce words against his wife. His wife at the time was with her three children.â€
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bacon force pork?
Conservatives can do things that support getting rid of ObamaCare, Obama’s regulations and Obama’s policies. One way: Read the opposition’s arguments and comment back via blogs and email. This is a comment back on ‘Broccoli and bad faith’ written by Paul Krugman, with New York Times.
Replace broccoli with pork and see what happens to Krugman’s weak argument.
Dear Mr. Krugman: Do you know that …..
1) Americans overwhelmingly dislike 2 to 1 ObamaCare. It was not popular before and overall it is still unpopular.
2) If the Supreme Court throws ObamaCare out entirely, then Congress gets a fresh slate to make health care reform with bipartisan support. Not one Republican voted for ObamaCare. Any change of such massive proportions requires bipartisan support and public input through hearings. Thus, a fresh start is the best way to go.
3) Americans want health care reform that respects individual freedom of religion per the Bill of Rights. Obama recently Jan 20, 2012 told the Catholic bishops there was no waiver for any church organizations. Under Obama-Care, all organizations must provide for free a wide variety of contraceptive choices including abortion, sterilization and birth control pills. Many organizations are affronted at this lack of respect for individual conscience and by the one size fits all approach taken by Obama and his Health Secretary Sebelius.
4) People want & should be able to get individually tailored plans. A gay man does not need or want pregnancy care whereas a gay woman who plans to give birth may. Health care reform must include tort reform to reduce malpractice costs and allow and encourage competition across state lines.
5) If you Mr. Krrugman don’t like Justice Scalia’s comparison of health care with broccoli then how about comparing health care with the purchase of pork? Say there is just one store and it’s located in the middle of a Jewish neighborhood. And Jews don’t eat pork or bacon or products with pork. How long will the store owner offer pork for sale? As the demand is zero he will stop offering it for sale. So when Jews choose not to buy pork in fact their actions make pork unavailable to the few who do want to buy pork.
6) But what if the government requires all stores to offer pork for sale and requires all shoppers to purchase pork no matter what the individual’s religious or culinary habits? When the government can require all to purchase X then the government can require all to also purchase Y and Z.
6) The essence of a legal contract [based on Western laws] is that both parties enter into it voluntarily. But if one side is forced then there is no lawful contract.
7) You Mr. Krugman have got it flat wrong when you say, “people don’t buy health insurance until they get sick…” Wrong. Most people get health insurance as part of their benefits from their employer. Some individuals that work by the hour and have several children will get health care for their children via Healthy Families and other government paid for programs. And, if in CA, via Medical.
Insurance is based on risk. What is the risk of a 20 year old dying from a heart attack compared to a 70 year old? The risk is far less for the younger person and hence the insurance cost is less.
Yes Mr. Krugman, Americans want health care reform. But they do not want ObamaCare. Americans do not want to be told that they must purchase health care insurance or pork or anything for that matter.
In January, 2008, instead of focusing on the weak economy, creating actual ‘shovel ready’ jobs, the huge homes ‘under water’ Obama and Pelosi and the Democrats focused on creating a one size fits all government health care program for all. The priorities of the working American are — and remain — far different from Obama’s priorities.
And what are Obama’s priorities? Giving Russia what it wants concerning missile defense? Protecting ‘green’ energy and choosing supposed winners and losers? Stopping the Canadian- Gulf oil pipeline? Adding 1 TRILLION to the national debt to be paid by our children and grand-children? Stopping all oil drilling in the Gulf even though his commission said re-open bids?
Americans are far smarter than Obama and apologist Paul Krugman think. And yes, health insurance can be compared to the purchase of broccoli or any product. If the government can force you as an individual to buy health insufance, it can force you to buy all sorts of of things.
Way back in 1775, the individual states agreed to create and give limited powers to the federal government. All powers not given remained with the individual states. All powers over the individual citizen [pay a property tax, get a drivers license, pay sales tax] come from the power of the state where you live.
Up until now — except for conscription into the army and serving on a federal jury — the federal government has only limited, specific powers. It has no police powers over any individual. If the individual mandate of ObamaCare is found by the Supreme Court to be constitutional and legal, then the basic relationship between you and your government changes drastically.
So the answer is yes, if the individual mandate is legal then Obama can force Jewish grocery stores to sell bacon and pork and Obama can force all shoppers to purchase bacon and pork.
threat of Christianity
Inclusion of words “The threat of Christianity” is a boo-boo says Malaysian officials.
Malaysian state religious and education officials have changed the title of a seminar which included the words “the threat of Christianity” following outrage by non-Muslims in the Muslim dominant country [28.3 million Muslims to 9.2 million Christians].
How dare you call Christianity a threat says non-Muslims. The religious Police raided a Methodist church event last August fearing Muslims were being converted to Christianity.
Co-organisers from the state religious department say the seminar’s content [directed towards school teachers] will remain the same but part of the title “threat of Christianity” will be removed.
“The seminar is part of the right of Muslims to defend the faith of its practitioners from any action which may lead to apostasy. It is our responsibility,” an official said.
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More than 80% of the truth seekers in Egypt favor death for apostasy. JAJ48@ao.com
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Your church provide homemade food to less fortunate and hungry? Homemade food not OK says federal and some city governments. What’s happening in New York: No more home cooked food for the homeless of New York.
The Bloomberg administration is now taking the term “food police†to new depths. Bloomberg now blocks food donations to all government-run facilities that serve the city’s homeless.
In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can’t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans.
For over a decade, Glenn Richter and his wife, Lenore, have led a team of food-delivery volunteers from Ohab Zedek, the Upper West Side Orthodox congregation. Shelters must turn away synagogue goodies like gefilte fish and pastries, thanks to Bloomberg.
They’ve brought freshly cooked, nutrient-rich surplus foods from synagogue events to homeless facilities in the neighborhood. (Disclosure: I know the food is so tasty because I’ve eaten it — I’m an OZ member.) The practice of donating such surplus food to homeless shelters is common among houses of worship in the city.
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So here we go. only the Govt can provide. jaj48@aol.com
Jesse Jackson PUSHes back violence here, there and everywhere? He spoke Friday morning from the Chicago offices of his Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Jesse was in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday as part of a delegation of religious leaders trying to find a way to end the violence in Syria. Results of the Geneva meeting to reduce violence? Geneva stairway to heaven
Jesse Jackson is now about to get on a plane for a flight south to Florida. He will add his voice to the growing protests in and around Sanford, Fla., concerning the death one month ago of 17 year old Afro-American Martin.
Martin was on his way to the store when shot and died at scene. Zimmerman, a Peruvian-Caucasian Neighborhood Watch person involved, was not arrested. A witness reports that he heard ‘Help! Help!” and saw red shirted Zimmerman on bottom being beaten. Zimmerman says he was returning to his truck when he was attacked. The police report notes Zimmerman’s face was bloody and grass stains were on the back of his shirt.
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After Jesse Jackson’s resounding success in Geneva, Switzerland in sorting Syria, he returns. Just why is this delegation in Europe instead of Syria or Chicago?
COPA franchise feesReligious ‘franchise’ fees? Yes.
You want to start a McDonald? You pay a franchise fee.
You want to spread the ‘food’ of Saul Alinsky, progressive who wrote Rules for Radicals?
You will pay a ‘franchise’ fee to spread the progressive ‘gospel’ of Saul Alinsky via COPA and other similar organizations with different names and same philosophy. The money paid to COPA goes out of state to Chicago, Illinois. Home of community organizer Obama. Mmmm.
Why cough up big bucks to founders of COPA, an out of state organization, for franchise costs? This does not make sense.
Why pay Illinois for how to do community organizing in a California community? Do we really need more of Obama type organizers here in Santa Cruz and Monterey? What say you.
Time for church & other religious organization members to ask why….
Ask why. Time for local church and other religious organizations to ask why their local Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay area religious organization pay up to $10,000 a year in COPA ‘franchise’ costs to out of state Illinois & no buy-in by church members?
If you want the ‘real answers’ why the franchise costs paid to an out of CA community organization ( in Chicago, Illinois) then ask the original founders of COPA.
Wonder who? There were three persons who started COPA: the driving force was a Catholic sister/nun who runs a Watsonville, CA women/ children care facility, an Aptos, CA Lutheran minister who has since died.. and …
1) What COPA did many years ago was to get ‘buy in’ from the local leaders of local churches & other religious organizations.
2) Then COPA said to the general Santa Cruz/ Monterey CA community that all the members of these organization supported COPA views.
3) Now COPA uses those churches to hand out material and tell members how to vote.
COPA is smart. People who go to a local church or other religious organization may not want to ‘argue’ about COPA with those who provide spiritual assistance. More info follows below.
DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
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Political Community Organizing through Places of Worship
By Freedom Advocates
Monday, 02 November 2009
Question: “I have just learned that my Monterey Bay Area church has given large sums of money to a political Interfaith Network organization called COPA. COPA stands for Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action. What is COPA?
Answer: COPA is a member of Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) which was founded by Saul Alinsky in the 1940’s. Alinsky authored two books that are used as manuals by socialist and communist change agents – Reveille for Radicals in 1946 and Rules for Radicals in 1971.
It is a serious concern that the money I’ve been giving to my church is being used for political and radical ideological purposes without my knowledge or authorization. There are many Interfaith Networks operating under different names throughout the country and most of them like COPA, are members of IAF.
Answer: In their own words, Industrial Areas Foundation helps build broad-based, non-partisan organizations of dues-paying member congregations, schools, unions, business associations, and non-profits committed to building power for sustainable social and economic change.
Alinsky in his book writings puts it like this,
You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments. Make the enemy live up to his/her own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.
Believing that the ends justify the means, Alinksy stated that,
In action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind.
So churches are being used for political purposes rather than for spiritual reasons. COPA affiliated churches use congregational capital to influence local politicians and intensely advocate for so-called “affordable housing†developments built by well paid so-called, “non-profit†developers.
The reality is that our money is funding an undisclosed massive subsidy for building projects benefiting individuals who are very ineffective at cost containment. This should give pause to anyone thinking that COPA and IAF are organizations out to help the downtrodden. Those downtrodden are the means, the pawns, in COPA’s game plan.
Where was I when these political shenanigans were being discussed? Was it part of a sermon or simply handled as a financial transaction behind closed doors? It’s alarming that I and my fellow congregants missed the discussion about morphing my church into an instrument of socialist/fascist economic change. This is antithetical to what I believe in.
Your church may be doing this too. Go to the IAF Industrial Areas Foundation “affiliates†page. Click on your region on the left side of the page. In our area, COPA was formerly known as CCIS – Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors.
Congregations across the country find themselves attached to COPA-like organizations with names like Washington Interfaith Network (WIN), Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment (CHANGE), Tying Nashville Together (TNT) or Southeastern Wisconsin Common Ground.
Most of us never saw this happening. We trust our places of worship and attend in order to honor God and invigorate our spiritual beliefs. Now we discover that an outside political action group is working insidiously to infiltrate our church and undermine our ethical and spiritual structure.
COPA/IAF is clear that their mission is to train parishioners in community organizing tactics in order to achieve a political result through lobbying. Sound familiar? ACORN has been in the news recently for exploiting poor neighborhoods through the use of misleading promises used in community organizing and lobbying. ACORN targets neighborhoods. COPA and IAF target places of worship and unsuspecting parishioners.
COPA/IAF are coming into our churches and synagogues, misleading many of our ministers and other leaders by having them support COPAand IAF politics.
Is your church or temple involved with an interfaith congregation network and IAF? If so, you need to ask:
Is my church a member of a network or organization that supports IAF? What is the organization called?
If yes, why did our church leadership decide to join?
What was the commitment made to the organization?
Has the pastor, minister, rabbi or other spiritual leader been informed about the true nature of Interfaith Networks and Congregation Based Community Organizations?
Has the congregation been informed?
Call to action – Let your church know how you feel about affiliations with political and ideological groups such as IAF and COPA.
Political Community Organizing through Places of Worship by Freedom Advocates
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President Obama accepts $1 million from Bill Maher [who calls himself a “a potty-mouth guy…” and who says his talent is “to get people to spill their fuc–ing guts outâ€]. That’s not exactly respectful language Maher uses to describe his audience.
Obama broadcasts his anti-conscience mandate that all employers including faith organizations will provide at no cost birth control pills, Obama telphones reproductive rights activist, Sandra Fluke. Obama publicly speaks out against Rush Limbaugh commenting, “No decent person would say…â€
Obama says he leads by example. What example?
Think Machiavellian. Obama leads by the example of The Prince. “In the actions of men, and especially of Princes — from which there is no appeal — the end justifies the means.â€
The Democrat controlled Senate recently voted down a law that would dismantle the heart of Obama-Care — the panel of experts that make all the decisions.
The way Obama-Care is set up, there will be no appeal from Obama-Care’s panel of 15 experts who decide your health care. No one except the panel of experts is trusted – not the patients who receive medical care, not the MDs and hospitals that provide care, not the taxpayers who pay for it nor the politicians who set up Obama-Care. No one is trusted except those who report to The Prince. How Machiavellian of Obama. How Prince-like Obama acts.
So, what can we do to remove Obama and repeal Obama-Care?
It will be citizens who collectively oust Obama & his policies and turn back the clock to the principles of those who wrote the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
Obama’s actions are in step with the Rules for Liberals by Saul Alinsky [dedicated to Lucifer aka Satan].
So now’s the time for conservatives to write a different book. Let’s call it, Rules for 2012 Conservatives.
And you can help write Rules for US Conservatives. How? Connect. Work together with other conservatives. Network. Send emails. Find and join blogs that are conservative in outlook. Speak up and speak out. Connect and keep on connecting. Never joined Twitter? Learn to twit your tune. Not on Facebook? Get on it and set up a Tea Party type blog. Put your blog address as part of your signature that you send out on all emails. Use electronic publishing to publicize your views. SmashWords.com is an excellent and easy way to self publish e-books and articles.
And send your stuff to me, DrCameronJackson@gmail.com Collectively we will wirte Rules for US Conservatives.
Who are WE and who are THEY? Know that four out of ten Americans identify as ‘conservative’? Thus, in how Americans identify Conservatives are close to a majority.
And those who do not identify as Conservative [ who call themselves progressives/ liberals] are simply NON-Conservatives. They, unfortunately, lack conservative values and actions. In the Greece of Plato times either you were a member of the polis or you were a non-citizen and an outcast.
Yes! Conservatives recognize NON-Conservatives as members of the polis but the Rules will change from Rules for Radicals to Rules for 2012 Conservatives.
The NON-Conservatives are very different creatures form the liberals and Democrats of President Kennedy’s era. It was President Kennedy in the 1960s who said, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.’
Today we have Democrat Party NON-Conservative Nancy Pelosi who tells congress they must vote for Obama-Care to find out what is in it. And we have Democrat Party NON-Conservative Harry Reid who, with the Democrats in the Senate, has not passed a budget in three years. And these NON-Conservatives refuse to OK the Canada to the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Well, these NON-Conservatives may hear loud and clear come November how the US Conservatives feel about the pipeline.
Rule 1 for US Conservatives: Know what makes NON-Conservatives like Pelosi, Reid, Maher and Obama ‘tick’. How? Read Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. And also read The Prince. The Prince is all about the manipulation of appearances. The Prince appears compassionate but is not in reality.
Obama and his administration practice Alinsky Rules for Radicals.
Obama replaced the Bush terrorist policy of ‘capture & interrogate’ with Obama’s policy of ‘target and eliminate’. Obama, both personally and through his policies, has targeted numerous individuals and entities over the last three years.
Obama targets
Courts: With the U.S. Supreme Court present for the State of the Union address Obama upbraided the court for their ruling in Citizens United.
House of Representatives: Obama placed Paul Ryan front and center to castigate him for the Republican budget which focused on viable ways to re-structure entitlement programs.
Retired persons: Obama via the Federal Reserve targets and punishes savers and rewards spenders. When the wife of Romney said that their millions could be gone the next day there’s truth to what she says. A million dollars put into Treasury Bills for a year earns only $300 compared to $ 46,700 if the rate of return was close to what it historically has been.
Medicare recipients: Obama took $500 BILLION from Medicare and moved that money elsewhere. So, an entitlement program going broke goes broke even faster for the elderly. And those elderly will be the first to have their medical care rationed by the Board of Fifteen Experts appointed by Machiavellian Prince Obama.
So, speak up. Speak out. Contact other US Conservatives. Send email. Start blogs. Twitter away. Get a Facebook page and say what you stand for – and what you won’t stand for. Use SmashWords.com to write e-books and e-articles. Together let’s replace Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals with modern Rules for US Conservatives.
Rule #1 is: Know what makes NON-Conservatives like Obama, Bill Maher, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid ‘tick’. So read The Prince and Rules for Radicals.
Rule #2: Connect with like minded conservatives. Express your views via email, e-articles and e-books. It has never been easier to self publish. Try SmashWords.com for self publishing.
Knowledge is power. The Prince is an apt description as to how Obama acts. For The Prince, political expediency is placed above morality. Craft and deceit are tools to maintain authority and carry out the will of The Prince.
Remember those 50+ times Obama reiterated “You can keep your doctor. And, you can keep your health plan…” Recently Health and Human Services Secretary Elizabeth Sebelius was asked about these promises Obama made to the American people about Obama-Care. The Secretary for HHS has no memory or knowledge that Obama made these promises. Is that collective amnesia? It’s acting with political expediency. Sebelius says she is ‘balancing’ the right to contraception with the right to religious freedom. Has Sebelius ever sat down and read the Bill of Rights?
Rule #3: Don’t follow the Rules for Radicals. Do follow the moral precepts that guided the founders of America.
From the Netherlands: A controversial system of mobile euthanasia units that will travel around the country to respond to the wishes of sick people who wish to end their lives has been launched in the Netherlands.
The scheme, which started on Thursday , will send teams of specially trained doctors and nurses to the homes of people whose own doctors have refused to carry out patients’ requests to end their lives.
The launch of the so-called Levenseinde, or “Life End”, house-call units – whose services are being offered to Dutch citizens free of charge – coincides with the opening of a clinic of the same name in The Hague, which will take patients with incurable illnesses as well as others who do not want to die at home.
The scheme is an initiative by the Dutch Association for a Voluntary End to Life (NVVE), a 130,000-member euthanasia organisation that is the biggest of its kind in the world.
“From Thursday, the Life End clinic will have mobile teams where people who believe they are eligible for euthanasia can register,” Walburg de Jong, a NVVE spokesman, said.
“If they do comply, the teams will be able to carry out the euthanasia at patients’ homes should their regular doctors be unable or refuse to help them.
Was it a fluke? A surprising bit of luck that Sandra Fluke was chosen by Democrat Congressman Cummings? Why not email Congressman Cummings and ask him. There is no phone listed for Congressman Cummings. He is on Facebook. Call Congressman
More likely it was Democrat strategy which caused Democrat Congressman Cummings to choose Georgetown University 3rd year law student Sandra Fluke to testify at Darrell Essa’s congressional hearing on religious freedom and Obama’s mandate that churches pay for birth control.
Georgetown University has Catholic roots and does not pay for birth control for students. Sandra Fluke knew Georgetown University’s policies and choose to enroll anyway.
Per review of Georgetown University Law Center curriculum, third year law student Sandra Fluke probably took the usual array of law classes typically offerred by most law schools.
Georgetown University Law Center’s curriculum is listed below.
Georgetown University Law Center’s curriculum looks quite similar to the curriculum offered at Monterey College of Law, Seaside, California. Georgetown Law Center just costs three times as much as Monterey College of Law.
Of note, Georgetown University Law Center offers no law courses in reproductive rights, male and female sexuality or privacy law. Georgetown offers nothing that provides legal training directly related to being a ‘reproductive rights advocate’ which is how Ms. Fluke describes herself.
Just possibly Ms. Fluke may have taken a class titled Advanced Constitutional Law available to third year students. [Constitutional Law does discuss the Supreme Court cases related to the reproductive privacy rights of woman.]
Why not call Congressman Cummings, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ask him why Sandra Fluke? It’s easy to contact him via a contact box http://cummingsform.house.gov Congressman Cummings is also on Facebook. And his wife is Dr Maya Rockeymore-Cummings.
written by DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
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“Selecting courses as a second and third year student can be a daunting task. Georgetown is blessed with an enormous range of course offerings. Yet, the breadth of choices can make the selection process seem overwhelming. Many years ago the Law Center had a prescribed upperclass curriculum. The faculty stopped dictating which courses upperclass students should take, however, when they themselves no longer agreed about what should be required, given the increasing diversity of law practice and divergent views about the benefits of various courses of study. This movement away from required upperclass curriculum has occurred at most law schools in the country. Currently at Georgetown, the only required upperclass courses are Professional Responsibility and a course that meets the upper level writing requirement.”
“Nonetheless, most faculty and lawyers would probably concur that it is advisable for students to take Tax I, Constitutional Law II, and Corporations. Taxation and the corporate form are ubiquitous in our society and therefore lawyers should have at least some familiarity with these areas. In addition, these courses are prerequisites to a number of more advanced offerings in the areas of business and corporate law. Constitutional Law is not only relevant to other courses, it addresses fundamental issues about the nature of our government that well educated lawyers should understand. In addition to these courses, most students take Evidence: it is a prerequisite for many clinical courses and in the view of many is basic to understanding the American judicial processes. Finally, given increased globalization, lawyers frequently need to be able to operate effectively beyond our national borders — communicating with people of other legal traditions and understanding the potential complications when other legal traditions are implicated. As a result, we recommend that you take one or more courses in international or comparative law.”
“Beyond these courses, you should select a balanced and well-rounded array of courses that add to your theoretical understanding, your doctrinal breadth, and provide you with exposure to the range of skills that a good lawyer needs. You should choose a mixture of public law courses, such as Administrative Law, Criminal Law, Environmental Law, International Law I, or Federal Courts, and private law courses such as Commercial Law, Corporate Finance, Intellectual Property, International Law II, or Family Law. Most faculty members would also encourage you to take at least one course a year (or semester) that particularly piques your interest even if it is not clear how it will fit into your career plans.”
“Lawyers are called upon to use not only their analytical skills and substantive knowledge, but also their ability to structure creative solutions, to work collaboratively with others, to negotiate effectively, to be persuasive orally and in writing, and to communicate effectively with both lawyers and non-lawyers. Therefore, you should consider taking courses that use a variety of pedagogical formats and enhance your skills in a variety of areas. We recommend that you consider doing a clinic. Clinics offer not only the opportunity to “learn by doing,” but also the unique opportunity to engage in critical self-reflection about the lawyering process. In addition to our clinics, Georgetown offers an extensive array of practice and problem based courses such as Business Planning Seminar, Negotiation, Civil Discovery, and Trial Practice.”
“Some students discover their area of professional interest while in law school. For these students, we have provided lists of courses in particular subject areas. The Dean’s Office and faculty members will be glad to provide advice on the selection and sequencing of courses in particular subject areas. But, if like many other students you are unsure of what your professional interest in law are, remember that a life in law is a life time of learning from other lawyers, from your clients and CLE courses and we hope through Georgetown. Finally, many students find very rewarding an experience of deep and intensive engagement in the 3rd year either through a capstone seminar such as Professor Tushnet’s Advanced Constitutional Law Seminar or a major clinic. You may want to plan your schedule accordingly.”
“You will find additional information on this Web site and in the bulletin. We also encourage you to seek advice about your specific academic programs from individual professors or the deans during the course registration process. In addition, various group events such as the Curriculum Fair and Faculty Panels on Course Selection are helpful sources of information.”
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Why not call Congressman Cummings, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, and ask him why Sandra Fluke?reproductive rights
It’s easy to contact him via a contact box http://cummingsform.house.gov
Congressman Cummings is also on Facebook.
Congressman Cummings’ wife is Dr Maya Rockeymore-Cummings. Dr. Maya Rockeymore-Cummings is an advocate and analyst in the area of health. She is currently working on social change strategy via Global Policy Solutions.
Perhaps Congressman Cummings’s wife Dr. Maya Rockeymore-Cummings knows whether Sandra Fluke is a fluke?
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First free government paid birth control pills.
Later, govt paid free treatment for ovarian cysts?
Sandra Fluke’s story: Law student Fluke has a student friend with an ovarian cyst who lost an ovary due to Georgetown University’s no birth control coverage. But what about coverage under parents’ medical policy until age 25?
And after free government paid birth control pills, what about free cervical caps, free IUD’s, free diaphragms, free treatment for sexually transmitted disease, free abortions and free after abortion care …
These women related birth control costs can sky rocket. And what about the cost of contraceptives for men? “It’s only fair…” will say Obama …
A woman, Sandra Fluke, knowingly chooses to go to a Catholic law school, Georgetown University. Ms. Fluke spends the next 3 years as a law student fighting Georgetown’s policies. Ms. Fluke researched Georgetown’s policies on contraceptives and knowingly choose to enroll.
Georgetown University does not pay for birth control contraceptives.
Recently, President Obama mandates free birth control pills for all women. Obama’s mandate requires Catholic churches, charities and religious institutions — and perhaps Georgetown University — to provide all forms of contraception at no cost to women. [Clearly all health premiums will increase as there is ‘no free lunch’.]
Congress held hearings as to whether President Obama violated the Constitutional right of religious freedom. Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke tried to testify before Darrell Issa’s congressional hearing.
California Republican Darrell Issa is the Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Ms. Fluke was denied the right to participate on the panel or to testify as an expert witness by Congressman Issa as she described herself a reproductive rights activist [what law classes has she taken in reproductive rights? What field studies? what basis for expertise?]. Fluke has no expertise regarding religion and she is not a priest, preacher or other religious leader.
Democrat Nancy Pelosi held a hearing Feb. 23, 2012. Pelosi called Sandra Fluke to testify. Ms. Fluke testified before Pelosi that government should pay her the $1,000 a year that Fluke and other Georgetown female law students have to pay for birth control pills.
Ms. Fluke testified that woman at Georgetown University Law School cannot afford the $1,000 a year which contraceptives cost. [Georgetown’s tuition is $40,000 and room and board costs $20,000. Checking around, birth control pills can be purchased for as little as $5 and about $50 a month through Planned Parenthood.]
Is all of this orchestrated by Obama’s reelection committee? Done so that more women are likely to vote for Obama in 2012?
Clearly, Obama and Pelosi and the Democratic Party are not concerned about reducing disease and sexually transmitted diseases.
It is well known that condoms and foam are the best methods to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. And it is also well known that birth control pills are related to blood clots in woman. So, to protect women’s health other methods such as cervical caps or diaphragms can be used by women and do not pose health risks.
What about men? The cost of birth control methods by men [vasectomies, condoms] is not mentioned by Obama, the Democrats or Nancy Pelosi. So, it appears that this is all about dangling a carrot before women.
Dangling the carrot of free birth control pills for women is all about the continuing saga that Obama, Pelosi and the Democrat Party want more control of people’s lives. Democrats like Pelosi and Obama want control over sexuality, reproduction and who has babies.
Elijah Cummings of the Congressional Black Caucus, criticizes Congressman Issa for not allowing Ms. Fluke to be on the panel — nor allow her to testify But law student Fluke has no known expertise in areas relevant to religious freedom. Law student Sandra Fluke had a story to share: a fellow student at Georgetown suffered an ovarian cyst which was not covered.
Republican Darrell Issa is Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Democrat Elijah Cummings from Maryland’s 7th district, is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
It’s time that Congressman Darrell Issa asks that Elijah Cummings answer the following questions:
1. Does the Congressional Black Caucus, of which you Cummings are a member, support the U.S. Constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion?
2. Do you Congressman Cummings support legislation passed by former President Clinton and currently the law which protects religious freedom?
3. Answer yes or no Congressman Cummings, Congress has the authority and can and should question the constitutionality of President Obama’s recent mandate to require religious institutions –such as Georgetown University — to provide free contraceptives?
So, why not cut and paste the above three questions and send them along to Democrat Congressmen Cummings with a cc to California Republican Congressman Darrell Issa? It’s easy to do.
