Senator John McCain expresses his "confidence that President Obama will turn this country around" while speaking for Mit Romney.
Oh, well.
Rick Santorum’s Wife had a Second-term Abortion – But That’s Supposed to be Different
We must tread lightly regarding family members of candidates. Still, when anyone takes radical positions, preaches endlessly and with great sanctimony, well, that candidate merits closer attention – especially if that candidate wants to be President of the United States.
Frankly, I am in shock as I write this.
Rick Santorum’s wife had a second-term abortion to save her life, so reports oursilverribbon.org:
Rick Santorum is one dangerously confused denialist. The former Pennsylvania Senator and presidential aspirant is best known for his inability to associate his professed compassion for life at the level of the zygote, with the physical realities of human sexuality. He has equated loving same-sex relationships to bestiality. He is opposed to abortion under any circumstance. Almost.
In October, 1996, his wife Karen had a second trimester abortion. They don’t like to describe it that way. In his 2004 interview with Terry Gross, Santorum characterizes the fetus, who must be treated as an autonomous person, as a practically a gunslinging threat, whom the mother must murder in self-defense. Karen has had to justify her decision to save her own life by explaining that if she died her other children would have lost a mother.
The compassionate side of me says this is an incredibly private family issue. However, the Santorums have already discussed this publicly.
Read for yourself and decide: http://oursilverribbon.org
Time to Defend Kim Jong-un To The Death, Okay?
Well, okay, then.
North Korea has called on the country to defend the new leader, Kim Jong-un, to the death, in a New Year message.
The army, ruling party and people should be prepared to act as “human shields” for the son and successor of Kim Jong-il, the message released by state media said.
It added that the nation must launch an “all-out drive” to achieve prosperity.
Yup.
And then this:
On Friday, he was appointed supreme commander of the country’s 1.2 million-strong armed forces, according to state media.
“Glorify this year 2012 as a year of proud victory, a year when an era of prosperity is unfolding,” the message released by the official Korean Central News Agency said.
Yup. Then there’s that.
Strange beyond strange.
Sweden: Wedding ring ‘found on carrot’ after 16 years
From the BBCA Swedish woman has discovered her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden, 16 years after she lost it, says a newspaper.
Lena Paahlsson had long ago lost hope of finding the ring, which she designed herself, reports Dagens Nyheter.
The white-gold band, set with seven small diamonds, went missing in her kitchen in 1995, she told the paper.
Although the ring no longer fits, she hopes to have it enlarged so she can wear it again.