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Mitch Daniels will sign bill to defund Planned Parenthood

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Gov Mitch Daniels

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Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels announced late Friday afternoon that he will sign a controversial bill to defund Planned Parenthood.

"I supported this bill from the outset, and the recent addition of language guarding against the spending of tax dollars to support abortions creates no reason to alter my position," he said in a statement.

Daniels' decision was closely watched since he is considering a presidential run. His earlier call for a "truce" on social issues had garnered the ire of social conservatives, and the bill was seen as a test of where he stood on such issues. Daniels has cast himself as focused primarily on fiscal issues.

Had Daniels vetoed the bill, which will make Indiana the first state to strip Medicaid funding for the network of reproductive health clinics, it would likely have hardened opposition to Daniels among social conservatives, who make up a significant portion of the GOP primary electorate in the key early voting states of Iowa and South Carolina. Signing the bill may help Daniels alleviate some of the reservations to his candidacy among that group if he decides to run. 

"Any organization affected by this provision can resume receiving taxpayer dollars immediately by ceasing or separating its operations that perform abortions," Daniels said in his statement.

On Thursday, Rick Santorum, a potential Daniels rival in the GOP presidential primary, called on the governor to sign the bill, saying of Planned Parenthood, "That's an organization that has a very sordid history and founding and one that I still think focuses in on activities that a lot of people have moral objections to." During the budget fight earlier this year that almost led to a government shutdown, Republicans tried and failed to eliminate federal funding for Planned Parentood, which is legally barred from using federal money to perform abortions.

The Indiana bill will eliminate $2 million in federal funding that Planned Parenthood receives, funneled through the state (the legislature has no control over an additional $1 million Planned Parenthood in Indiana receives from the federal government). About $1.3 million of that money comes from Medicaid funds allocated for family planning. It will also ban abortions after 20 weeks.

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Our a nation has debated for months about where do we put our money, and where do we take money from. Mitchell Daniels believes and has taken charge to cut funding from the planned parenthood organization. I'm thinking that maybe he didn't think clearly about every step or every loophole that is faced at the planned parenthood clinics and also what it means for the rest of the community and tax payers. If you cut funding from planned parenthood, then this means we will end spending and funding through medicaid more money for young teens or young adults who cannot provide for babies that they produced. Before we cut this funding, we need to fix the problem of teen pregnancy and young people having babies whom aren't capable of providing for their babies. So now they are going to have the babies and tax payers are going to pay for it through medicaid and all the other assistant programs. I personally don't believe in abortion, but sometimes I believe it's necessary. Let's teach our children to practice safe sex and educate their minds and then take this step. Right now, we don't have their attention. The old ways of living have changed. Some parents are not teaching and educating their children at home. As a nation, we need to step up to the plate and take back the American dream.

Financial Crisis

I have to question the intelligence of getting involved in Lybia with so much financial problem looming over our heads at home. We are 14 trillion dollars in debt and we have already spent half a billion dollars enforcing a no fly zone. What happens if Qadhafi stays in power? What will we do then? The intention was to protect innocent civilians from being used as human shields and be slaughtered for no reason. These acts did not just begin. Why have we not paid attention before?

We have a budget crisis that is requiring our congress to make ways to keep the government open for a few more months at a time. The American people should be asking these questions in front of every television camera they can find. We need to tell our lawmakers enough is enough. We need to get very angry and let them know that we will make sure that a replacement is found in the next election for every member that does not begin making headlines with the enormous changes they are offering. Congress needs to know that we are no longer a citizenry that will idly sit by and continue to watch this country being torn down by their greed.

Now has come the time to put reality back in the minds of our elected officials. We must let them know that we will exercise our constitutional rights to install a new leadership that will work by, for and of the people. If you do not understand this then educate yourself. I promise the more you learn about the present level of governmental waste the angrier you will become. Just like a person, a government that remains in debt will become a government without power. It will find itself having to rely on others, and worse, having to settle for what it can get. We have always been the country to run to the aide of others. We have liberated many countries with the blood of our brave young men and we have never asked for more in return than enough land to bury our dead. I assure you we will not find the same support from anyone. We have to save the most wonderful country there has ever been before it is too late.

Call or write your representatives from the bottom up. Ask them what they are sacrificing for the budget. Ask them what they have done and plan to do to rescue this nation. Do your part to open their eyes. Let them know we are watching and listening. Let them no the free ride is over. It’s time for them to work for us as we have worked for them.

Has justice been served?

"Westside Rapist" gets life for Calif. killings

John Floyd Thomas pleads guilty to seven counts of first-degree murder and gets sentence of seven life terms

"(AP) 
LOS ANGELES - A former state insurance adjuster dubbed the "Westside Rapist" by police was sentenced to life in prison Friday for murdering seven women in sexual attacks that terrified Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s.

John Floyd Thomas, 74, pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to seven life terms, including one without the possibility of parole in the attacks, Los Angeles County district attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said.

Some of the murders included special allegations that the crimes were committed during the commission of burglary or rape.
Leads pile up vs. suspected serial killer
A call to Thomas' court-appointed public defender, Alan Gelfand, was not immediately returned.

Based on cold-case DNA testing, Thomas was arrested in March 2009 and charged in the "Westside Rapist" case in which a man entered the homes of middle-aged and elderly women who lived alone, raped them and choked them until they passed out or died.

Although he was charged with seven murders, investigators have said they believe he may have killed as many as 30 women and raped many more.

The attacks stopped in 1978 — the year Thomas went to prison for the rape of a Pasadena woman — but authorities say they resumed a decade later in the eastern county."

It appears that justice has not been served for John Floyd Thomas. He has been charged with killing seven woman and also sexually assaulted their innocence. They  have suspected or stated that he may have killed and raped more than thirty women. All  he gets is seven life sentences? This man does not deserve to survive off of our tax dollars. Yes, he is human and has made severely life altering mistakes, but he needs to die slowly. We all sin and have fallen short, but thirty possible victims? That is way too many lives that have been jeopardized and taken my his hand. How many more does it take for us to realize that maybe he wants to die because he doesn't have any regards or value for life and the living being in others? I would love to know answers to the questions that I know maybe have related to the mass murderer.


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