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Sacramento couple fights to get their baby boy back from
authorities
SACRAMENTO, CA - A
Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from
his parents following a visit to the doctor. The young couple thought their
problems were behind them after their son had a scare at the hospital, but once
they got home their problems got even worse. It all began nearly two weeks ago,
when Anna Nikolayev and her husband Alex took their 5-month-old boy Sammy to
Sutter Memorial Hospital to be treated for flu
symptoms, but they didn't like the care Sammy was getting. For example, one day Anna asked why a nurse
was giving her son antibiotics. "I asked her, for what is that? And she's
like, 'I don't know.' I'm like, 'you're working as a nurse, and you don't even
know what to give to my baby for what,'" Anna explained. According to
Anna, a doctor later said Sammy shouldn't have been on the antibiotics. Anna
said Sammy suffers from a heart murmur and had been seeing a doctor at Sutter
for regular treatment since he was born. After Sammy was treated for flu
symptoms last week, doctors at Sutter admitted him to the pediatric ICU to
monitor his condition. After a few days, Anna said doctors began talking about
heart surgery.
"If we got the one mistake after another, I don't want to have my
baby have surgery in the hospital where I don't feel safe," Anna said. Anna
argued with doctors about getting a second opinion. Without a proper discharge,
she finally took Sammy out of the hospital to get a second opinion at Kaiser
Permanente. "The police showed up there. They saw that the baby was
fine," Anna said. "They told us that Sutter was telling them so much
bad stuff that they thought that this baby is dying on our arms."
Medical records from
the doctor treating Sammy at Kaiser Permanente said the baby as clinically safe
to go home with his parents. The doctor added, "I do not have concern for
the safety of the child at home with his parents." "So police saw the
report from the doctors, said, 'okay guys, you have a good day,' and they
walked away," Anna said. Anna said the next day police and child
protective services showed up on her doorstep. Alex Nikolayev said he met them
outside a short time after they arrived. "I was pushed against the building,
smacked down. I said, 'am I being placed under arrest?' He smacked me down onto
the ground, yelled out, 'I think I got the keys to the house,'" Alex said.
Then police let themselves inside. On
home video shot with a camera Anna set up herself, police can be seen entering
her front door on Wednesday. "I'm
going to grab your baby, and don't resist, and don't fight me ok?" a
Sacramento police officer said in the video. "He's like, 'okay let
your son go,' so I had to let him go, and he grabbed my arm, so I couldn't take
Sammy. And they took Sammy, and they just walked away," Anna said. When
News10 spoke with police, they said talk to CPS; CPS did not say much about the
case. Just before 6 p.m. Thursday, Anna said that a CPS social worker told her,
the reason they took Sammy is because of severe neglect; however, the social
worker didn't elaborate on that neglect. Sutter Memorial was asked
to comment on the story, but the hospital said the case was with CPS and
law enforcement and they would have to comment on the case. CPS said they can't
specifically comment on this case because of privacy law, but CPS spokesperson
Laura McCasland said, "We conduct a risk assessment of the child's safety
and rely heavily on the direction of health care providers." "It
seems like parents have no right whatsoever," Alex said. On Thursday, Anna
and Alex were allowed a one hour visitation with Sammy; he's currently in
protective custody at Sutter Memorial Hospital. "His smile, it's
everything for me," Anna said. "I was so happy to see him." Anna
and Alex have a court hearing scheduled for Monday. "We did everything," Anna said. "We went from one
hospital to another. We just wanted to be safe, that he is in good hands." Do you get the
dichotomy? Government will override this mother's parental rights while
upholding killing babies in the whom? Tyrannical
misguided government?
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25% Think Most College Professors Share Values of U.S.
Society
Full-time
college professors are generally regarded as politically liberal by most
Americans, and only one-in-four think most professors favor the values of
American society.
A new Rasmussen
Reports national telephone survey shows that just 25% of U.S. Adults believe
most full-time college professors share the values of American society. Forty percent (40%) think most full-time
professors oppose American values. A sizable number (34%) are not sure.
Are you
alarmed yet???
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ESPN's Chris Broussard Calls Homosexuality a Sin During
Jason Collins Segment (Video)
In a special
one-hour episode covering the immediate impact of Washington Wizards center Jason
Collins' coming out as a gay man on the cover of Sports Illustrated,
Broussard briefly started discussing his personal beliefs about homosexuality. "If you're openly living that type of
lifestyle, the Bible says you know them by their fruits, it says that that's a
sin," said Broussard, comparing homosexuality to any other sex outside of
marriage. "If you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be,
I believe that's walking in open rebellion to God and Jesus Christ." Broussard
was on Outside the Lines to discuss the potential ramifications of an
openly gay player in the NBA, and he noted that there were others who felt the
way he did who might have reservations about discussing them openly.
"As
a Christian, I don't agree with homosexuality. I think it's a sin," said
Broussard. "There are a lot of Christians in the NBA, and just because
they don't agree with that lifestyle, they don't want to be called bigoted and
intolerant." The 44-year-old ESPN
Magazine columnist, who previously wrote that the NBA was "ready"
for an openly gay player, has appeared on the network since 2004. When the
interview veered toward the more incendiary comments, he notably started
falling over some of his words and attempted to pad his religious references
with some more diplomatic statements. "A
lot of people understand that it's a politically correct climate," said
Broussard. "I've had some players say that they would be uncomfortable
with a gay player in the locker room … but no one is going to necessarily come
out and say anything. ... If he doesn't get signed next year, it probably won't
be because he came out as gay. He's towards the end of his career and not that
good anymore."
ESPN did not
immediately respond to The Hollywood Reporter's request for comment, and
Broussard already is drawing a considerable amount of fire online.
UPDATE: ESPN issued
the following statement to THR. “We regret that a respectful discussion
of personal viewpoints became a distraction from today’s news. ESPN
is fully committed to diversity and welcomes Jason Collins’ announcement."
UPDATE: Broussard
took to Twitter to expand on his comments:
"Today
on OTL, as part of a larger,
wide-ranging discussion on today's news, I offered my personal opinion as it
relates to Christianity, a point of view that I have expressed publicly before.
I realize that some people disagree with my opinion and I accept and respect
that. As has been the case in the past, my beliefs have not and will not impact
my ability to report on the NBA. I believe Jason Collins displayed bravery with
his announcement today and I have no objection to him or anyone else playing in
the NBA."
Note: Broussard will likely be
forced to step down. In the world of PC,
no other points of view are allowed.
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The French Are Revolting Against “Gay Marriage” by Mark Horne
I can’t wait until
some snooty restaurant refuses to offer French Bread on its menu, but insists
on calling it “Freedom Bread,” the way populist pro-war fast-food owners
started only selling “freedom fries.” The
French, for all their liberalism and Leftism, are completely opposed to their
government’s redefinition of marriage to include same sex relationships. In
fact, the government response was violent and nasty. As the Spectator reports:
“Opposition to the bill has electrified the middle classes, the young and
much of provincial France. On Sunday 24 March, in the freezing cold, the 4km
stretch from the Arche de la Défense to the Arc de Triomphe was full of people
protesting against the bill. On 13 January, also chilly, the Champ de Mars was
similarly crammed. When Johnny Hallyday or the World Cup got crowds like that,
people talked of two million. But the
police, evidently acting under political orders, have claimed that both
demonstrations — which are without doubt the largest public movements in French
history — garnered a few hundred thousand at most. Credible accusations
surfaced in Le Figaro on Monday night that the film taken from police
helicopters on 24 March and released by the Prefecture has been manipulated to
reduce the apparent numbers of demonstrators… Had the mobilisation in Paris taken place in Tahrir Square, the world’s
media would be unanimous that a ‘French spring’ was about to sweep away an
outdated power structure, especially since the demonstrations (including the
daily ones held throughout last week, which culminated in a massive impromptu
rally of 270,000 people on Sunday afternoon) are attended by an overwhelming
number of people in their late teens and early twenties. By the same
token, had the Moscow security forces tear-gassed children and mothers — as the
CRS did on the Champs Elysées on 24 March — or had they dragged away by their
necks youngsters who were peacefully sitting on the lawn after the demo — as
the riot police did on the night of 18 April — then the worldwide moral
policemen on CNN would be frantically firing their rhetorical revolvers. Such
repression would be interpreted as a sign that the regime was desperate. Indeed, had the Ukrainian police removed the
‘tent village’ which formed in central Kiev at the time of the Orange
Revolution in 2004 — as the Paris police bundled more than 60 anti-gay marriage
campers into detention on the night of 14 April — then one suspects that Nato
tanks would have rolled over the Dnieper to their rescue.”
I don’t remember reading anything
about these events in the mainstream media. It seems
clear that France, no matter how
“liberal” really does think that a marriage is about the right to start a
family. France never had homosexual adoption until now and the “civil
union” law was used by heterosexuals as much as homosexuals. The French
government’s commitment to changing all this seems to stem from a need to make
France conform to other nations in the European Union. What this indicates to
me is that we should not assume that liberals are impervious to arguments about
same sex “marriage.” We need to not give up or assume the worse. And we need to pray that France is indeed,
as the Spectator claims, on the verge of a revolution. After the law was
passed, many French rioted in the streets.
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Pentagon Recruits Anti-Christian Extremist To Help Craft
Tolerance Policy by Frank Camp
Over the years, I
have seen much of what makes people tick in regard to political leanings. I
have discovered that the smarter someone is, the easier it is to have a
rational conversation with them. As the curve goes down, and you begin to deal
with less intelligent people, rational conversation becomes more difficult. But more than intelligence, passion plays a
large role in whether or not a person is able to convey their beliefs without
needless aggression and posturing. I have come across people who are so
passionate; they need to believe in something so badly; that they have lost any
ability to deal with opposing views in a calm and rational manner. It just so happens that those who have this
fiery, directionless passion often tend to come from the Left of the aisle. The
Pentagon, under the Obama administration, is developing new policies regarding
religious tolerance in the military. They could have devised a plan that would
really make a difference; help eliminate needless bigotry and unpleasantness
from the military. They could have taken a reasoned and balanced approach;
bringing in multiple people with opposing views, to really reach an
understanding as to how they should proceed. Of course, they did not do that. Instead, they brought in a man named
Mikey Weinstein.
Mikey
Weinstein is the kind of man someone like me would find insufferable; the kind
of man with such aggressive passion that he is unpleasant to be around. That’s not necessarily a terrible thing–if you can take it–but
Mikey’s passion is very focused; Mikey’s
passion is anti-Christian propaganda. On April 16th, in an article
written for The Huffington Post, Mikey Weinstein says some pretty
incredible things. He takes a machete
to Christians and Christianity in general; rather happily slicing his way
through the Christian faith and those who practice it. The following is an
excerpt. It’s a bit long, but worth the read:
“Ladies and Gentlemen, let me tell you of monsters and monstrous wrongs.
And let me tell you what these bloody monsters thrive on…I founded the…Military
Religious Freedom Foundation to do one thing: fight those monsters who would tear down
the Constitutionally-mandated wall separating church and state in the
technologically most lethal entity ever created by humankind, the
U.S. military…Today,
we face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who
terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized and twisted
version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates in our nation’s armed
forces…These days, when ANYone attempts to bravely stand up against virulent
religious oppression, these monstrosities cry out alligator tears in
overflowing torrents and scream that it is, in fact, THEY who are the dispossessed,
bereft and oppressed. C’mon, really, you pitiable unconstitutional
carpetbaggers? … Please, I beseech you! Let us call these ignoble
actions what they are: the senseless and cowardly squallings of human monsters…Queasy
with the bright and promising lights of the cultural realities of the present
day, those evil, fundamentalist Christian creatures and their spiritual
heirs have taken refuge behind flimsy, well-worn, gauze-like euphemistic
facades such as ‘family values’ and ‘religious liberty.’”
Mikey
goes on to compare Christians with 60′s era racists, and rip apart
Christianity in the military and in general. He even suggests that chaplains
who proselytize are ”treasonous,” and should be punished. Finally, he
calls Christian ministry in the military “spiritual rape;” comparing it to
physical, sexual assault. Are you afraid yet?
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SC Congressman DESTROYS Eric Holder’s Bogus Racism
Charges on Voter ID
After viewing this
evisceration of the DOJ (and indeed, the entire Democrat Party and all its
left-wing fanboys in the blogosphere), one is simply baffled why every GOP
member isn’t out there with as much principled tenacity. SHARE this stellar
video to counter the false allegations regarding racism and voter ID! Watch
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Russian Scientists Predict Onset of Global Cooling James M. Taylor, J.D.
A prolonged decline
in solar output will begin sometime around 2040 and subject the Earth to global
cooling that will last 200-250 years, scientists at Russia’s Pulkovo
Observatory report. "Evidently,
solar activity is on the decrease,”
explained Pulkovo scientist Yuri Nagovitsyn. “The 11-year cycle doesn’t
bring about considerable climate change – only 1-2%. The impact of the 200-year
cycle is greater – up to 50%. In this respect, we could be in for a cooling
period that lasts 200-250 years. Nagovitsyn said the cooling will be
substantial, though not quite as strong as the cooling that occurred during the
Maunder Minimum in the depths of the Little Ice Age during the late 1600s. The period of low solar activity could start
in 2030-2040 but it won’t be as pervasive as in the late 17th century,” said
Nagovitsyn. Nagovitsyn explained that variations in solar output are a significant
factor in global climate change. “Once solar activity declines, the temperature
drops,” Nagovitsyn noted.
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Democrats Still Denying Washington Has a Spending Problem
In case you haven’t
checked lately, the U.S. National Debt has hit a whopping $16.8 trillion and is
climbing higher by the second. To make matters worse, President Obama recently
proposed another increase in spending for his 2014 budget. Why? He doesn’t think Washingon has a
spending problem and neither do many of his fellow Democrats helping to push
his agenda. Call them the debt crisis dissenters.
The two parties are
miles apart on how to cut the deficit and national debt: Republicans want to
slash spending even more. Democrats want to raise revenue. And then there are
the other Democrats — the ones who reject the entire premise of the current
high-stakes fiscal fight. There’s no short-term deficit problem, they say, and
there isn’t even an urgent debt crisis that requires immediate attention.
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Explosive Report Contradicts the Obama Administration’s
Benghazi Story in a Big Way Jason Howerton
The U.S. government
had the ability to “react and respond” to the Benghazi terrorist attack and
could have had forces on the ground before the second wave of the assault
began, a special operator with knowledge of the response told Fox News in an
exclusive interview. Due to the explosive nature of his allegations, the
special ops member asked to remain anonymous. “I know for a fact that C 110, the EUCOM CIF, was doing a training
exercise, not in the region of northern Africa, but in Europe. And they had the
ability to react and respond,” he told Fox News. The C 110 is a 40-man
Special Ops force capable of rapid response and deployment, a group trained specifically for an event
like the Benghazi attack, Fox News reports. The unit was training in Croatia on
Sept. 11, 2012, just 3.5 hours away from Benghazi. “They would have been there before the second
attack,” the anonymous special operator said. “They would have been there at a
minimum to provide a quick reaction force that could facilitate their exfil out
of the problem situation.” He continued: “Nobody knew how it was going to develop, and you hear a whole bunch of
people and a whole bunch of advisors say, ‘Hey, we wouldn’t have sent them
there because the security was unknown situation.’ If it’s an unknown
situation, at a minimum you send forces there to facilitate the exfil or
medical injuries. We could have sent a C 130 to Benghazi to provide medical
evacuation for the injured.”
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Solution to Terror? Shut Down Mosques
Interesting theory.
Those connected to terror should certainly be shut down.
A “human rights”
organization is calling on government authorities to shut down three U.S.
mosques it claims are not merely religious centers, but political entities and
“breeding grounds for jihad terror.” The American Freedom Defense Initiative,
or AFDI, explains its demands are part of an 18-point plan to protect the
nation from Islamic terror in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings. AFDI Executive Director
Pamela Geller said in a statement, “In accord
with those calls for responsible law enforcement regarding subversive
activities in U.S. mosques, we are asking that government and law enforcement
officials launch immediate investigations into the Islamic Society of Boston,
the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque of Fairfax County, Va., and the Noor Center of
Columbus, Ohio.” “Any mosque advocating
jihad or any aspects of Shariah that conflict with constitutional freedoms and
protections should be closed,” AFDI insists.
AFDI argues shutting
down the mosques wouldn’t be a violation of the Constitution’s First Amendment
protecting freedom of religion, because Islam is not merely a religion, but a
“political system.”
Why? or Why not?
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GAO Now Investigating DHS Ammo Purchases By Elizabeth Flock
The Government
Accountability Office tells Whispers it is now investigating large ammunition
purchases made by the Department of Homeland Security. Chuck Young, a spokesman
for GAO, says the investigation of the purchases is "just getting
underway." The congressional investigative agency is jumping into the fray
just as legislation was introduced in both the Senate and the House to restrict
the purchase of ammo by some government agencies (except the Department of
Defense). The AMMO Act, introduced Friday, would prevent agencies from buying
more ammunition if "stockpiles" are greater than what they were in
previous administrations. Donelle Harder, a spokeswoman for Sen. Jim Inhofe,
R-Okla., who introduced the legislation in the Senate, tells Whispers the bill
would also require GAO to share the findings of its report on DHS purchases
with Congress. Officials at DHS have denied to both Whispers and lawmakers that
it is stockpiling ammunition. The Associated
Press reported in February that DHS wanted to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds
of ammunition, but DHS officials testified last week it was only planning to
buy up to 750 million.
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