A La Carte (7/23)

BP’s Photoshopping - BP has been photoshopping images of their work in the Gulf. And, not surprisingly, people have noticed and called them out on it. You can see their really bad Photoshop work at the link.

Facebook’s 500 Million - Facebook recently welcomed its 500 millionth user (! - that deserves an exclamation mark). Here is an infographic telling a little bit about who those 500 million people are, where they come from, and so on.

Seven Lines a Day - “Take 74-year-old John Basinger. When he was 58, he decided on a lark to see if he could memorize Milton’s Paradise Lost. The whole thing. All 60,000-plus words. It took him nine years, but he pulled it off and has even recited it in public. That takes three days. It’s a long poem.”

$5 Friday - Ligonier has a few good items for sale in their $5 Friday sale. Both A Taste of Heaven and The Reformation are well worth that price.

Rick Warren - Rick Warren writes about an incident that happened to him this week. “Monday morning (my day off) I was cutting back a huge African Fire Stick plant in my yard (a smaller version is pictured below.) Even though I was wearing gloves, I somehow later accidentally got some of the toxic sap on my hands and then in my eyes. The resin is quite corrosive and burned both of my eyes. In excruciating pain, Kay called 911 paramedics who rushed me to a hospital.”

Undercover Planned Parenthood Video - Here is another hidden video taken at a Planned Parenthood consultation. This time the young girl is told that abortion is safer than carrying a baby to full term. (HT:Z)

Comments (7)

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Anonymous's picture

All the stats I can find online suggest that the morality rate from legal abortion is lower than the mortality rate from pregnancy. So I’m not certain they’re lying.

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Anonymous's picture

J.P., what about the mortality rates for the babies? Also, the abortion clinic staff stated that “in terms of complications” abortion is safer than carrying the baby to term. The after-effects of abortion are many, both physical and emotional. And she certainly did also lie about the other questions asked. Absolutely chilling to hear her dispassionate voice as she deliberately misled that young woman about legitimate concerns in a life-and-death situation.

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Anonymous's picture

Obviously the mortality rate for the babies is 100%, but that’s not what I understood was being discussed. If she specifically stated “in terms of complications” (I didn’t watch the video) then she most assuredly did not lie, since abortion really is “safer” in that respect.

Yes, there are adverse psychological implications to abortion. No, she didn’t mention them. If you want to criticize her for the sin of omission, then I’d agree with that criticism. Tim’s blurb below the link, though, seemed to imply he thought she was lying about abortion being “safer” with respect to complication-related morality.

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Anonymous's picture

Rick, dude!Get another plant!Who keeps stuff like that around their house?That blurb next to the picture of the plant is scary!

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Anonymous's picture

Glad to hear that Rick Warren will recover.

I want to give him the benefit of the doubt in that he is just using the vernacular of the day when he refers to this as an “accident”. Guess it was also just a “coincidence” that his wife was there to call the paramedics.

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Anonymous's picture

The US Facebook user base is more than twice the population of South Africa! That’s a lot of users!

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Anonymous's picture

Wow, 500 million people droning on about what they had for breakfast or what color socks they’re wearing. I’m so impressed.