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Remembering Elizabeth Taylor February 27, 1932 - March 23, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor has died at the age of 79.  Here is my tribute to her.











Here is a young Elizabeth Taylor in the 1940's



Here is Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra





Elizabeth Taylor stars in one of my favorite horse movies. Here is a clip from the movie National Velvet.  






Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in The Sandpiper






































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Remembering Dr. Bernard Nathanson: An Unlikely Hero of Human Dignity

There have been quite a few defections from the pro-abort side but no convert to the pro-life side comes near in prominence or influence as Dr. Bernard Nathanson.  He was a doctor who once performed thousands of abortions but ended up being an unlikely hero of human dignity.  Dr. Bernard Nathanson, R.I.P. 


Here is the article from Mercatornet:  




During four decades of the abortion wars in the United States there has been much traffic across the battle lines. Many who should have been on the pro-life side positioned themselves in the opposite ranks -- the deceptively named Catholics for a Free Choice is the prime example. This was the easy path, a case of going with the cultural flow under the influence of leading institutions in the media and political life.
Defections from the pro-abortion side, however, have been much more significant, not to mention heroic. Norma McCorvey, the “Jane Roe” plaintiff of the 1973 Supreme Court case which issued in the legalising of abortion throughout the US, became a high profile opponent of abortion and eventually petitioned the Supreme Court to overturn its Roe v Wade decision. Many others have followed her in the public renunciation of the killing of unborn children, most recently Abby Johnson, a young Planned Parenthood clinic operator from Texas, whose story was published last month.
But no convert to the pro-life cause comes near in prominence or influence to Dr Bernard Nathanson, one of the original abortion rights campaigners, who died on Monday at the age of 84. Dr Nathanson, did as much as anyone to launch abortion as a regular means of birth control, but for that very reason he also did more to discredit it once he faced the truth about this “procedure” and began to write and speak against it.
Culture wars -- those that matter -- are always about truth. As an obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Nathanson knew that there was a living human being in the womb of a pregnant woman but he turned his face against this scientific fact -- in the first instance, perhaps, because abortion assisted his own lifestyle. At college in the 1940s he got his girlfriend pregnant and used money from his father to pay for her (illegal) abortion. “It served as my introduction into the satanic world of abortion,” he later wrote. After settling in New York he got another girlfriend pregnant and decided to abort the child -- his child too -- himself. How often denial of the truth is motivated by one’s own misdeeds!
The fact that many people were doing botched illegal abortions provided another excuse for the legalisation campaign that Dr Nathanson became caught up in during the late 1960s. “Illegal abortion was in 1967 the number one killer of pregnant women,” he wrote. Justifications paved the way for lies. In Aborting America (1979) he admitted:
We aroused enough sympathy to sell our program of permissive abortion by fabricating the number of illegal abortions done annually in the U.S. The actual figure was approaching 100,000 but the figure we gave to the media repeatedly was 1,000,000.  Repeating the big lie often enough convinces the public.  The number of women dying from illegal abortions was around 200-250 annually.  The figure we constantly fed to the media was 10,000.  These false figures took root in the consciousness of Americans convincing many that we needed to crack the [anti] abortion law.
Another lie -- one that is told wherever abortion is promoted -- was perpetrated by the name, Centre for Reproductive and Sexual Health, given to the New York abortion clinic where, from 1970 to 1972, Dr Nathanson, as director and by his own account, “presided over 60,000 deaths”. The “health” claim in the now numbingly familiar phrase, “sexual and reproductive health”, presumably is based on providing abortions which don’t kill women, but it is entirely cancelled out by the 100 per cent death rate for unborn children.
What brought the abortion “rights” crusader to change his mind -- and, more importantly, his heart? Partly it was peer pressure: because of his public profile as an abortionist he began to be treated as a pariah in legitimate medical circles and received fewer obstetrical referrals. Surely, even at that early stage, it was also the fervour of the right-to-life movement that sprang up in opposition to the abortion campaign -- although he deplored the “blind polarity” and “screaming placards” of both groups in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1974.
In that article, however, Dr Nathanson expressed his misgivings about abortion and the “cry” used to justify it: “that nothing can be human life that cannot exist independently”. There was no longer, he said, “serious doubt in my mind that human life exists within the womb from the very onset of pregnancy…” Why? Because technology was making liars of everyone who held otherwise:
Electrocardiographic evidence of heart function has been established in embryos as early as six weeks. Electroencephalographic recordings of human brain activity have been noted in embryos at eight weeks. Our capacity to measure signs of life is daily becoming more sophisticated, and as time goes by, we will doubtless be able to isolate life signs at earlier and earlier stages in fetal development.
He performed his last abortion in 1979.  CONTINUED








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Passing of a WWII Icon: Edith Shain

From PR Newswire Edith Shain, the nurse who in 1945 kissed a U.S. sailor in front of Times Square in celebration of the end of WWII, has passed away.

From U.S. Newswire: "Ms. Shain was a Registered Nurse, kindergarten teacher, public access cable television producer who became a world famous figure following her participation in the 50th Anniversary of V-J Day in August of 1995."

Her son Michael Shain described the photo as having captured "an epic moment in American history, one that inspired patriotism, unity, joy and a spontaneous national pride in victoriously ending the war."

Lifetime Highlights of World War II "Icon" Edith Shain:



•Born and raised in Tarrytown New York July 29, 1918


•New York Hunter High School graduate (age 16)


•1947 graduate from New York Doctors Nursing School


•Bachelors degree in education New York University


•Hancock Park & Burbank Kindergarten Teacher (30 yrs)


•Continued nursing license, working night shift at Cedars Lebanon.


•She was the subject of a Life magazine article in 1979 her and Eisenstadt


•Co-founder, Producer of Full Disclosure Public Access TV Program in Los Angeles


•Director, American Association of Women, Public Affairs Education


Edith Shain's participation in Veteran Memorial events included :


•60TH Year Anniversary WW II to New York Times Square


•25 ft. statute next to the war ship in San Diego


•Grand Marshall of numerous parades


•Grand Marshall Veterans Day in NY City


•Laid Down the wreath of WW2 Tundra Tomb Washington DC


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Dr. Alvarado Dies From Crash Injuries

BALTIMORE -- Dr. José "Joe" Alvarado, a Salisbury pediatrician who was critically injured in a car crash Wednesday near Pittsville, died Saturday night at the Shock-Trauma Center at University of Maryland Hospital, said Cindy Rivers, a hospital spokeswoman.

Alvarado, 50, who had practiced in Salisbury for nearly 30 years, had been listed in critical condition since being flown to the Baltimore trauma center Wednesday evening. He died at about 9:15 p.m. Saturday.


Alvarado was driving east on Route 50 near Sixty Foot Road in the Pittsville area at about 2:25 p.m. Wednesday when his Mercedes convertible veered off the road and slammed into a large trailer attached to a truck, which was broken down on the road's shoulder.
The impact of the crash overturned the 21-foot trailer and dislodged two of its axles. Alvarado's car was mangled. Its hood was ripped away and the engine block was exposed.
A graduate of the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Alvarado was chief of pediatrics at Peninsula Regional Medical Center and operator of a well-established practice on Pemberton Drive. He completed his residency at University Pediatric Hospital in Puerto Rico.
Alvarado had been a doctor in the Salisbury medical community since 1988. He opened an office on Pemberton Drive in 2000, and later built a larger office nearby.
Peninsula Regional President Peggy Naleppa called Alvarado a "well-loved, admired and respected member" of the medical staff and said the PRMC family was saddened by his tragic loss.
"Dr. Alvarado was a dedicated physician leader, an outstanding pediatrician and a well loved, admired and respected member of our medical staff," Naleppa said in a statement.
Alvarado joined PRMC in 1988 and had served as chief of pediatrics since 2006. "It was a role in which he excelled," Naleppa said, "and his knowledge and vision was invaluable in the clinical advancement and growth of our Pediatric Unit during his tenure as its chief.''
Alvarado's wife, Margarita, also worked in the Pemberton Road practice. Alvarado was the father of four sons, Jose, Ricky, David and Juan. One son who is attending medical school in Tennessee.
A Facebook page created to send Internet messages of support to the family had 2,941 members by Saturday evening. As news of his death spread, the page was filling with condolense messages.
A foundation in Alvarado’s name has been established through the United Way of the Lower Eastern Shore..
A special Thank You goes out to all my blogging friends for all your prayers during this tough time for the Alvarado Family. Even though I am financially challenged at this time I have decided to go to the funeral in Salisbury on Wednesday.

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