Shocking: Tim Tebow and His Mom

It was shocking. How could CBS run such a thing during the Super Bowl? Pam Tebow, mom of Florida Quarterback Tim Tebow, appeared in an ad on Super Bowl Sunday with her famous son. Mrs. Tebow talked about how many times she almost lost Tim and how much she loves her son. Tim (after tackling his mom in one version of the ad – it was computer generated, he didn’t really tackle her), then hugs his mom and says he loves her too.

Here’s what N.O.W. said about the ad BEFORE it ran:

The Offense: During the Feb. 7 telecast of the Super Bowl, CBS will air an anti-abortion commercial produced and paid for by the ultra-conservative group Focus on the Family.

NOW’s Analysis: Focus on the Family has an aggressively anti-abortion, anti-LGBT, anti-woman agenda. This ad reportedly promotes the decision of one woman to go against her doctor’s advice to terminate an at-risk pregnancy. While NOW would never disparage any woman’s reproductive choice, we believe that all women should be free to make the decision that is right for them. We also believe that this ad could potentially put women’s health and lives at risk by promoting ideology over medicine.

NOW President Terry O’Neil referred to  the planned ad as “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.”

Apparently the NOW President didn’t actually see the ad before hand, but gave her knee-jerk response because the ad was paid for by Focus on the Family.

Personally, I am SHOCKED! Pam Tebow loves her son and Tim Tebow loves his mom. How dare CBS run such an ad with so many people watching.

I actually should thank groups like NOW and Move-On for making such a fuss about the ad for weeks now, because Focus on the Family likely received a lot more visits to see the whole Tebow story because of all the free pre-game coverage.

You can see both ads and hear the rest of the story at Focus on the Family.

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(By the way, congratulations to the New Orleans Saints for their win over the Indianapolis Colts).

200,000!

200,000 hits!

The first 100,000 came a bit faster thanks to Governor Huckabee, but it’s nice to know that OneMom has stilled managed another 100,000 with the more mundane posts of life.

Thanks to all who visit here.

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Friday Flyer

• Who will be 200,000? My husband pointed out to me yesterday that I am closing in on 200,000 hits here on the OneMom blog, and I’m wondering if it will be someone I know or if it will be someone who didn’t mean to stop by here at all. Either way, all are welcome.
  
• OneMom is actually in the process of moving (the blog not the person), but I decided to hang around here on WordPress since I’m so close to 200,000.
• I heard a news story yesterday that said that “Washington” is referring to the tea-party movement as un-American. I’m not sure who in Washington said this, but since when is protesting the government un-American? That sounds like the Iranian or Chinese governments.
• While Toyota is receiving non-stop media coverage for its various pedal problems, the Chevy Cobalt is facing a recall of 905,000 vehicles for faulty steering, but I’ve heard very little about it. The Toyota coverage has been excessive – I don’t suppose the U.S. media would have any alternative motives for this type of coverage?
• Speaking of tea-parties, I see that Tom Tancredo has found a new stage to emphasize President Obama’s middle name.
  
• Alan Keyes has also found a new audience at a tea-party cruise to the U.S. Virgin Islands (apparently these tea-partiers have not been adversely hit by the economy).
  
• Keyes continues to rant about President Obama’s birth certificate. Personally, this type of rhetoric is not going to help the movement be taken seriously.
  
• Today is wear red day to raise awareness about women and cardiovascular diseases. If asked, many people will say that breast cancer is the leading cause of death for women, and they couldn’t be more wrong.
  • In 2005, cardiovascular disease was the cause of death for 454,613 women. Breast cancer was the cause of death for 41,116.
  • Cardiovascular diseases actually kill more women each year than all cancers combined.
  • While many still think of cardiovascular diseases as being more common in men, women actually account for about 52 percent of all deaths related to CVD.
    
  • Do you know your numbers? Blood pressure? Total cholesterol? HDL? LDL? Triglycerides?
    
  • Are you a healthy weight? Do you exercise at LEAST 30 minutes every day?
• The medical journal Lancet announced this week that they are retracting a 1998 article that associated autism with the Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) vaccine. Many, many studies since then have shown repeatedly that there is no association with vaccines and autism, but since that article was published in 1998, there are many people who cannot be bothered with the facts. I’m glad that Lancet has retracted the article, but at this point it’s like trying to put spilled milk back in the bottle.
  
• While that pesky groundhog saw his shadow and threatened us with six more weeks of winter, we here at OneMom are going with the forecast from the Mayor of Basset Hound Town.
  
• Just so we’re clear, I’ll be watching the Super Bowl on Sunday and I’ll be cheering for the Indianapolis Colts.
  

Off to work …

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Tuesday Thoughts

• Many republicans and conservatives were thrilled when Scott Brown, Republican won the open senate seat for Massachusetts. Unfortunately, just because someone claims “republican” as their party, doesn’t mean they are a conservative. Scott Brown’s view is:
  • Abortions should always be legally available.
  • Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
  • Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
• Scott Brown is against late-term abortions, but that’s not enough for me. The democrats may have lost their super majority in the senate, but all conservatives gained was another RHINO.
• President Obama’s new budget arrived yesterday. One feature is that banks with more than $50 billion in assets will have to pay a fee to the U.S. Government. How do you suppose those banks will cover the costs of their fee? That’s right, they’ll charge us another fee. And who do I get to cover the expense of the banks new fees?
  
• I heard the new budget also eliminates oil subsidies … I can only assume the Exxon will pass their losses onto us as well. The big boys won’t be hurt by this new budget, but we’ll feel it for certain.

Off to work so I can afford these fees and higher gas prices.

OneMom

Friday Flyer

• A two-year technical college in Nelsonville, Ohio received a threat that black students would be killed on February 2, 2010. Some students have permanently withdrawn from the school. The college spokesperson had this to say:
  
  • “Any time that there are young people, you know, there’s going to be tension … Young people will be young people.”
    
• Hatred will get us nowhere. A person’s young age should not be a reason to excuse this.
  
• We have returned to a deep-freeze after a rather mild two-weeks here in the UP. Wind chill this morning is -15 degrees.
  
• Despite our cold air, it looks like Oklahoma and Texas are dealing with much worse winter weather than we are. I hope Larry, Jamison, and Dominique (all Oklahoma bloggers) are safe and secure. This is the second time in just a few weeks that Oklahoma has been hit with ice. Personally, I would rather have three feet of snow than even .25 inches of ice.
• There has been much discussion in the news this week about how many jobs the stimulus has (or has not) created. In December 2008 I wrote a post looking at some proposals from US Cities and how few jobs the money they were requesting would create. All the stimulus talk this week reminds me that I need to follow-up on that post.
  
• Now that I’ve been back in the workforce for over five months, I see there are a lot of people – even those with jobs – who are very unhappy everyday. I make it a point to make a quick trip through my building each morning and smile and say good morning to those I see. It is quite obvious to me that even such a simple gesture is painful for many people to even have to endure. More on that and other observations later.

I’m off to work. Oh, and in case you don’t work where I do, let me greet you with a cheery Good Morning!

OneMom

Bye-Bye Andre?

With South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford (R) leaving a less than stellar legacy behind, the Republicans were already facing an uphill battle to retain the Governor’s seat in the Palmetto State, but Lt. Governor Andre Bauer (R) just made it even more unlikely:

Bauer said that poor parents of students who eat free or reduced-price meals in school cafeterias should be required to attend parent-teacher conferences, or the students should go without.

I don’t disagree that there should be responsibility and accountability built into these programs, but to withhold food from the children is crossing a line that I must disagree with. Whatever you do to the least of these …

If Bauer had stopped there, most of us would probably have never heard his remark, but he just had to keep talking:

“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed,” Bauer said, according to the Greenville News. “You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better.”

So, let’s not feed the poor or the uneducated and let them die off? Building in responsibility to assistance programs is beneficial to everyone, but the type of cruelty and intolerance that Bauer displayed does nothing to help Christians or Conservatives.

Bauer is of course backpedaling on his blog, telling us what he “meant”. Unfortunately, what he said was most likely closer to what he actually believes and what is in his heart.

Perhaps a better choice for the Republicans in South Carolina is Nikki Haley, a fiscal and social conservative who appears to have her priorities in the right order.

For now, bye-bye Andre.

OneMom

Friday Flyer

• Friday – finally.
  
• This week has been intense at work. I am still covering two communities, so I am trying to do two full-time jobs in 40 hours a week. While I do not mind hard work, I have been gone too much and missing time with my family.
• I have heard little news this week, but enough to know that the people of Haiti are facing tragedy on a level that most of us will never know. If you want to donate money to help, please do so through Samaritan’s Purse.
• We are enjoying a brief respite from the harshness of winter that has been non-stop since Thanksgiving, and we are thankful.
  
• We are also enjoying our new home. I am hoping this weekend to be able to start writing about the journey God brought us through to get to this wonderful home.
• As we have been unpacking, I have found items that I had not seen in quite some time. One of my most favorites? My Mom’s old dishes:
• Nell came up very short in the voting this week. I missed the deadline to get her into the week two competition. I’ll get her back into week three which will start next Friday, January 22nd.
  

Time for work, I’ll write more later …

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