Oh, dear lord, sometimes you read something over at Post Politics so stupid you wish you had someone in the room with you to read it out loud to. This was in a press release Ron Ramsey, who is running for governor, sent out today:
Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region had received approval from the HSDA in December to relocate to 1750 Madison Avenue in Memphis. The location would have housed two surgical rooms where over 700 abortions would have been performed annually. Memphis Catholic High School as well as a nursing home for retired priests is located two-tenths of a mile from the site.
Yes, people, “as well as a nursing home for retired priests.” While not on par with David Fowler’s squawking last year about ultrasounds that clearly revealed he had no idea what an actual ultrasound is like, this is still pretty damn hilarious.
Filed under: Politics and Other Nonsense, The State of Tennessee
Random fact: the present location is <1.5 miles away from the school.
Maybe that’s far enough away that it’s not obvious when the retired priests are sneaking in there for their abortions?
Ha ha ha.
I wonder what the magical distance Ramsey is willing to use the power of the state to force sinners to stay away from priests is? And how is that going to affect the design of future Catholic churches?
One would think the Catholic church would welcome their new neighbors.
The retired priests get access to little children without violating their sex offender status and dead fetuses can’t sue the diocese.
Win-win.
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HAW HAW HAW. Awesome.
But why no link to the Fowler story? I wasn’t living here! I don’t remember it! NO FAIR!
Ha, sorry. Let me see if I can find it.
Oh, it’s okay, I looked it up!
A few times doctors have performed vaginal ultrasounds on me without my noticing, but that’s because I have a giant vagina.
But I already went and found it! I’ll link to it anyway for other folks who may not remember (here).
And I would vote for this man to represent me why?
I’m impressed that retired priests have their own nursing homes.
Um, that last comment of mine was in re: the Fowler story. Not just an unsolicited announcement.
Jo: I thought that was the best non-sequitur of the day.
If they are retired priests, they are probably thinking, damn, I am so glad I don’t have to pretend I am all pissed off about abortion now….
Ohhh, that was mean.
But really, most priests I’ve known just looked pained when the subject is brought up, not morally indignant.
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Ask Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey how he and other Northeast Tennesee anti-abortion rights Republicans (i.e.: Jason Mumpower, David Davis, Steve Godsey) actually helped John Gregory’s Monarch Pharmaceuticals (a subsidiary of Gregory’s Bristol based King Pharmaceuticals) and Hoechst Marion Roussel (HMR, subsidiary of the German giant pharmaceutical company Hoechst AG,one-time patent owner and manufacturer of abortion drug RU-486 ) circumvent the U.S. National Right to Life Committee consumer boycott against Hoechst and Hoechst pharmaceutical products including ALTACE…
During 1994, the U.S. National Right to Life Committee announced a U.S. boycott of all Hoechst pharmaceutical products including Altace in opposition to the distribution and sale of the Hoechst RU-486 abortion prescription drug and by September 17 the anti-abortion organization, Pharmacists For Life International, joined the NRLC boycott, “…against the American subsidiary of Hoechst AG, Hoechst-Roussel, Hoechst-Celanese, its generic subsidiary Coply Pharmaceuticals and the agricultural Hoechst subsidiary” while asking U.S. consumers to “…focus on key Hoechst drugs which have the most economic impact rather than taking an across-the-board shotgun approach” and specifically targeting Altace as a boycott list item.
Gregory’s Monarch Pharmaceuticals did not buy Altace from HRM outright, but only obtained U.S. marketing and distribution rights to Altace and certain other Hoechst products, thereby actually becoming business partners with Hoechst.
Abd if you should examine some of the earliest King Pharmaceutical filings (yearly reports available through the Edgar Search) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, you would also learn that Monarch Pharma was actually purchasing ALTACE ingredients from Hoechst during the time before Monarch Pharma obtained FDA approval for ALTACE being processing at Monarch’s facilities.
Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and his political connection to Altace, Hoechst Marion Roussel
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=179×4843
YouTube: commercial about King Pharma and Ramsey
Answers.com: Company History – Hoechst AG
http://www.answers.com/ topic/hoechst-ag
excerpt:
With operations in 120 nations around the globe, Hoechst (pronounced “herckst”) A.G. is the world’s largest chemical manufacturer. By the mid-1990s, less than 25 percent of its annual revenues were generated in its home country of Germany. From its roots as a dyestuffs producer, the company grew to become one of that nation’s top three chemical firms. It was a key component of the IG Farben chemical cartel, and emerged from the post-World War II breakup of that conglomerate as a strong and growing entity. Hoechst developed a particular focus on pharmaceuticals in the ensuing decades, but its diverse product line–including agricultural and industrial chemicals, fibers, polymers, and engineering services–helped to shelter it from vacillations in any one market. In 1996 the Kuwaiti government, through Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, continued to hold the 25 percent stake in Hoechst that it had first acquired over a decade before.
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As the twin demons of recession and drug industry consolidation bedeviled Hoechst in the early to mid-1990s, the company devised new strategies. Key among them was the joint venture, wherein two or more companies share the costs and benefits of researching, developing, and marketing new products. Joint ventures with Courtaulds in fibers, Schering in pesticides, and Wacker in plastics were expected to boost productivity in these lagging sectors. Cooperative projects such as these also helped forge vital relationships in new and emerging markets. In 1990, for example, the company signed an agreement with Japan’s Teijin to manufacture flame-retardant fibers.
Ironically, acquisitions were also used as economizing measures, as Hoechst executives expected to squeeze economies of scale from new affiliates. Accordingly, the company acquired three European powder coatings operations, a German fibers producer, and a controlling stake in an American manufacturer of generic drugs. In a 1995 bid to re-establish itself as a leading player in the drug business, the company acquired Marion Merrell Dow for US$7.1 billion. The merger moved Hoechst into third place in the continuously consolidating pharmaceutical industry.
I call BS on that press release of Ramsey’s on the basis of it looking awfully suspicious that someone exaggerated the truth to create more drama about it.
What I just posted at PP:
It appears to me that the “nursing home for retired priests”, which is actually an error, was added to this by Ramsey or his people for dramatic flair.
Yes, there is a nursing home down there – St. Peter Villa – and there are probably some retired Catholic clergy in it, but it’s not a “nursing home for retired priests”.
There is, yep, residential housing for priests in the immediate vicinity, as noted by The Commercial Appeal:
http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/dec/16/no-headline—2009-12-16-161815063716/
But when I read the cut of Ramsey’s press statement above, having lived in Memphis for over 22 years, when I read the “nursing home for retired priests” it immediately smelled like intentional drama to me. The truth of the nursing home (for lots besides retired priests) is a point of contention in the issue, I suppose, but it sure does look suspicious that the erroneous reference was added for dramatic flair.
Well, good, because that means there won’t be scads of retired priests apending their days harrassing the women who go in and out getting their routine health care.
Oy. Spending, not appending.
NM, I thought “appending their days” sounded nicely poetic.
Lynnster, your comment just made my whole day. I suppose Ramsey can lie about Memphis because he’s already written off his chances of winning in Memphis, but still… It’s strange. And funny.
Yeah… there may be something down there I don’t know about and St. Peter Villa is kind of a complex with lots of different parts, but it just seemed suspect to me that it was phrased the way it was. And especially after I went to the Commercial Appeal article and no mention of “a nursing home for retired priests” was made. It just seemed like something someone embellished on purpose for drama.
Here’s what’s even funnier tho – there’s an orphanage in the same general vicinity (also run by the Catholic Church). And if I’m not mistaken and it hasn’t moved, a Ronald McDonald House. I mean…. duh?
It would seem the embellisher not only was slightly erroneous with what they did for dramatic flair, but missed a huge opportunity to be way more dramatic! Ha!