The use of dynamic modeling can help to identify the engineering and economic feasibility of any proposed project. This sample project as published in Chemical Engineering Magazine involving the conversion of solid waste to synfuel, shows how.
by Jack Cashill {WND.com}
With
her first appointment to the Kansas Supreme Court as governor in 2003,
Democrat Kathleen Sebelius chose the proudly “third-wave” feminist,
Carol Beier. It was a timely choice. That same year, Republican Phill
Kline took office as Kansas Attorney General. From Beier’s perspective,
Kline represented a serious threat to the “reproductive freedom” that
she, Sebelius, and other third-wavers espoused.
As Kline
sensed before taking office, the state’s two dominant abortion
providers, Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and
Mid-Missouri (CHPPKM) in suburban Kansas City and George Tiller’s
Women’s Health Care clinic in Wichita, were ignoring state restrictions
on late term abortion, Tiller flagrantly. What Kline discovered only
after a multi-year fight with Sebelius’s people to get access to
relevant records was that both clinics were grossly ignoring mandatory
reporting laws on child rape.
Of the 166 abortions
performed on girls under-fifteen in the years 2002 and 2003, the clinics
reported only three cases to the state department of Social and
Rehabilitation Services. They should have reported all 166.
Kline was prepared to press charges against both Tiller and CHPPKM. For reasons of ideology and campaign finance, Sebelius could not let this happen.
To begin, Sebelius persuaded Paul Morrison, a popular
Republican district attorney from Johnson County in suburban Kansas
City, to change parties and run against Kline in 2006. The state
abortion industry invested nearly $2 million to help the local media
defeat Kline.
To the dismay of the abortion industry,
however, Kline was elected to fulfill the remaining two years on
Morrison’s term as Johnson County DA. From that position, he was able to
continue the investigation into CHPPKM he had begun as attorney
general.
In October 2007, Kline filed 107 counts, 23 of
them felonies, against CHPPKM. District Court Judge James Vano found
“probable cause” of crimes having been committed and allowed the case to
proceed.
Planned Parenthood and new AG Morrison sued Kline to
derail the prosecution. When the case reached the Kansas Supreme
Court, the justices grudgingly ruled in Kline’s favor and allowed his
case against Planned Parenthood to go forward. If the facts supported
Kline, Judge Beier clearly did not. “His attitude and behavior are
inexcusable,” she wrote for the majority , “particularly for someone who
purports to be a professional prosecutor.”
Associated
Press writer John Hanna uncritically described her summary as “a public
tongue-lashing.” A Topeka reporter termed her opinion “a searing
condemnation.” The Kansas City Star headlined its story, “Kansas Court
Rebukes District Attorney Kline.” And remember, Kline won the case.
If
the media were blind to what was happening, then Kansas Supreme Court
Chief Justice, Kay McFarland, was not. She called Beier’s opinion “ the
very antithesis of ‘restraint and discretion’ and . . . not an
appropriate exercise of our inherent power.” McFarland scolded Beier
and the majority for attempting “to denigrate Kline for actions that it
cannot find to have been in violation of any law and to heap scorn upon
him for his attitude and behavior that does not rise to the level of
contempt.”
McFarland may have suspected that
Beier’s hectoring of Kline was not spontaneous. Earlier that year, in
fact, Beier co-authored a provocative paper that endorsed a strategy
very much like the one used to defame Kline. The paper was written for
the Feminist Legal Theory and Feminisms (sic) Conference sponsored by
the University of Baltimore School of Law and dealt with what is called
third-wave feminism and its effect on parenting law.
The article’s closing quote by Gloria Steinem captures the spirit of this radical feminist incarnation. “We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned,” said the feminist icon and all-purpose leftist. “We are really talking about humanism.” Understanding that tradition is not easily discarded in a state like Kansas, Beier and Walsh cite approvingly a strategy suggested by feminist law professor Bridget Crawford.
Write the authors,
“Crawford posits that the third-wave’s reclamation of feminism through
engagement with the media is powerful ‘cultural work’ that may be a
necessary pre-condition to an evolution in the law.”
According
to Crawford, “The media are tools to produce cultural infrastructure,
without which even the best intentioned and artfully designed legal
reforms are ineffective.” Beier knew something about the media. Before
going to law school, she worked several years for the Kansas City Times,
the then sister publication of the Kansas City Star.
The
Star proved to be the most useful of all media “tools” at Beier’s
disposal. Indeed, the paper won Planned Parenthood’s top 2006 national
editorial honor for its work defeating “anti-choice zealot” Kline and
attacked him relentlessly thereafter. So powerful was the media’s
“cultural work” that in May 2007 Sebelius had no qualms about letting
Planned Parenthood celebrate her birthday at a big Kansas City blow-out.
Leading
the “conga line around the concert hall” was Peter Brownlie, the local
CEO whose abortion clinic was then at the center of Kline’s
investigation. The partiers “sure know how to have fun!” enthused the
Planned Parenthood newsletter. With the cultural infrastructure so well
established, Kline lost his re-election bid and was forced to leave the
state to find employment.
Wanting to make an example of Kline
lest some other prosecutor challenge Planned Parenthood in the future,
the activists on the Supreme Court prompted an ethics investigation into
Kline’s handling of the abortion cases. Ironically, one of the charges
was that Kline did not share the scope of his investigation with
Sebelius. This was true. Kline feared her people would hamper the
investigation and possibly destroy evidence.
As it turned out, they did both. Planned Parenthood will likely escape prosecution because Sebelius’s health department and her attorney general’s office separately destroyed key evidence.
Last week, as the decision in the ethics case neared, Kline filed a
recusal motion showing that Beier’s 2008 opinion was “flagrantly
dishonest in its presentation of facts.” After reading Kline’s motion,
four other justices decided that they too had previously complained
about Kline’s behavior and recused themselves, as did Beier.
In
doing so, the justices gave Beier cover. A public airing of the
Beier-led assault on Kline would have seriously damaged the court’s
reputation and Sebelius’s. Planned Parenthood stood to lose over $300
million in federal funding if CHPPKM had been successfully prosecuted.
Sebelius protected Planned Parenthood’s interest in Kansas and now
oversees its funding as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The ladder goes up, Kathleen, but the circles go down.
by Jenn Giroux
Phill Kline's legal marathon to clear his good name and save his law license
On May 15, 2012 the legal team of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline filed a motion in the Kansas Supreme Court seeking the recusal of two justices who would otherwise sit in review of Kline's appeal of an ethics panels' recommendation that his law license be indefinitely suspended after he prevailed in successfully filing criminal charges against Planned Parenthood. The motion seeks to recuse both Justice Carol Beier for her bias and deception and Justice Lawton Nuss, who, himself, was the subject of an ethics complaint brought by Kline when he was Attorney General. The legal brief is nothing short of a white hot legal bombshell. The majority of the brief focuses on Justice Beier. The heavily footnoted motion exposes for anyone who reads it, Justice Beier's pattern of dishonest opinion writing, her bias against Kline, and her aggressive activism from the bench to protect the abortion industry from legitimate legal prosecution. The motion also reveals Beier's tactics to undercut and defeat legitimate enforcement of Kansas laws designed to protect children from sexual abuse.
As prosecutor of Johnson County, Kansas, Kline filed 107 criminal charges against Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri in October, 2007. While civil suits have been filed against Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers in the past, Phill Kline's investigation was the first and only criminal case pursued against the abortion giant by a prosecutor in our nation's history. While in office, Kline was personally attacked and publicly maligned by the Kansas Supreme Court (and their friends in the media) for his willingness to investigate child rape and illegal abortions that were being performed by Planned Parenthood and late term abortionist George Tiller. Every single judge that reviewed Kline's evidence found probable cause that crimes had been committed. The detailed recusal motion reveals the deception of Justice Carol Beier, a lifetime appointee to the Kansas Supreme Court by then-Governor Kathleen Sebelius. Beier prevented Kline's prosecution of Planned Parenthood from ever reaching trial, and her not-so-subtle dishonesty came to light when she crafted a remedy in one case that required Kline to hand over all of his evidence to his successor, former Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison, who made clear his intention of returning the evidence to Planned Parenthood. You read that right: while Planned Parenthood was fighting to derail Kline's investigations of abortion-related crimes, Justice Beier fashioned a factually dishonest opinion that required Kline to turn over the evidence gathered during his investigation to the target of the investigation.
Additionally, Mr. Kline's appeal brief dismantles the flawed reasoning of the Disciplinary Panel which conducted a kangaroo court-like hearing and has now recommended his suspension. The outcome was all too predictable despite the fact that there are no facts to support their findings and recommendations.
It is important to keep the following facts in mind:
1. While Kline has been constantly maligned with accusations that he was violating patient privacy, not a single patient name was ever revealed by him or his staff in two prosecutorial offices covering nearly six years of effort.
2. The evidence clearly shows hundreds of abortions on children. Under state and federal law these pregnancies are a result of child abuse/rape. Of over 400 abortions on children, only 16 were reported as potential abuse. To date, no one but Kline has seriously followed up on that evidence or these abused children.
3. Justice Carole Beier is a Sebelius appointee and an avid supporter of abortion. She formerly worked for the National Women's Law Center which represented interests supporting abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. This presents a clear bias and conflict for her in this case.
4. None of the allegations against Phill Kline relate to the investigation that he initiated against the Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. They are created accusations which are completely false.
5. The evidence against Planned Parenthood has always been, and continues to be, strong and verifiable.
6. Every judge who has reviewed the evidence has found probable cause to believe that Planned Parenthood committed crimes.
7. Justice Beier, as revealed in the recusal motion, has written approvingly of using the media as a "tool" to shape public perception in order to bring about "legal reform" in support of "third-wave feminism." And that is exactly what she achieved with her anti-Kline opinions — turning Kline into a reviled figure in Kansas based in large part on non-existent evidence and lies about the actual evidence.
8. Kline consistently prevailed in moving the case forward while he was in office because the evidence was so strong. However, he lost in the public perception game because of Beier's deceptions and the deliberate media confusion created in Kansas, a state whose mainstream media feeds off the lies of one another. At the height of Kline's investigation the main newspaper, The Kansas City Star, ran a cartoon of Kline sitting on the bench next to a little girl with his hand up her dress. The script under the photo mocked the investigation of child rape with the theme: "he'll violate anyone's privacy to get what he wants." That same paper was awarded the "Maggie Award" by Planned Parenthood (in honor of founder, Margaret Sanger) for their editorial efforts to unseat Phill Kline.
Phill Kline lost his bid for re-election in 2008. It was a tragic turn of events when then Senator, now Governor of Kansas Sam Brownback betrayed the pro-life movement and longtime friend, Phill Kline, by endorsing RINO Steve Howe, who now serves as prosecutor over the remaining criminal case against Planned Parenthood. Unfortunately, Howe has chosen to drop the felony charges which could have led to the de-funding of Planned Parenthood nationwide. Many in the pro-life community (inside Kansas and across the country) have believed for some time that Howe lacks the will and the desire to aggressively prosecute the case against Planned Parenthood. Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of this is the fact that throughout Kline's ordeal of fighting unjust charges from political enemies, (i.e. friends of the abortion industry trying to remove Kline's law license), there has been only silence from Governor Brownback's office. He sat in the Governor's office just blocks away from where Phill Kline was put on trial by Beier's political hacks. It calls to mind the biblical verse: "I do not know the man" (Mathew 26: 72). This is no surprise coming from the same man who betrayed the entire country by refusing to invoke a long standing Senate tradition which allowed one Senator of a nominee's home state to pull the plug on their nomination. This would have stopped the appointment of Kathleen Sebelius as Obama's HHS Secretary. Brownback, in both scenarios, could have changed the course of events by simply stepping forward for the truth. He chose political self-preservation instead.
Many may ask: "Why are they still after Kline?"
The answer is simple. Planned Parenthood wants to make an example of Phill Kline to send this message to all prosecutors nationwide: if you pursue criminal investigations against the abortion industry, you will suffer....you will be sued, you will be unjustifiably charged with trumped-up ethical accusations, you will be sued again and again, you will be lied about in the media, you will be betrayed by political friends in high places, your ability to support your family will be targeted, and of course, you will be politically assassinated. The one thing they have continually underestimated is Kline's tenacity and willingness to stand up for the truth and the law in order to protect the legal rights of abused children and the unborn. The power of that truth can be found in the legal brief filed this week. This case against Phill Kline has far reaching effects if Justice Beier and her other abortion-minded friends on the bench succeed. Few people in my lifetime have endured what Phill Kline and his family have been put through. Kline's silent strength shines through in all of the suffering. It has been both inspiring and painful to watch. And it is a story that must be told. Truly they are a living example of this verse: "Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven." (Mathew 5: 3-12)
by Allen Williams
Kansas has a governing problem. The rule of law has transcended into the 'rule of money' and is a strong testimony to the deep seated corruption nurtured in this state by planned parenthood. The planned parenthood litany of corruption can be found here. They helped elect some of the most corrupt successors to public office from Paul Morrison to Kathleen Sebelius. The 14 member committee for picking judges made up of 7 lawyers and 7 members appointed by the governor ensures the 'status quo' is maintained in the judiciary.
The Kansas Supreme court ranks right up there with
the truly nefarious gulags of the past. Kangaroo court doesn't begin to
do justice to this pack of jackals. In fact, you were likely to get a
fairer trial in Nazi germany or under Stalin than from these misfits.
It was justice Lawton Nuss who dictated to the worthless Kansas Legislature precisely how much money should be voted for education in deference to
the teacher's union in the Montoy decision. It was justice Carol Beir's antagonism
towards anything threatening abortion that led to Kline's ethics trial
despite having been exonerated twice before by the ethics committee.
It was the Kansas Supreme Court who gagged sitting judge Richard Anderson and
prevented him from testifying that planned parenthood abortion records
had been forged. It was the Kansas Supreme Court who allowed then
attorney general Paul Morrison to join planned parenthood's suit against
Kline to get the evidence back. However, Morrison got caught with his
'trousers around his ankles' and had to resign in a sex scandal, so it
fell to Steve Six, appointed by governor Kathleen Sebelius, to destroy
the fraudulent records resulting in 23 felonies dismissed by the district court.
Attorney General Phill Kline was punished by the state supreme court for daring to do the job he was elected to do. The Secret Proceedings of The Supreme Court provides background on the court's constitutional abuses. Here are key allegations excerpted from hKline's motion for recusal:
*Ordered
that discovery be obtained from Mr. Kline and his staff in a manner
that served well the shared goals of Morrison and Planned
Parenthood,
but was detrimental to Mr. Kline’s investigation into the crimes of
Planned Parenthood, including Planned Parenthood’s failure to report child sexual molestation;
*
Entertained an unprecedented and merit less mandamus action filed by
attorneys for the target of a criminal investigation (Planned
Parenthood) seeking to have the evidence of serious crimes taken from
the prosecuting attorney (Mr. Kline) and given back to the criminal
target;
* Ordered that the entire CHPP v. Kline case be conducted under seal, including a secret trial hidden from public scrutiny in which the criminal target was able to utilize extraordinary discovery rights outside the parameters of the pending criminal case;
* Continued the tactic of publicly threatening Mr. Kline with ethical charges or contempt citations in a most injudicious way;
Endless
opinions, half truths and scathing editorials from the Wichita Eagle to
Sun Publications to the Kansas City Star reviled Phill Kline
continuously during his tenure as both state attorney general and then
as Johnson County prosecutor (replacing Paul Morrison). It was no
concern to the rat pack of journalism that Kline had evidence of coerced
sex among underage girls. The bastions of liberalism were under
assault and must be protected no matter what the cost or who suffers.
Justice isn't blind..it's dead in Kansas.