The transformation of America

Race baiting Democrats

Last week the leftwing media was writing about the homophobic, racist, sexist Americans--even Clinton called the military that--because the polls showed 49 to 49 for the candidates. This week, not a peep about how awful Americans are. The fact that minorities voted overwhelmingly for Obama doesn't make THEM race based voters. But 10 million Americans who voted for Obama in 2008 didn't vote for him in 2012. They didn't vote for Romney either, I guess they stayed home, but did they lose faith in Obama's race or his policies?

Americans, especially minorities and the 18-29 white voters,  showed in this election that they want European style socialism, where no one can work if not a member of the union, and the takers outnumber the workers.  Good luck sustaining that model.

Women want to depend on Uncle Sam--relationships are too hard

“Single women, who went 67 percent to Obama this week, have been sold a bill of goods by the Left since the 90s. Women have been told that empowerment comes from sex, and that we have a “right” to things like birth control. Television models the Carrie Bradshaw lifestyle of shoes and parties and sex without consequence. Meanwhile, America wonders why women walking around with iPhones and Kate Spade bags at Ivy League colleges are demanding that we pay for birth control they could acquire at WalMart for $4 a month.”

http://townhall.com/columnists/tabithahale/2012/11/09/dc_cannot_save_america_hollywood_can

Do numbers matter?

In the 16th through the 19th centuries Arab Muslims captured and sold black Africans to European slavers who then shipped them to the “new world” for resale in the various colonies of Spain, Portugal, France and England.

"By the end of the seventeenth century, slavery and the products of slave labor comprised the single largest economic enterprise on earth. Over the course of more than two hundred years, European carriers -- British, Spanish, French, and Portuguese -- had shipped more than 2 million Africans across the Atlantic in chains. But that was just the beginning. Spurred by an explod­ing European demand for sugar, traffic in slaves surged, and in the eighteenth century alone more than 6 million Africans were taken from their homeland to plantations in Brazil, the Caribbean, and, to a much smaller extent, British North America. ... Sons of Providence by Charles Rappleye

Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, estimates 54,559,615 abortions since Roe v. Wade in 1973, and about 40% of those are black. Life Site News

Abortion is legal and approved by the state and federal governments of the United States, and has been a plank in the Democrat party political platform for decades.  Legal abortion  has killed more blacks than four centuries of the Atlantic slave trade.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards, whose organization invested $15 million in the election, was overjoyed by the results of Tuesday’s election of a pro-abortion president, as was NARAL President Nancy Keenan.

The level playing field

Early in the morning (dawn usually) I'm on the road to a coffee shop within a mile or two of my home. This morning at the first stop light I was noticing all the service people out there long before me, delivering, stocking, cleaning, preparing, etc. and wondering about those households sleeping in receiving about $60,000 in government benefits who are NOT working. How many of these people taking care of our basic needs for food, goods and services will ever make $60,000, and why do Democrats say it's never enough? Tell me again, Mr. President, about that playing field you want to level.

                         

It fits, but just barely

Our son has bought a restored 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 convertible.  He brought it by today to show me. What a boat!  You forget what a door slam in a 40 year old car sounds like. He says he has 2” clearance in his garage to close the door. He will keep his other 2 cars; one he drives to work, and the other, a BMW, is driven only occasionally.  The new one gets 8 miles/gallon and he’s already run out of gas once because he misjudged how far he could go on $10.

How to be a guest at any blog—but especially mine. Thursday Thirteen November 8

                    

1.  Don’t attack your host. Think of your visit as standing in the hall or on the porch and you’re passing out political literature you want her to read.  Do you start out by accusing the owner of hatred and vitriol because she disagrees with you? 

2.  If you disagree with an idea or a citation, please supply the information.  I’m smart and I cite my sources of those writers who are smarter, but I’m not a mind reader about what you call “hate.’

3.  If you’ve got more than a paragraph, please start your own blog.  It’s not difficult and many sites are free. Or hit publish and make a second comment.  Looks better on my site meter.

4.  You can skip the name calling--homophobic, racist, sexist, etc.  That dog won’t hunt here.  Plus your mother taught you better.

5.  Please pay attention to quote marks and citations.  I’ve been attacked as homophobic for quoting gay bloggers and journalists! 

6.  Just because your president is black, doesn’t mean his policies are good for black people, minorities, churches, or the economy. If what he touches becomes untouchable for bloggers because of his race, how will you ever know what he’s doing?  The media won’t tell you.

7.  If you don’t like the cartoons or graphics, you should see the ones I’ve rejected as disrespectful or nasty.

8.  I’ve been blogging for nine years.  And you?

9.  I’m a one issue (pro-life) voter, writer, woman.  Start to finish, Genesis to Revelation, womb to tomb.  Yes, I think rape is awful, but it’s not worse than murdering the innocent child that results from the violent act. Incest is icky, but in my genealogy I’m my own 6th cousin, so who do you want to eliminate?

10. I’m an evangelical Christian (Lutheran) who loves many of the documents of the Reformation and the early church before it split up. I perfectly understand your main line Christian views because I was one (UCC, Church of the Brethren), and I know the cafeteria Catholic outlook well from all my Catholic friends who use contraception.  How well do you know the documents of evangelicalism?

11.  Not only do I blog, but I’m on Facebook, and several e-mail discussion groups. I’m also a published author.  And what have you researched and published?  You can cite it here and get some free publicity. I’ll not call you names.

12. How recently did you read the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence or the Northwest Ordinance? I do it about once a year, but I’m also old enough to know the Democrats invented Jim Crow and LBJ fought civil rights all the way until he figured out he could capture the loyalty of blacks for 200 years if he switched sides.

13. FDR locked up about a million Americans, German, Italian and Japanese, in 1942.  I guess he thought they were disloyal or dangerous.  And you?  Do you read much about the heroes of American history? Write a blog—I’ll come and visit and not call you names.

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No Good Sam law for architects in New York

200 responses were received from architects willing to survey affected neighborhoods damaged by the super storm Sandy. “Their job would be to help the city evaluate uninhabited buildings, a kind of architectural triage: green stickers are placed on buildings that can be inhabited immediately, yellow on buildings that can be inhabited after remediation, and red on buildings that cannot be made safe.” Lance Jay Brown, a professor of architecture at the City University of New York (CUNY) refers to it as “second-responder work.”

But. . . there is no good sam law in New York for architects.

“According to Brown and others, architects are prevented from performing damage assessment—as volunteers—by the absence of a law to protect them from future liability. About half the states have “good Samaritan” laws that cover architects, allowing them to do volunteer work in emergencies without fear of lawsuits. But New York is without such protection. “Legislation exists, but it just hasn’t been passed,” says Brown, who has been involved in the fight for a “good sam” law since 2004, as has the state AIA office in Albany. “We lobby for it constantly, but lawyers lobby against it,” Azaroff explains, adding, “As a Brooklyn architect, I should be able to walk across the street and help a neighbor. This is something that would promote a better society.”

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/2012/11/121108-Architects-Respond-to-a-Call-for-Post-Sandy-Aid.asp

Start talking.

The legacy?

"Barack Obama wasted no time getting busy destroying American sovereignty after defeating Mitt Romney Tuesday night and winning a 2nd term. Mere hours after the deciding votes were cast, the administration got to work supporting the U.N. and their effort to install a global gun restriction treaty." Glenn Beck

Obama was very cagey about announcing his agenda for the next 4 years. The first move doesn't make me feel good about his intentions. Those of you hoping he'd go "moderate" in order to create a "legacy" don't seem to understand this man. He's a statist and globalist.

Should Democrats set the Republican agenda

Juan Williams (Fox News) wants Republicans to reach out to single women and blacks. With what? Democrats give them free contraception and bill boards advertising abortions. What else would appeal? They don't care much about jobs, as they demonstrated Tuesday.

People of little or no faith more likely to vote for Obama

Religious/faith people voted for Romney if they were white evangelicals, but not enough voted, period. It's one of the flaws of being a conservative. Let someone else do it. Or, God will take care of it. Black Christians overwhelmingly voted for Obama, even with all his failures and inattention to them these last 4 years.  (Unemployment in October was 14.3% for blacks.)  "Other" and "unaffiliated" voted overwhelmingly for Obama.

And now the finger waggers are saying the Republicans (remember the ones who didn't boo God?) are too religious. I'd say the weren't religious enough if they didn't vote their values. Cafeteria Catholics went for Obama.

Pew Forum on Religion

How are they getting around Obamacare?

“Americans are already finding ways around Obamacare. The M.D. VIP program offers individuals unfettered access to a network of doctors with limited numbers of patients for around $1500/year. That is certainly less than the cost of Obamacare. I believe we will see a bifurcated healthcare system that still offers choice, because the best doctors prefer to work in programs like M.D. VIP. And the states that refuse to implement the Obamacare Medicaid provisions will be where the businesses go. The intransigent states like California, Illinois, and New York will continue to bleed companies and middle-class voters, leaving only the very rich and people who are addicted to entitlements. Ultimately, the law will be chipped away or ignored because it is poorly written.”  Mark Macina

Oh, and good luck finding a doctor if you’re about to sign up for Medicare.  Doctors are choosing to retire rather than get stuck with the abominable electronic record system required especially if they have small offices. This was just a boon to IT lobbyists, since no one can even guess if it will improve care, and it certainly won’t lower costs.  Others just won’t take Medicare—payment reimbursement is too low.

Note to trolls:  please pay attention to quotation marks. That means it is someone else’s work.

Tell me again about the Nobel Peace Prize

“Obama has tripled the presence of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, escalated the nightmare of drone bombings in Pakistan, and started a war with Libya that his administration claimed even Congress had no power to stop. Despite his occasional lip service to free markets, peace, and the rule of law, Obama has pushed for the radical expansion of state power in virtually every area he could. “ Anthony Gregory

And he’s running a pipeline of weapons from Libya to Syria.  Some peace prize he is.  I wonder if they’ll ever do that again—award a prize on the basis of nothing.  Zip. Nada. Zilch.

            

Tips for Republicans from liberals

Juan Williams (Fox News) wants Republicans to reach out to single women and blacks. With what? Democrats give them free contraception and bill boards advertising abortions. What else would appeal? They don't care much about jobs, as they demonstrated Tuesday.

Is there a single give-away or law remake that Republicans could do that Obama wouldn’t up the ante the next day?

If Republicans (registered) had shown up to vote, they could have beaten Obama.  There are more people who won’t vote for a Mormon than who won’t vote for a black.  If the dead Democrats stayed home, that might have helped too. 

Obama needs more photo ops with Sandy victims—it will warm their hearts

Bipartisanship is what got us to the cliff

“With the threat of the fiscal cliff hanging over the economy and American jobs, House majority speaker Boehner calls for bipartisan agreement to tackle the impending danger.”  U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Why does Obama continue to blame Bush? Because (fill in the blank)

Ratios of deficit to GDP for the past five presidents:

Ronald Reagan
1981-88 4.2 %
1982-89 4.2
Average 4.2

George H. W. Bush
1989-92 4.0
1990-93 4.3
Average 4.2

Bill Clinton
1993-2000 0.8
1994-2001 0.1
Average 0.5

George W. Bush 

2001-08 2.0
2002-09 3.4
Average 2.7

Barack Obama
2009-12* 9.1
2010-12 8.7
Average 8.9
*fiscal 2012 ends Sept. 30, 2012, so this figure is estimated

Forbes

Hollywood Casino, Columbus, Ohio

Our new casino in Columbus opened a month ago and has sucked about $18.3 million in profits from local gamblers. Table: $28,472,059; Slot:$136,648,985. I guess voters aren't the only ones attracted to "free stuff," but it's wildly expensive to get it this way. Gamblers' Anonymous meetings must be packed.

http://casinocontrol.ohio.gov/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ajrbvarBPiA%3d&tabid=101

Glenn Beck probably won’t expand his business

Glenn Beck probably won't be hiring, he said last night. So you hate Glenn Beck even if you've never heard him or watched his TV show or listened to his radio show or read his books or worn his clothes? But he is a small businessman--a publisher and owner of a TV production company and a clothing business, plus some other stuff. Anyway, he'd like to expand and hire more people. In the Obameconomy he can't, plus he'll probably be fined because he provides his employees better benefits than Obama thinks is right and fair (although probably not as good as federal employees get).

Even if you don't like Beck, this is the sort of shrinking economy you voted for on Tuesday, which means he'll have to transfer more of your money to support all those government programs—you know, the free stuff.

http://www.theblaze.com/tv/

Good for Chris Matthews

He manned up and admitted he was stupid and wrong on election night when he said he was glad for the storm Sandy because it helped Obama win. He'll keep his job, of course, but if Republicans apologize for being stupid, they lose their jobs. I recall years ago Rush Limbaugh made a comment about a black football player that was true, but he was removed as a Monday night football commentator. Matthews could have made his apology to his fans stronger by not explaining twice how tired he was and caught up in political numbers.

Truthfully, I don't think he said HE was stupid and wrong, but that his comment was. Did Senator Akin try that?

Advice on how to be good Republicans who can win

I've been clicking through most of the advice and do-overs about how Republicans could do it differently. Number one is become like Democrats and grow the government, and number two is become Libertarians and take a chance that everyone is virtuous. Odd isn't it. The party of Abraham Lincoln can only survive if it stands for nothing that has a moral base--it's all about economics. A Fox commentator last night said Republicans could survive if they gave up the pro-life and pro-marriage positions (he might as well have added and "Boo God.")

Obama got elected in 2008 with positive happy talk, but it sunk Romney; he was elected 4 years ago by supporting DOMA and Don't ask don't tell and snuggling with Rick Warren, but that will get a Republican labeled homophobic today; he didn't lie about abortion--openly was supportive of killing born alive aborted babies, but even hinting that a baby conceived in rape is not the enemy can sink a career. We live in strange times.

I was pro-life and pro-marriage when I first voted in 1960. So were millions of other Democrats. In those days they also believed, really believed, in protecting the weakest and least capable among us. Now it's constant yammering about free stuff and helping the middle class with more government programs. Even churches have been lulled into not preaching the gospel if they take money for social programs.  When Democrats started buying votes with the War on Poverty and playing step-daddy to single moms (which I supported) they started us on a 16 trillion dollar failure that killed marriage and responsibility driving millions of children to the poor house.

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/03/17/morning-bell-how-many-trillions-must-we-waste-on-the-war-on-poverty/

Entrenched system that hurts the poor

In Illinois you have one giant city, Chicago, Democrat controlled for years, and an expert at trapping people with patronage. We’re headed that way in Ohio, with a number of good-sized, major cities, all Democrat controlled; Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati are the biggies, then Dayton, Toledo, Akron/Canton and Youngstown. At one time these were all job producers. Now they are tax traps and sink holes for federal block grants, ringed by wealthy suburbs. I don’t know about the other cities, but in Columbus, The Ohio State University just keeps gobbling up the land and areas of deteriorating housing stock, tearing down residences, displacing the low income, and then calling it progress when the yuppies move in and the poor move out where there is no transportation for jobs. Really, liberals (there are very few academics who are not liberals)  have invented a crazy system of feeding off the less fortunate, poorly educated, mentally ill, and addicted. Many are pushed out of the neighborhoods where they have friends, family and social resources into surrounding areas, the rest just become homeless and then more grants become available to take care of them and more PhDs are written at OSU on the social problems. All the while, conservatives are blamed for a crazy system that keeps the academics, government bureaucrats and non-profits in cushy, well-paid jobs!

The joke is on the Democrats. The rest of us know what’s coming. Same ol’, same ol’.

Why does Obama want to put this organization out of business?

Under the HHS Mandate this agency will pay a $100/day fine per employee which will of course, close it down.  I believe this is Obama’s intention.  That will be 2.5 million more people beholden to the government.

OSF HealthCare, owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, Peoria, Illinois, includes OSF Healthcare System consisting of eight acute care facilities, two long-term care facilities, and two colleges of nursing. It also has a primary care physician network consisting of over 600 primary care, specialist physicians, and advanced practice providers.

OSF HealthCare owns OSF Saint Francis, Inc., comprised of health care-related businesses, and OSF Healthcare Foundation, the philanthropic arm of OSF Healthcare System and OSF Home Care Services.

OSF HealthCare is a multi-state corporation, operating facilities in Illinois and Michigan, providing state-of-the-art, compassionate care to more than 2.5 million people in the communities we serve.

Attackers get personal

When attackers come to my blog, they don’t get published.  They never have a single fact to contradict what I say, but they have lots of names for me.  They know nothing about Obamacare, or shutting down the coal industry in Ohio, or killing born alive infants who were supposed to die during an abortion, or the gay agenda of Obama’s education appointees, or how much Michelle spends on her vacations, or who died in Benghazi after how many hours of pleading for help.  But they can attack me and call me a hater.  Wonder why they don’t call him a hater?

It doesn’t take even that much

My dad and mother cancelled each others votes for 65 years.  He said she got a ten cent raise under President Roosevelt in the 1930s and he had her for a lifetime.

Are you allowed to work, or do you have to join a union?

How a failed president won a second term with fewer votes than in 2008

1-Promise Latinos that the children of Illegal Immigrants would be able to stay in the U.S.

2-Convince 20-40-year old women that reproductive rights were on the ballot.

3-Promise free birth control to 20-40 year old women on budgets.

4-Promise the fantasy of free healthcare.

5-Collaborate with the heads of the major media to block negative stories about Barack Obama OFF the national stage.

See how easy it was?  However, social media was the key says The Kitchen Cabinet.  “The landscape of electioneering has now changed forever. This massive defeat for Republicans is no reflection upon Mitt Romney’s talents. It is a reflection on the age of our Party. We were beaten by a younger and technologically more current crowd. From this point forward, no one has to WIN an election by turning out passionate voters.

Just engineer it.”

http://thekitchencabinet.us/the-painful-truth-about-a-massive-loss/

Takers live in the blue areas

Along with the academics, the government workers, and employees of non-profits.  And they vote Democratic.  They vote for free stuff like contraceptives.  Blue cities like Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, etc. have a vested interest in keep their low income folks close by so they can vote Democrat.

By the world’s standards, there are no poor people in America.

We believed Obama was wrong, now what can we do asks Bill Whittle? The health of the country is about 50-50 he says.  Without a virtuous people, our system doesn't work. The premise of limited government is based on the idea of virtue, so that’s 150 million people for starters.  Yes, Obama bought votes with "free stuff," but it's the people who are the takers. Slightly less than half of us understand the problem.  Liberals have high IQs and a lot of education, but they don't see it.  And they bus the poor and less educated to the polls to keep their perks.  They don't know how to recognize evil or face it. We've also been protected from danger, we're not used to sacrifice. Tough times is the wrong flavor in your latte.  By the world's standards, there are no poor Americans. We've done that through the virtuous among us--the government has been raiding that wealth for 50 years.  The bank is empty.

Virtue has to be taught, we aren’t born that way.  It’s not a natural state. Pop-culture is a wasteland of virtue.  It is horrifying and scary for the people who have influence over our culture—because they don’t have any virtue.  Thoughts from Bill Whittle.

Freestuff vs. Freedom

Or Democrats vs. Republicans.   A decade ago I couldn't have imagined women would be so callous, cold and culpable. Voting for sugar daddy pimping candidates after they put up such a battle in the 1970s for good jobs, pay, and the rights that men had enjoyed for years.  Now a woman raising 2 kids alone can qualify for government benefits equaling almost $60,000, so why have a career?  Why not just stay on the old plantation and do what the massa wants?  What a bunch of whiny gimmees they raised.  In 2012 it's free contraceptives; by 2016 it will be free abortions; and eventually they'll vote for forced abortions and therapeutic suicides for the parents who raised this sorry lot. They're already doing that for the mentally challenged and elderly, so I wonder who will be setting the IQ score and age category by 2020?

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nevada-judge-questioned-by-state-supreme-court-presses-forward-with-forced/

The leftist cliff looms

Rosa Parks first entered the front of the bus about 11 years before the famous incident we hear about in 1955, but the public wasn't ready. (Remember Jim Crow was created by Democrats and they used it to intimidate and terrorize blacks.) Conservatives are refusing to sit in the back of the bus which the leftists are driving off the cliff, so we have some work to do to get more people on board with us and stop them.  Considering the Democrats’ hard left turn these last four years, I think the Republicans will have to swerve further right to counteract them.  It doesn’t make much sense to occupy the middle seats the Democrats have vacated, does it?  We’ve seen where that goes.  The two parties as we’ve known them in the 1980s and 1990s seem to be gone anyway.

Biden is Obama’s insurance

that there won’t be an investigation into Obama’s failures during the seven hours of the Benghazi attack and the days and weeks of warnings that came before and the cover-up that came after.

A hard left turn

It's really a puzzle to me that the immigrant vote goes to the candidate who is most likely to destroy the country that gave them refuge. And it's not because they are the "takers," either, because the immigrants I know are extremely hard workers, and seem to find work when our native born PHDs can't.  Did they not learn their lesson at home before they got here?

How it works

Coverings and cover-ups

I don't mind if religious groups require women to cover their heads--like the Amish, Mennonites, and Catholic nuns in traditional habits.  In the event I’m in my home church to attend Communion, I’ll put on a prayer covering.  It’s completely optional, and these days just a tie to the past when it showed God’s order for people who were weak.

But the government requiring it? Would you support Obama having a czarina for head covering and prayer veiling? He supports fundamentalist Muslim groups in the civil wars in the Middle East which are repressive towards women against secular Muslim governments which are rather casual about women's freedoms. Part of the cover-up in Benghazi is a weapons pipeline to Syria.

Mismanagement, lies, and cover-ups. Summary of Obama’s term.

Everyone agrees Obama came into office with decisions and policies not his. What president doesn't? But by going the socialized medicine, take-over-huge-chunks of the economy route, he made things worse by throwing the economy into a tail spin every time it looked like recovery was at hand. Then he wouldn't even follow the advice of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform he created on how to solve the mess. Now he wants more time to make things even worse with more private decisions. And some of you are willingly going along!

Benghazi isn't the only cover-up which will be revealed after the election. With the help of his friends in media, Obama is quiet about the federal agencies which are sitting on a pile of major health, environmental, and financial regulations that lobbyists, congressional staffers, and former administration officials say are being held back to avoid providing ammunition to Mitt Romney and other Republican critics. They should further set back the economy.

“What’s past is prologue. We know what we will get from a second Obama term because we’ve all endured his first term. We know how well he kept his 2008 campaign promises. Do we really believe he’ll keep his 2012 promises?”  Sarah Palin

Catholics have an advantage . . .

Roman Catholics have three sources of revealed truth.  They not only have God’s written word, the Holy Bible, but they have tradition and the Magisterium.  Apparently, many Catholics are not following all three.

           

Excuses. Blame. Vindictiveness

Excuses.  If Obama loses, it will be racism—I can hear it now. The Bradley effect. (People lie about who they will vote for rather than be seen as racist.) Here's an idea--for liberals. Let's judge Obama on his merits, his character, his beliefs, his policies, his associates, his accomplishments, his appointments. You know, an MLK moment. Just the same as other politicians. Let's treat him like a man, not a boy, not a victim. I'm sick of being called a racist because of Obama's failures.

A tiny turnout in tiny Rushville

“Last night Joe Biden held a rally at Rushville Middle School. Only 800 people showed up.

But outside was a different story. Local farmers organized a flash tractor and crane protest across the street from the middle school. It took them only 24 hours to organize the counter rally.

HUNDREDS of Romney supporters turned out!”

http://www.lancastereaglegazette.com/article/20121105/NEWS01/311040018/Romney-supporters-gather-tractors-counter-Biden-rally?nclick_check=1

Justice Robert Duncan—Monday Memories

Back in the late 60s and early 70s, we belonged to an interracial couples group called Know Each Other (KEO).  It was modeled on the First Community Church Couples Circles plan, but instead of church membership it consisted of 5 white couples and 5 black couples. The membership was quite fluid with divorces, career changes and relocations and people moving on to other activities, but I think we stayed together about 5-7 years. We had some interesting programs and great parties. Interestingly, the black couples were higher up the professional and income ladder than the white couples. Somewhere I probably have a list of names in an old Christmas card book.

Each host planned our meetings and discussions, and one of our members was a judge (don’t remember the title), but he knew Robert Duncan, and invited him to our group to talk.  It must have been before he became the first black on Ohio’s Supreme Court, but maybe not, since that happened in early 1969. I know our group was meeting in 1968.

I wish I could remember more, but it’s been over 40 years.  I only remember my impression—kind, intelligent and destined for great things. It was a good first impression.

                                     

The Ohio State University is grieving the loss of notable alumnus, former Board of Trustees member, distinguished jurist in residence and longtime friend Robert Morton Duncan, who died today at the age of 85.

Duncan was a two-time graduate of The Ohio State University, having earned a B.S. in 1948 and a J.D. in 1952. His service to the university was exemplary. He was a member of the Board of Trustees for The Ohio State University from 1998 to 2007, serving as board chair from 2006 – 2007. In addition to serving as secretary of the Board of Trustees, and as vice president and general counsel for the university, he was a member of the executive committee of the Presidents Club and chairman of the University Hospital Board.

“We are deeply saddened by Judge Duncan’s passing,” said Robert H. Schottenstein, chair of The Ohio State University Board of Trustees. “His service to the university has been exemplary. Judge Duncan was the personification of principle, compassion and wisdom.”

Duncan broke racial barriers when he became the first black judge elected in Franklin County in 1966 and to the Ohio Supreme Court in 1969. He served on the Ohio Supreme Court until 1971, when he became the first black member of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals. President Richard Nixon appointed Duncan to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in 1974, becoming the first black judge appointed to the federal bench in Ohio. It was in this position that Duncan wrote the landmark order ending segregation in the Columbus Public Schools. His fairness, leadership and accessibility to community groups helped ensure a smooth process of desegregation.

He served on the federal bench until 1985, when he joined Jones Day Reavis & Pogue. Other roles he played in his career included attorney examiner for the Ohio Bureau of Workmen’s Compensation, Columbus city prosecutor and chief counsel to the attorney general of Ohio.

I’m wearing my red t-shirt and RR logos today and tomorrow

              

                             

John Locke’s Common Place Book to the Bible

John Locke's many writings included a verse-by-verse commentary on Paul's Epistles. He also compiled a topical Bible, which he called a Common Place-Book to the Holy Bible, that listed the verses in the Bible, subject by subject. Then when anti-religious enlightenment thinkers attacked Christianity, Locke defended it in his book, The Reasonableness of Christianity as Delivered in the Scriptures. And then when he was attacked for defending Christianity in that first work, he responded with the work, A Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity. Still being attacked two years later, Locke wrote, A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity. Source.

For example from Common Place, chapter 18

How men come truly and spiritually to know the only true God . . . then the subject is further divided with page numbers

There are number libraries that have scanned copies for you to read on line. World Cat shows many editions.

“The charges that Locke was a deist and freethinker have been trumpeted for three centuries. Those false charges originated from his advocating major reforms within the Church of England. As I indicated, Locke proposed a separation of church from the Crown of England. Furthermore, he sought to extend religious toleration to Christians of other denominations. Hence, he was accused of deism and being irreligious by Anglican apologists who were offended by his criticism. “

Essay on Locke at the blog, Virtue, Liberty, and Independence.

Poverty provides jobs for the middle class

Taxpayers last year spent $1 trillion on welfare programs for households below the poverty line — enough to give each low-income household a check for $60,000, $746 billion on welfare in the 2011 fiscal year, and states paid out $254 billion in matching funds. But of course there is a huge bureaucracy that takes its cut off the top, so if poverty disappeared tomorrow, millions of government workers and a service industry in the private sector would be out of jobs and they would be poor, so it would start all over.

Speech given by Senator Goldwater, Feb. 1962

In our struggle against Communist domination what do we Americans really Champion?
What do we really believe?
What do we really stand for?

Is the rest of the world getting a true picture of our national character?

I don't think there is a single person here today who doubts that there is a serious misunderstanding throughout the world regarding the fundamental aims -- the fundamental philosophy -- of the American people.

Is it enough to tell the world that we can build a better lawn mower? Now a good, cheap lawn mower has its place. We can all agree on that.

It is enough to tell the world we can build a more efficient tractor? All of us know that more efficient tractors are important. We can all agree on that.

But is a cheaper lawn mower, or a more efficient tractor the symbol that expresses the essence of America?

Distinguished foreign observers, like Dr. Charles Malik of Lebanon, have said that all too often our American publicity men have represented the nation in the wrong light. They have too-often pictured us as a nation primarily interested in only material gain.

On the contrary the story of America and her accomplishments is the story of men with deep spiritual motivations -- men who sought freedom to pursue their own ideals and their own aims as the children of God. Some historians, blinded by materialistic considerations, have written about my own State of Arizona and the whole West as though this vast area was opened only as a result of men driven by a desire for gain.

Fascinated by stories of the gold rush, land hunger, and buffalo hunting, they ignore the real story -- the story of pioneers with the spiritual fibre to overcome impossible material obstacles to carve a civilization out of the wilderness. I think of the Mormons whose spiritual strength brought a whole desert into bloom.

The same sort of materialist vision which distorts the true meaning of the opening of the West, is presenting a picture of America to the world which interprets the ideals of America in purely economic terms.

We have seen a world-wide publicity campaign which offers a mail- order catalogue as the quintessence of the American Dream -- A sort of materialist substitute for the Bible. Somehow the idea has gotten abroad that the way to share the American ideal is to become bigger, fatter and more luxurious. People are beginning to believe that to be American is simply to have more food and more complicated gadgets.

It is no wonder that, presented with these claims, many people in the Moslem world or the Buddhist lands or even Europe ask themselves, "What, after all, is the difference between the communists and the Americans?

They both tell us that life is for material prosperity and for military superiority; and they use almost identical phrases."
I suggest we Americans have been our own worst apologists.
Are we really nothing better than materialists? Do we genuinely believe that the test of a nation's virtue and greatness is its Gross National Product or its modern military gadgets? Are wall-to-wall carpets and space capsules the be-all and end-all of American civilization?

Do we, in short, truly believe in anything beyond the material aims of the communists?

If not, why do we oppose the communists? If material progress is our only aim, why not join them?

It is true that we still are richer and stronger than the Soviets -- though their standard of living has increased somewhat, and their military power has increased greatly. Well suppose then, ten years from now, the communists achieve a standard of living higher than ours, and an army and an air force and a navy better than ours. (I do not expect them to; but suppose this for the sake of argument.)

Should we, in such circumstances, admit their superiority and yield to them? If prosperity and material power are the prime summits of human striving, it follows that we might just as well throw in our lot with the communists. In fact, there are so-called "liberals" in America today who have come to this conclusion. They say they would rather be Red than dead.
But I cannot agree that material prosperity and armed might are the indices of personal and national greatness. I do not believe that any mere "standard of living", in itself, is worth dying for. I deny that goodness and truth are determined by the magnitude and number of hydrogen bombs, I suggest that we Americans, and our Christian and Western' civilization, stand for truths nobler and more enduring than these material satisfactions.
I suggest that if you must choose, it is better to be poor and free than to be snug and a slave.

I suggest that if you must choose, it is better to live in peril, but with justice, than to live on a summit of material power, but unjustly.

I suggest that if you must choose, it is better to stand up as a suffering man than to lie down as a satisfied animal.
Now to compete in bragging with the communists is lost endeavor; at that game the most practiced liar always wins. And to adopt Communist standards for such a bragging-match is folly. To cite tables of figures about our low prices and our high wages converts no Communists, and impresses few neutrals, and does not convince even ourselves: indeed, this may rouse envy throughout the world, without creating friendship. To demonstrate that our Globemasters can fly in enough Gurkhas and guns to discourage the Katanga gendarmes and smash the Katanga hospitals is no proof, either to Africans or ourselves, that we have any cause worth fighting for. And I believe it is time for us to tell our allies, and our adversaries, and ourselves, just what we Americans really are ready to sacrifice for--and, if need be, to die for.

This nation does not live for the sake of butter, nor for the sake of guns. The United States of America, on the contrary, has for its moral object the high dignity of man; and for its political aim, ordered freedom--liberty under God and under the law—with', justice for all. I think it is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions. And surely it is not possible for man to enjoy true dignity without a model that is more than human and a hope that is more than earthly. Man is made for eternity; he does not perish like the flies of a summer; therefore he enjoys dignity. Every human being is a person, made in the image of God; therefore every man enjoys certain natural rights.

Are we ashamed nowadays to confess this?

Ought we to conceal our moral and cultural heritage, Jewish and Christian and classical, as something old-fangled and impractical and irrational? TO judge by the propaganda of certain gentlemen in our information-services, one would so assume. Muttering vaguely about the wall of separation between church and state--which idea they carry far beyond any possible constitutional interpretation--these publicists discard as so much rubbish the moral and theoretical foundation of the American cause. And having nothing else left, such propaganda -experts offer to the world a mess of pottage compounded of production statistics and firepower. And so do the Soviet propagandists.

In what way do we differ fundamentally from the Communists?

Cardinal Manning said once that all differences of opinion are theological at bottom. True when he said it, this statement has grown even truer in our century. The great gulf fixed between the American Republic and the Soviet Union is a theological Grand Canyon. The Communist says that man is a thing, who exists to have his belly filled; and who may be manipulated and altered and, if need be, liquidated for the sake of efficiency. Such a creature does not need freedom: he wants only creature-comforts. "Freedom?" Lenin mocked. "Freedom? What for? What for?"

But to the American who has faith in his national traditions and the wisdom of our ancestors, who believes that our civilization is not morally and intellectually bankrupt, man is a being quite different.

Man was made to know God, and enjoy Him forever. Man is not a thing, but an immortal essence. And freedom, ordered liberty, is man's birthright; for without true freedom, man could not choose between good and evil; he could not become fully human; he would remain, at best, childish. There exists a natural order for man, with natural rights. Worldly powers and dominations are not morally entitled to treat man as a pawn in a social Chess-game: the masters of the state have no right to deal with human beings as if they were animals--no right to manipulate and alter and liquidate human persons.

Here, I suggest, is the stone wall of demarcation between the Communists and Americans; we have hearts and consciences. If, by new inventions or slave labor or territorial conquests, the Soviets should grow richer and stronger than ourselves, and if we then should be asked, "Why not unite with them? Theirs are the kingdoms of the earth". If we are men, still we will stand firm. If it comes to the test, we ought to die rather than to submit to a collectivistic anthill, no matter how glistening, or filled with up-to-date comforts.

For the object of the Communists is to reduce human nature to the material elements alone. And the object of thinking Americans and their allies is to preserve and strengthen the spiritual elements of human nature. The material conception of man and the spiritual conception of man cannot be reconciled. For this reason I have said that only through victory will we secure ourselves. More than a century ago, Abraham Lincoln declared that this nation cannot endure half free and half slave. Today that solemn fact is true of the world.

Between Communists and men who believe in a transcendent order there can be no enduring compromise; for Communists will not tolerate religious belief, unless they find it so weakened and tamed that it seems harmless; and men who discern natural rights will never be able to live under Communism. This eternal hostility was expressed far better than / can put it by a brilliant and God-fearing American for whom I have great personal admiration, a man who lies buried here in the chapel at Notre Dame: Orestes Brownson. Only a few months after the Communist Manifesto was published, Brownson--who had been a radical in his youth--denounced as heresy the philosophy of Marx and the sociologist ideology in general.

Brownson saw at the outset that Marxism was a political substitute for religion, caricaturing Christian doctrine. And Brownson knew that the terrible power of this ideology could be resisted only by true religious understanding--and by willingness to sacrifice for the enduring things. With a gift almost prophetic, Orestes Brownson declared that the struggle of the future would be between Socialism and Christianity. In 1962, the fate of humankind is in the balance, and this contest seems to draw toward judgment.

The competition between the Communists and what we call the "Free World" is clearly not being decided by living-standards or even by the big battalions. The issue will be determined by power of conviction: the conviction of men who fear and love God, or the conviction of materialists who detest anything higher than themselves. And if our faith and our culture are to prevail, we must tale our stand forthrightly on certain moral truths and ancient ways.

First, we must stand for the real brotherhood of man, which is possible only under the fatherhood of God.

Second, we must stand for personal freedom, which in essence is the right and duty of moral choice.

Third, we must stand for the Judaeo Christian and classical principle of Justice: to each man the things that are his own by nature.

Fourth, we must stand for charity: the toleration, the mercy, and the giving which are the products of love.

Fifth, we must stand for the wisdom of our ancestors, sound authority and experience, what Edmund Burke called "the bank and capital of the ages."

Sixth, we must stand for variety; for diversity, which includes the right of men and nations to differ, and, as Chesterton put it, of “every potty little man to be his own potty little self.”

And finally, we must stand for honor and the dignity of man.
This brief catalog of mine does not exhaust the roster of our duties and our first principles; but it may suggest that there are irreconcilable differences between the Communists and ourselves. It is for this reason that we can speak only of victory, never of any fundamental compromise.

As you may have expected, I am commending to you a conservative position in this crisis of our fate--what I believe to be a healthy and imaginative conservatism. I am commending to you the courageous and responsible conservative principles for which Orestes Brownson spoke. I am asking you to think of liberty as Brownson described it, in his long essay on the origin and constitution of government:

"By freedom, regarded as the end of government," Brownson wrote, "we understand the ability of every man to discharge, without other let or hindrance than his own moral delinquency, his special functions as a human being. All men have the equal right to be men, and each man has the equal right to be the man his Maker designed him to be."

This is not the conservatism of suspicion, or of selfishness, or of smugness. Rather, it is the noble conservatism of Edmund Burke and of George Washington. It is founded upon belief in a God who has given us our nature, our rights, and our duties; upon belief in a freedom which is moral in origin, and which is intended for our full development as human persons, each man and woman after his bent. And this is a world apart from the dreary slave-equality of Marx and of Lenin.

The real line of division in the modern world is not between liberals on the one hand and totalitarians on the other. Instead, it is between all those on the one hand who believe in a transcendent order of things and an enduring human nature; and on the other hand all those who would treat man as a mere creature of appetite, self-created or chance-crested, to be dealt with as advanced social planners wish. It is between people who know themselves to be part of the great continuity and essence, and, on the other hand, people who live in the nightmare realm of an existence with no meaning but material appetites and power over bodies and minds.

What do we stand for? If we are true to our civilized heritage and to ourselves, we stand for order and freedom and justice, founded upon religious understanding. Our prosperous economy, our technological achievements, our leisure and pleasures, our military defenses--all these are by-products, at bottom, of religious belief and of knowing the dignity of man. If we fail to stand by these deep enduring principles, then the Communists will bury us--and we will deserve to be buried; NO, the first principles of our moral and social order cannot be reconciled or blended with those of Communism.

Communists deny the divine origin of man; for the Communist, there is no more logical reason why a man should be dignified than there is why a pig should be dignified.

If we are strong in our faith and correspondingly strong in our preparations, the Communists will not bury us. For the Communist respects just one thing: material power. And power of spirit is a greater force than the power of weapons. And the Communists will not press for a final showdown with men whose spiritual power renders then invulnerable.

For Communists, this life on earth is everything: death in a great war would mean the end of existence for them, for all time. In that sense, the Communists are at a disadvantage by the side of the religious man, who believes that death is no evil in itself: everything depends on how you die, for none of us live forever.

And if we are strong and resolute, demanding freedom from the Communists rather than yielding ground timidly before their bullying, we can triumph without any terrible devastation--without a final holocaust.

For the nature of things is on our side, I mean that the Communists are operating upon false principles: upon illusions concerning the nature of man and the nature of the good society. Sooner or later, anyone who lives by false premises betrays himself. Men and women are not the mere animals and puppets that Communists would have them be. Human nature reasserts itself, given a little time, under even the most merciless tyranny.
Behind the Iron Curtain, discontent will increase. If we Americans stand prepared and resolute, we can help the oppressed back toward a decent civil social order.

Within the core of the Communist structure--within Russia and China--the more energetic and talented and generous natures cannot be suppressed forever; and if we have prevented the commissars from establishing a world domination, those better natures in the rising generation ultimately will work their way to order and freedom and justice--given some help and encouragement--even in Moscow and Peiping. So the present question is not whether we want a devastating war, but rather whether we Americans have the intelligence and the fortitude to stand by ideas and institutions that were not born yesterday, Communism is a political religion, denies the providential order of existence; and so providence, sooner or later, will make an end of Communism, if you and I do our part.

Perhaps you are thinking, "What can I do?" There are many tasks that can be yours--and many sacrifices you must make, of time and money and comfort, if we are to win our ultimate victory over the powers that would dehumanize man, But the first thing to do--and this is the especial province of university students--is to grasp clearly and firmly the grand principles of the moral order and the social order.

Our conservative task of saving mankind from a collective degradation will not make you rich; probably it will not make you powerful; and possibly it may mean that you will live harder and less long than if you were content to be a slave or a coward. But this task has one high reward: the consciousness of being fully human, in the cause of truth and Justice and of man as God meant him to be.

You have the talent and the training for the duty that is yours. I am confident you will not fail to stand up for the things which make life worth living.

Text of a Speech by Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Arizona) to the University of Notre Dame Student Body, South Bend, Indiana. February 6, 1962 - 8:30 PM. Speech writer Russell Kirk.

Many newspapers endorsing Romney

A few people still read newspapers, and more and more are recommending a change. They probably want their advertisers to stay in business. Should have thought of that in 2008 because he told us who he was and what he believed and what he intended to do.

The New York Daily News endorses Mitt Romney and paints a very dreary picture of the Obama years. "The trend over the Obama years: Goodbye to middle- and high-income jobs in New York City; hello to positions that pay less than $45,000 a year." Sad to read. Does no one today learn about the failed policies of FDR and how the Depression just kept recycling each time it looked like recovery was on the horizon?

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/choice-america-future-mitt-romney-article-1.1196299

The Wisconsin State Journal picks Romney. I really disagree with them that the sloganeering, scowling, stammering Obama is more likeable and an inspiring speaker, but that misunderstanding must have been what threw them off in 2008. What could possibly be inspiring about a mish mash of socialism and sharia?

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/opinion/editorial/our-pick-mitt-romney/article_902e45bc-25cc-11e2-a89f-001a4bcf887a.html

Will update as I find them.

The ‘Las Vegas Review-Journal’ blasted Pres. Obama in a blistering editorial about the Benghazi attacks in which four Americans died, calling him an “unworthy commander-in-chief.”
“The Obama admin. sat by doing nothing for seven hours that night, ignoring calls to dispatch help from our bases in Italy, less than two hours away,” the editorial said. . . (lists numerous other faults and concludes) Mitt Romney is moral, capable and responsible man. Just this once, it's time to hold Barack Obama to his word. Maybe we can all do something about that, come Tuesday.

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/benghazi-blunder-obama-unworthy-commander-in-chief-176736441.html

Long Island Newsday:  Had Barack Obama done the job of president with the same passion and vision he displayed in seeking it, he would likely deserve another term. He did not.

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial-elect-mitt-romney-president-of-the-united-states-1.4182689

Our fearless leader

If you are a Democrat. . .

Obama showing his creepy side. . .

Ohio is a coal state

And right now the victims of Sandy need electricity more than they need President Obama shipping in gasoline.

Planned Parenthood gives our money back to Obama’s campaign

Actually, government grants and funding to Planned Parenthood in the last reported year 2009-2010 was $487.4 million—and so far $12 million from the non-profit has been given to re-elect President Obama. That’s right. This organization that cares so much about your cervix cares more about it’s proverbial booty.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/25/planned-parenthood-has-spent-12-million-to-re-elect-obama/

Both ID and billboard showing are racist

140 billboards have had to come down around Ohio announcing that voter fraud is a felony. Last year in New York, a huge sign announcing the number of abortions for black women had to be removed.  It seems telling the truth is racist, as is requiring an ID for voting.  But it's OK for Bill Maher on HBO to warn people that if they vote for Romney they'll be attacked by blacks, perpetuating that old KKK myth that blacks can't control their emotions and are dangerous.

Time for a change

Binding up the old memories

This morning I gathered up the pieces of my 1978 Upper Arlington Lutheran Church photo directory and took them to Staples (thank you, Mitt Romney, for helping that company get a start) along with some “new member inserts” and had it spiral bound with clear acrylic covers.  It had been on a shelf with a huge metal clip.  It cost me less than $3.50, and I don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner.  Looking through it I see many saints who have gone to their reward, and also many families who are no longer together.  One widow, Mary Brenner, smiled out at me.  We met in 1978 and she died in 2005.  I wrote up a few memories of her after attending her funeral.

http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2005/03/881-saying-good-bye-to-mary-she-was.html

Watergate vs. Benghazigate

People under 60 probably don't remember that in 1972 the press chair wasn't empty--NYT, Time and Washington Post were on the ball then because they hated President Nixon who was covering up a burglary that didn't even help his campaign. He hid his involvement and was reelected in a landslide. Later in 1973 when the cover up was revealed (after the election), he resigned. Obama won't be that patriotic, but eventually his cover up will be revealed. No one died in Watergate.

Bill Maher insults African Americans with racist language and stereotypes

Really?  A white, male one percenter speaks for black Democrats?  Bill Maher on HBO's Real Time Friday said, "If you're thinking about voting for Mitt Romney, I would like to make this one plea: black people know who you are and they will come after you." So he's depicting blacks as knuckle dragging, vicious, violent trouble makers?  Add that to booing God and Jerusalem, and the Democrat spokespeople like Maher are a real piece of work.

Is this the fundamental change you wanted in 2008?

We've got more debt and expanded wars, more pay offs to unions,  more crony capitalism, less transparency, a shadow president (Valerie Jarrett) much more dangerous than Rove and now another big FEMA fiasco, Sandy, with cold, hungry and powerless people after 6 days.  Medicare and Medicaid are still riddled with fraud and waste and many doctors are retiring early or changing careers. We’re facing a huge tax increase come January.  NCLB has morphed to an even bigger federal program RTTT and Social Security hasn't been fixed.  The DoJ is running guns to Mexico, and the CIA to Syria. It won’t be in time for the election but there WILL BE an investigation of Obama and Clinton’s politically based decisions and behavior on September 11, 2012, that will dwarf Watergate.  . 

So those of you who wanted fundamental change  in 2008, is this what you had in mind?

Benghazi truth straggles in despite White House cover-up

The news and documents and e-mails about Benghazi and the weeks leading up to it just keep dribbling in. Neither Obama nor Clinton look good. Someone is either incompetent or a traitor. Personally, I'm not a fan of Hillary, but I don't think it is she, and I hope this time she doesn't stand by her man.

Whatever they knew and when, they went with the YouTube story with no intelligence to back them up and repeated it to the press, TV and UN and even paid for a filmed apology to play in Pakistan; now we have reams of intelligence and they have no story. Zip, nada, zilch.

And then after a good night’s rest,  he went on the road to party with Jay-Z and Beyonce on September 12.

The fog of Benghazi

Media favors Obama—what a surprise!

MSNBC’s coverage of Mitt Romney was far more negative than Fox News’ coverage of President Barack Obama during the period of Aug. 27 through Oct. 21, according to a study from Pew Research Center.

During that time, 71 percent of MSNBC's coverage of Romney was negative, compared to 46 percent negative coverage of Obama by Fox. The News Corp. network also beat MSNBC on the positive side. Fox gave Obama 6 percent positive coverage, while MSNBC gave Romney only 3 percent positive coverage.

Overall, the mainstream media evidenced a bias toward Obama, the study shows. Coverage of Obama was 19 percent positive, 30 percent negative, and 51 percent mixed. For Romney, the totals were 15 percent positive, 38 percent negative, and 47 percent mixed.

http://www.newsmax.com/US/obama-romney-media-coverage/2012/11/02/id/462565

Please pass the Kool-Aid

James Taranto reports in today’s Wall St. Journal:

Bill Clinton may be the only person who's more enthusiastic about Obama than in 2008, but that doesn't mean the creepy cult around Obama has disappeared. The Weekly Standard notes that Mike Synan of Orlando's WOFL-TV reported yesterday on Twitter: "Crowd for #FLOTUS [Michelle Obama] event in Daytona now chanting 'Hail Obama.' "

Mrs. Obama's husband was in North Las Vegas, Nev., yesterday, and Yahoo! News reports that "about an hour before [Mr.] Obama spoke, the band played the gospel worship song 'All Around,' replacing the parts where the singer usually says 'Lord' with 'Obama.' "

Journalists pursue a story—Sheehan and Woods

Stand down, non-union utility crews--Sandy survivors don’t need you.

The President isn’t the only one who can give orders to "stand down."

"Derrick Moore, who works for Decatur Utilities in Decatur, Ala., told WAFF-TV in Huntsville that crews in Seaside Heights, N.J. turned him and his crewmates away, saying they couldn’t do any work there because they’re not union employees."

“Electric repair work for public utilities in New Jersey is dominated by the International Brotherhood Of Electrical Workers, a unit of the politically powerful AFL-CIO.

Many parts of coastal New Jersey are projected to be without electric power for at least seven to 10 more days.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/02/new-jersey-town-to-ala-volunteer-utility-crew-dont-help-with-sandy-unless-youre-unionized/#ixzz2B4AHkkU5

Let’s see if  Gov. Christie can stand up to this union, or if it is true that it is impossible to stand up to them.

They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics. To take on the public sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefit system that was headed to bankruptcy. (Republican Convention, 2012, speech)

Barack’s timeline for disasters

All saints day, November 1

Reading Exodus

Our church (Upper Arlington Lutheran Church) has been using the resource The Story (Zondervan) for morning worship, group studies and Sunday School. One can always find today’s diary or newspaper or evening news in the Old Testament. We’ll take a pause during Advent and also for All Saints Sunday.  I thought Pink’s’ assessment of Exodus explains it well.

One thing that impresses the writer more and more in his studies in and meditations upon the contents of this book of Exodus is the wonderful variety and the comprehensive range of truth covered by its typical teachings. Not only do its leading events and prominent characters foreshadow that which is spiritual and Divine, but even the smallest details have a profound significance. Moses is a type of Christ, Pharaoh of Satan, Egypt of the world. Israel groaning in bondage pictures the sinner in his native misery. Israel delivered from their cruel task-masters speaks of our redemption. Their journey across the wilderness points to the path of faith and trial which we are called on to walk. And now we are to see that the history of Israel also adumbrated the conflict between the two natures in the believer.

Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)

Obama moves quickly when an election is pending

but we all remember it took Barack Obama fourteen days to visit the gulf coast after the BP oil spill.

"On April 20, 2010 BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 workers and commencing months of oil leaking unrestrained into the ocean. Efforts to manage the spill with controlled burning, dispersants and plugging the leak were unsuccessful until BP capped the well in mid-July, temporarily halting the flow of oil into the Gulf. The well was then successfully plugged and declared "effectively dead" on September 19." Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/30/louisiana-oil-spill-2010_n_558287.html
* May 2, 2010 / U.S. pressures BP over oil spill as Obama visits Gulf: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/02/us-usa-rig-leak-idUSN0121519420100502
* May 2, 2010 / Obama goes to La. to address oil spill: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-05-02-obama-spill_N.htm
* Obama Administration Rejected Help with Oil Spill Cleanup: http://www.fortliberty.org/obama-administration-rejected-help-with-oil-spill-cleanup.html

Nanette White, FB page.

Whatever he is, it’s not good for America

“I have never entertained the idea that Obama was a Muslim and always believed he was a socialist. But Obama's behavior over the last four years regarding Islam has convinced me that Obama has a Socialist/Islamic centered worldview -- a combination that is not uncommon in many parts of the Muslim world. . .

“Both Sharia and socialism are united in their envy of Western society and need to change it. That is why Obama has become the savior of both Islam and socialism. He embodies both ideologies. The claim that Obama is a Christian was a silly joke, but a necessary lie for the greater cause of changing America to fit the goals of both creeds.”

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/obamas_taqqiya_unravels.html#ixzz2B1HHnMfA

We leave nobody behind?

Peoria Bishop explains Catholic life issue

"Today, Catholic politicians, bureaucrats, and their electoral supporters who callously enable the destruction of innocent human life in the womb also thereby reject Jesus as their Lord," Jenky added. "They are objectively guilty of grave sin." . . .

"Again, I am not telling you which party or which candidates to vote for or against," he said. "But I am saying that you need to think and pray very carefully about your vote, because a vote for a candidate who promotes actions or behaviors that are intrinsically evil and gravely sinful makes you morally complicit and places the eternal salvation of your own soul in serious jeopardy."

Peoria Bishop Daniel Jenky

Media parrots

Big Bird

Birth Control

Binders

Bayonets

Benghazi NOT

Blogger.com tracks my blog visits and page views, but I usually forget to look

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Highest day, October 26, Cue balls Joe Biden, 368

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More Planned Parenthood mischief—with children

Planned Parenthood has always been a disaster for teens—now they are going younger.  This should come as no surprise as we watch the trending in society's changing views of marriage--that it's only about rights and government benefits.  So if male/female is not the gold standard for marital sex as it has been since the beginning of recorded history, then why is TWO the standard, and then after polygamy is accepted as a right (with the help of reality TV), then tackle the age problem.  Why should only adults have "rights." So Planned Parenthood will soften the hard liners to go along with the mush brains. Read this article about PP promoting childhood sex and removal of parental input. http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/planned-parenthood-praises-sexual-pleasure-for-kids/

In a campaign disturbingly close to advocacy of child sex, the International Planned Parenthood Foundation, which advocates “sexual rights” for all, has created a “young people’s guide” in conjunction with its official declaration urging recognition of the “evolving capacities” for “sexual pleasure” in all children and young people….

Declaring that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights,” the document adds, “Therefore, all young people should be able to exercise and fulfil (sic) their rights equally, including sexual rights. … Barriers must be removed so that everyone, especially marginalized and under-served groups, can enjoy all human rights.”

Skirting the universal concept of an age of consent…

Look for this battleground in your public library children’s section.  And if you object, be prepared to be called a book banner.