Monday Memories—March 1987

Both my sister and my brother and their families moved to Florida in the late 1970s, thus giving all of us a destination for winter vacations.  My parents weren’t exactly snow birds, but in the early 80s they did get the hang of spending a few weeks and renting an apartment.  Recently a post card has surfaced from my Aunt’s estate, probably mailed from a shorter visit, and so we have a 25 year old account of what they were doing in Florida in March 1987 written by my mother to her sister.

“Had a good trip down.  Stan, Casey and Heather met us at the Sarasota airport.  The weather is quite cool, but sunny.  Carol will take me to the spa for swimming several mornings.  Howard has browned up at the ball park with Stan.  Attended Church of the Brethren again with Greg, Cindy and Ron.

String concert Sunday Eve.  My old cello is back from repairs and Heather ready to take lessons.

We will be home Thursday nite.  Having a great time.”

Planned Parenthood big Obama donor

When an organization like Planned Parenthood is suspected of not just fraud, but criminal cover-ups, falsifying medical information, violating safety standards, encouraging prostitution and sex trafficking, medical malpractice, sex-selection abortion, accepting racially-motivated donations, and huge profits, this is no longer about abortion. It’s about accountability.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/11/15/planned-parenthood-millions-in-medicaid-fraud-15m-for-obama-campaign/

No matter, it will be the Republicans’ fault

Christians shot themselves in the foot

Romney would have won if Christians had not stayed home on November 6. Conservatives, many of whom are evangelical Christians, tend to sit on their hands, and many weren't thrilled about a Mormon as their candidate. So if we need to put some blame out there, it's on us because we didn't talk to or convince our neighbors and friends that we needed a pro-life, moral man of character in the White House.  I did my part.  And you?

Warn America, not Republicans

“Pundits warn Republicans better pander to groups Obama won big, such as minorities and single women. In 1960, 1 out of 20 babies were born out of wedlock. That figure today is 4 out of 10. (below) When LBJ started his “War on Poverty” black unemployment was 8.1%. 47 years and 16 trillion dollars later that number has almost doubled. Traditional values are mocked on TV, Christianity is ridiculed and fathers are often the buffoons in the family. And on November 6th, the “hip” candidate with a disastrous record beat the “square” candidate with a record of success. So pundits, this is not about race or gender, it’s about culture. And if we continue to lose this battle, it’s not Republicans you need to warn, it’s America.”  Paula Priesse

Notice a dip around 1996?  That was welfare reform, but Democrats were successful in getting most of the benefits restored piece by piece.

There was a press conference on September 11, 2012—but not by Obama

Something else happened Sept. 11, 2012. Netanyahu of Israel said speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem, “Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”

Little did he know, or we know, that on that day, our moral authority to say anything about what was going on in the Middle East had been shattered. That was also the day Obama turned down a meeting with Netanyahu and then left the next day for a visit with Jay-Z and Beyonce, after a full day of watching the bombing of our embassy in Benghazi in real time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/world/middleeast/united-states-and-israel-engage-in-public-spat-over-iran-policy.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Two slip ups in one press conference—the first since March

Also, about this press conference, neither the President nor his media pals brought up the bombing currently going on in Israel, our closest ally, at least until the Obama administration, in the middle east.

“At one point he said: “And we’re after an election now. I think it is important for us to find out exactly what happened in Benghazi, and I’m happy to cooperate in any ways that Congress wants.” It was, of course, just as important to find out what happened in Benghazi before the election, but we should be grateful to the president for giving us this inadvertent glimpse into the role politics played in his thinking about Benghazi before he was reelected.

The president, perhaps realizing he had made a revealing slip of the tongue, went on to insist that he’d been providing information all along. But in response to a question about criticism of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice from Senators John McCain and Lindsey ­Graham, the president slipped again. “For them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Ben­ghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous.”

If Susan Rice “had nothing to do with Benghazi,” why then was she sent out to represent the administration in multiple television interviews five days after the attacks?”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/susan-rice-s-talking-points_663527.html

Questions about Benghazi-gate

Perhaps this has been addressed in the Benghazi-gate investigation, but I haven't seen it. The reason the CIA was there was to recover weapons which had fallen into the hands of al-qaeda, and which were being funneled to Syria to support anti-regime forces there. OK. Now brushing aside the deaths of the Americans (who were there for that purpose), are tons of weapons still being moved to Syria and are there still Americans in Libya attempting to either run guns or find weapons? The cover up is only part of the story (because of the election), but isn't what we were doing there also important to investigate? It looks like Congress wasn't consulted on any of this.

Another question I have about Benghazi-gate has to do with Jill Kelley, the Lebanese born Floridian socialite who parties with military big-wigs and is a close friend of Petraeus and his “betray us” wife. The FBI got into this, so we're told, because Kelley asked a friend who was in the FBI to find out who was sending her masked e-mails. Tell me how common is this and do we need to be concerned about the FBI, or any agency of government/police, checking up on private individuals as a favor for friends? And yet, asking for ID when voting is a violation of something imaginary?

While that FBI guy was doing something for a friend, another FBI guy much, much higher up saw no need to alert the President that the head of the CIA could be involved in something that could impact national security. Really? What sort of instruction do FBI members get on responsibility, authority, morality, lines of reporting, and the history of love affairs in national security going back to Cleopatra?

40 years of Roe v Wade in 2013

Over 54 million dead babies, and we still are arguing about it.  This excerpt was written in 1971, before its passage.

Now some people want to argue that legal enactments against abortion are similar to the legal enactment of laws governing the private lives of citizens. This is simply not the case. Laws concerning abortion have been made, not to change the hearts of men and women, but to protect the unborn child. Analogically, the civil rights law has been enacted not so much to make whites love blacks as to make them accord blacks those rights which are their just due.

This is common sense to most of us. We should, for instance, be utterly dumbfounded to hear someone argue that he doesn't believe a black man is human, and therefore this government has no right to legislate laws restraining him from shooting blacks. In the same way it is just as absurd for someone to argue that laws prohibiting the murder of the unborn child should not be legislated because that person does not accept the unborn child as being fully human.

http://www.journal33.org/m-frank/abortion.htm

Now things have changed a bit since this was written.  Most pro-abortion Christians I know admit abortion is taking a human life.  Where they go from there is just plain evil.

Obama is pursuing decline

“I could go to a hundred American campuses and say: ‘America’s the rogue nation in the world. It’s America’s nuclear arsenal, not Iran’s that’s the problem. We should put the leash on America.’ And I’d get thunderous applause at Berkeley, Oberlin College, Yale.

“So there’s plenty of people on the left who have this sort of ‘let’s shrink America’ ideology,” Author Dinesh D’Souza

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/dsouza-2012-obama-reelection/2012/11/17/id/464528?s=al&promo_code=10C81-1#ixzz2CWmdMcZy

Arrogance and dishonesty. . . breathtaking

VAN SUSTEREN: OK, you say they lied. So be specific. What do you think they lied about?

ROHRABACHER: Well, we know that for six days after the attack -- and we just heard from a member of the Intelligence Committee who saw the film -- they knew within a matter of hours, if not right away, that this was an organized, armed hit job by al Qaeda, probably, but an organized, commanded effort to murder our people.

Yet for six days after that, they were telling the American people that this was movie rage, this was a crowd getting out of control in order -- and then they murdered our ambassador, rather than al Qaeda.

And what does that do? That means we are not worrying about radical Islamic terrorism. Instead we're worried about a crowd getting out of control.

That was a lie! They knew it was a lie when they said it! When they sent out ambassador Rice to all the talk shows, they knew that was not the truth. When you tell something that's not the truth to the American people, especially in the middle of a crisis, they shouldn't expect to get away with it and be forgiven.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2012/11/16/breathtaking-lies-and-dishonesty-obama-and-white-house-spark-anger-benghazi-hearing#ixzz2CWA33qni

Kevin doesn’t need a liberal to tell him how to talk to his black listeners

Priorities, Mr. President?

" IMMEDIATELY after the Benghazi attack, he made the EXTRAORDINARY effort to APOLOGIZE to the Libyan, Islamic-extremist terrorists who attacked our Embassy & the safe-house, which killed an Ambassador, (2) SEALs, and another American… MORE THAN A MONTH AFTER the Benghazi TERRORIST ATTACK, he [Obama] FINALLY addresses the American public, to defend Susan Rice.”  Kitchen Cabinet member Christine Martinez

Since all the other agencies/officials (Clapper, Clinton, Pretraeus) are denying they started the film/video rumor, it could only be the White House.  But how did they get the information?  Made it up?  Hoped no one would check?

Wonder Bread left Columbus in March 2009

And now there will be no more Twinkies, but some of you will have legal marijuana.  I’d rather face a driver who’d just eaten a box of Twinkies than one who is stoned.

 

Guest blogger—a discouraged Romney voter

Not sure, but if I went back through 2004 comments on the internet, this could be a John Kerry voter. In those days, the Democrats were upset about many of the very things that bother Republicans today, especially an expanding war based on faulty intelligence (largely from the Clinton era).  They wanted recounts in Ohio, but decided finally to imitate the “values” position of the Republicans.  I don’t see anything I want to imitate in the Democrat party, except many their ability to tap the new technology to misuse the social media for their gain.  I suspect this guy, after pouting a bit, will get up, dust himself off, and continue voting and working for truth, justice, and the American way.  If he’s right, then the American way is the way of Europe.

I never thought I would see the day where Americans have grown into a mass of greedy, lazy. self serving, socialists. I never thought I would see the day where the once powerful and respectable news media would cave to the love of money over truth. I never thought I would see this once Great Nation, the envy of ALL nations on earth, crumble to the depths of socialism with the massive pile of debt that looms over our heads with no plan in sight to rid us of this burden. I am sick to my stomach. I want to vomit. What we have just witnessed is the end of The United States of America. We will never recover from this. The Republican party is doomed. We have tipped the 50% mark and will now pay the price of our greed. We have reached the point that Thomas Jefferson predicted would happen. Once people are able to vote themselves free money at the expense of other hard working people, we are done. I am done sending out political emails. I am done trying to make sense of what was happening to our country. I am done caring about it. The people have spoken. They obviously don't care. Please do not send me any more "What ifs", or "We should haves", or "if only we" type of emails any more. I really don't care any more. Mark my words, 20$ trillion dollars will be what we owe at the end of this idiots next term. That will be 1$ trillion dollars in interest every year. Unemployment will top out at around 15% and that will be the new normal and it will be okay with everyone, because this guy is....."Cool". Gas will be 6$ to 7$ dollars a gallon. Businesses, the ones that will be left, will be leaving the country in droves. It will no longer be feasible to do business in the USA any more. We will no longer be a manufacturing country. We will be nothing more than a consumer nation that will leach off of the rest of the world. How pathetic have we become? We have allowed a decent, God fearing, caring man like Mitt Romney, who had more knowledge in his little fingernail about how to return this nation to health go down to a self serving, lying, Constitution hating, Declaration of Independence loathing, racially dividing, class envying socialist. Nice work America. Good luck. God help us all.

When economics and morality clash

Lie after cover up after lie, but does it matter?

Kitchen Cabinet staff are far better researchers and experienced political analysts than I am, but I had this one nailed last week when the news of the Petraeus’ affair came out.  I figured he wouldn't lie even if he was being blackmailed.  I think Clapper and Clinton will eventually decide to tell the truth also, which leaves only the White House claiming the video story to try to save their political skin before the election.  To tell you the truth, I don’t think any smarmy revelation would budge an Obama believer by November 2012.  He’d lost about 10 million voters since 2008 because of his poor behavior as a president, but if they didn’t leave him for what we already knew, he could have dropped the A-Bomb on Libya and his fans would have stuck with him

“This is the story line emerging in the growing coverage of Benghazi by the major media this week. It’s a tale that is too rich in scandal for even the friendly New York media to ignore. But the most important story may be that General Petraeus, exposed in an embarrassing affair, gave up his job rather than line up with Hillary Clinton, the President, the UN Ambassador and others sent out to pretend like Al Qaeda was never involved. A U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans were murdered by Al Qaeda, and The White House appears to have tried to cover it up.”

http://thekitchencabinet.us/it-was-a-cover-up-the-obama-administration-lied-about-al-qaeda/

Do you suppose the election got in the way of the truth? Ya think?

This story is from ABC, after the Petraeus testimony today.  But half the electorate knew the White House was lying on September 12 just by knowing the date and the amount of ammunition used.  Why couldn’t the media connect the dots and ask more questions?  Because they didn’t want to hurt Obama’s election to another term.

"Former CIA Director David Petraeus told the House Intelligence Committee today that it's unclear why the Obama administration's original talking points on the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, don't match the CIA's original talking points.

House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told reporters that Petraeus insisted today that he was clear with Congress from the start that the event was a terrorist attack.

However, King added, Petraeus said that after the CIA prepared its talking points, they were vetted by agencies including the Justice Department and the State Department, but "no one knows yet exactly who came up with the final talking points."

"The original talking points prepared by the CIA were different than the final ones put out," King said. Originally, he said, they were "much more specific on al Qaeda involvement."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cia-chief-petraeus-grilled-house-senate-intel-panels/story?id=17736952#.UKZ5rIZqCSo

Mr. President, we hold you to this

Kristen writes to those who sent hate mail . . .

“I could stop typing now, but then you all would weep and gnash your teeth because you want more paragraphs of my wisdom over which to rejoice or send me hate mail.”

So I’m not the only one who gets hate mail from my holier than thou, self-righteous readers. . . who would have nothing to do to feel holy if I weren’t blogging about truth.

Kristen writes: “There’s a saying: “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re still a liberal at 40, you have no brain.” I get it. Liberalism is obvious to children, because the most obvious way to help people is to give them stuff and be “nice” to them. It takes a lifetime of learning – and, in my opinion, usually the influence of religion, which helps one understand that man can’t fix all of Earth’s problems – to realize that giving people “free” stuff is impossible, because nothing is free. And because giving people stuff and being “nice” to them is not nice, or helpful; it leads to dependency and corruption and general crappiness. (See Africa, ruined by aid. See also certain parts of Chicago, ruined by leniency.)

The rest of Kristen’s story.

The Petraeus testimony

Is “blackmail” a racist term now?  It didn’t work, either.

Has it only been 10 days? It's just amazing what crawled out from under the oval office carpet after the reelection. Even yesterday, in his first news conference since March, the President played the paternalistic protector of the little helpless lady, U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, who had lied for him on the talk shows in September. Hides behind her skirts, then accuses the senators of bullying her? If Rice is so weak, why nominate her for Secretary of State? Not the FBI, not the CIA, not the DoJ, not State Dept. It was the White House that changed Petraeus' statement.

"This administration has created more tails [tales] than a tuxedo factory." Greg Gutfeld, host of Red Eye, and subbing for O'Reilly. "When the race card is played, we're getting close to the truth [reference to Rice]."

The new carpet is installed—Friday Family Photo

Not seriously different than the old carpet, except in my office which was very dark forest green and the stairs to the lower level which were sisal, it really looks different.

Is he draining the swamp or feeding the alligators?

This certainly wasn't what we were told, and if this was known, why did Obama (surrogates) spend thousands of dollars on an apology campaign in Pakistan? Why was Susan Rice sent to 5 talk shows to tell lies? Was she in the ladies room when Petraeus spoke about Al Qaeda?  On September 12, on Facebook and blogs and conservative discussion groups people were already connecting the dots and crying foul.  The main stream press didn’t make it a story until it was about sex under and desk after the election. President Obama peddled the lie about the video to the United Nations 10 days after the Rice disgrace and still refuses to say what his role was or when he heard claiming it is all “under investigation.”

                

"Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that "Al Qaeda involvement" was suspected -- but the line was taken out in the final version circulated to administration officials, according to a top lawmaker who was briefed."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/16/petraeus-to-testify-knew-libya-was-terrorism-from-start-source-says/

Timeline at the Anchoress

How unions kill jobs

The company had warned it would file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to shut operations if enough workers didn't end their weeklong strike by 5 p.m. ET Thursday.

Twinkies were my husband’s favorite snack before he started watching for sugar on the label.  I probably haven’t bought anything Hostess in years, but the company provided a good living for many people.

Wikipedia:  Hostess Brands, Inc. was founded as Interstate Bakeries Corporation (IBC) in 1930 and was the largest wholesale baker and distributor of bakery products in the United States.  It is the owner of the Hostess, Wonder Bread, Nature's Pride, Dolly Madison, Butternut Breads, and Drake's brands. For many years it was based at 12 East Armour Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. In 2009, after it emerged from a 2004 bankruptcy, the name was changed to Hostess Brands, Inc., and the headquarters moved to Irving, Texas.^[2] Hostess Brands, Inc., declared Chapter 11 again in 2012.^[3] 

In May 2009, Wonder Bread closed in Columbus, Ohio. The plant was almost 100 years old, and according to the local news was too expensive to retrofit for “natural” products demanded by the consumer.

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2009/03/11/wonder_bread_close.ART_ART_03-11-09_C8_QHD6BNI.html

Let’s hope Rayburn, the CEO, doesn’t ever run for president because he’ll be blamed for taking our Twinkies.

             

What shall we do? Guest blogger, Joan

We have  a president who was voted in by the part of the electorate largely incapable of critical thinking - beginning with single women under the age of 29, and the "receivers" of government largesse, etc.

The questions in my mind in addition to the aforementioned unfortunate reason for the accelerated demise of the "republican" form of government are:

• Why is there not more outcry about the voting fraud? The lack of proper identification; some of the Ohio districts having not one single vote for Romney; a cargo plane crashing (reason please?) with 47000 pieces of mail, largely ballots from our servicemen in Afghanistan. The only one screaming is Allen West. More screaming, please.
• And, it was my opinion from the start that the conservatives among us never explained why conservatism trumps liberalism. Fundamental Christians are largely Democrats. It's so touchy feely to help those less fortunate. Never mind that this approach keeps them remain less fortunate. Why haven't we gone to the heart of the matter? It's a philosophical difference. It is the difference between success and failure.
• Our children are not taught the Constitution in school, history has been rewritten, how often do you hear the Pledge of Allegiance these days? Patriotism seems limited only to the military. Seems to me, we have a lot of work to do, and the answer, I don't believe, is in the "perfect candidate" unless that candidate does not have to fight ugly in primaries and go off the deep end early on, and unless that candidate takes the time to sell "conservatism". It's time to wake up a sleeping population.

Guess they will wake up in ashes.

And so I wonder what I can or should be doing. Feel like a voice in the wilderness.

Any ideas, Norma?

Not all Supreme Court decisions are morally right

And some are based on the transient, immoral culture rather than the law.

Dedicated to the lapdog media

Filioque—what separates the Eastern and Western churches

The Roman Catholic catechism has a 2 paragraph footnote in the explanation of the Trinity, (Article 1, Paragraph 2,  243, )which explains the rift between the Eastern and Western churches.

245 The apostolic faith concerning the Spirit was confessed by the second ecumenical council at Constantinople (381): "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father." By this confession, the Church recognizes the Father as "the source and origin of the whole divinity". But the eternal origin of the Spirit is not unconnected with the Son's origin: "The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is God, one and equal with the Father and the Son, of the same substance and also of the same nature... Yet he is not called the Spirit of the Father alone,... but the Spirit of both the Father and the Son." The Creed of the Church from the Council of Constantinople confesses: "With the Father and the Son, he is worshipped and glorified."

246 The Latin tradition of the Creed confesses that the Spirit "proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque)". The Council of Florence in 1438 explains: "The Holy Spirit is eternally from Father and Son; He has his nature and subsistence at once (simul) from the Father and the Son. He proceeds eternally from both as from one principle and through one spiration. ... And, since the Father has through generation given to the only-begotten Son everything that belongs to the Father, except being Father, the Son has also eternally from the Father, from whom he is eternally born, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son."

247 The affirmation of the filioque does not appear in the Creed confessed in 381 at Constantinople. But Pope St. Leo I, following an ancient Latin and Alexandrian tradition, had already confessed it dogmatically in 447, even before Rome, in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon, came to recognize and receive the Symbol of 381. The use of this formula in the Creed was gradually admitted into the Latin liturgy (between the eighth and eleventh centuries). The introduction of the filioque into the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed by the Latin liturgy constitutes moreover, even today, a point of disagreement with the Orthodox Churches.

248 At the outset the Eastern tradition expresses the Father's character as first origin of the Spirit. By confessing the Spirit as he "who proceeds from the Father", it affirms that he comes from the Father through the Son. The Western tradition expresses first the consubstantial communion between Father and Son, by saying that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque). It says this, "legitimately and with good reason", for the eternal order of the divine persons in their consubstantial communion implies that the Father, as "the principle without principle", is the first origin of the Spirit, but also that as Father of the only Son, he is, with the Son, the single principle from which the Holy Spirit proceeds. This legitimate complementarity, provided it does not become rigid, does not affect the identity of faith in the reality of the same mystery confessed.

I hope that’s clear. . . because it split the church forever, and all Protestants (who use the Nicene creed) follow the Western tradition. Even the most devout Christian has difficulty explaining the Trinity, and this makes it even more difficult. If you’re looking for age (tradition), then that would be the Eastern church, but the Magisterium would decide for filioque.

 

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From a great Republican

Did anyone in America fall for this?

President Obama sent Susan Rice out to defend his false story about a spontaneous mob reacting to a video so he could cover up that his battle against al-qaeda is not being won, and that the CIA was moving arms to Syria from Libya.  When word came out that she might become Secretary of State, and people obviously remember what she did in September, of course there’s grumbling. Hero Obama to the rescue.

“Don’t pick on the little lady.

Wednesday, President Obama bizarrely cast the U.N. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, as some delicate flower the boys should stop picking on for her dissembling claims on five Sunday talk shows following the killing of 4 Americans in Benghazi. But, there is no damsel in distress and Obama’s paternalistic bravado in defense of a top administration official is going to come back to haunt him.”

Kirsten Powers

Deflect, evade, sneer, whine, blame.  It’s getting very old. Can’t this man ever act (pretend) presidential? Even people (some who read this blog) who voted for him realize what is going on.

Thursday Thirteen—what I uncovered in my office

Today we’re having new carpet installed in my home office and the stairs to the upper level and the lower level and the upstairs hall (same pattern).  But everything had to be moved out of the office (not things on the wall shelves).  To move the desk, everything had to be taken out of the drawers and I found a rolling 25 gallon tub for that. To move a 3 shelf unit for photo albums, all had to be moved.  The computer, modem, wifi, phone, etc. had to relocated temporarily. It’s just amazing what turns up in a move—even a move from the office to the dining room.

1.  A birthday letter to me from my mother from 1996.  She died in 2000, and I didn’t pack away that letter, but wasn’t real sure where it was.   Like having her here to tell me about the day of my birth and why my nickname was “Peachy.” 

2.  Lots of homemade cards from my friend Lynne.  We’ve been friends since high school.  I have a scrap book for her cards and poetry, but somehow a little sack of them stayed behind in my desk.

3.  A box of note cards with a Frank Lloyd Wright design, plus lots of miscellaneous cards, many as mementoes from museums and travels, from the days when I did less e-mail and more personal notes.

4.  A little stamp with my name on it from when I was a Slavic language cataloger at the University of Illinois library. I think the main entry card was stamped with the cataloger’s name in case there was a problem.

5.  A set of weights my daughter gave me for Christmas 2 years ago, 3 lb.., 5 lb., 8 lb.  Almost like new.  They were hard to move.

6.  The first issue of George magazine.  I collect first issues of serials, and this one didn’t get into the storage box when I rearranged my collection 2 years ago.

7.  Scissors for crafts.  Zig zag, shaped patterns, etc.  I’m not crafty, so not sure why I bought them. It was probably either a good deal or I had a flash of ambition that dissipated before I got home.

8.  Pennies, twisty ties,paper clips, mystery keys to suitcases I no longer have and rubber bands too brittle to use.

9.  A letter with the last 41 cent postage stamp on it (I’d made a note on the envelope).

10. A photo of my sister and me from 2002 printed from my computer, but I don’t seem to have either a digital copy or print of it.

11. Lots of carefully saved instructions, guarantees, warranties, for digital stuff I almost never use or have replaced.

12. A very nice, never used color coded notebook with 3 x 5 cards. 

13. A faded poem on yellow lined paper from my husband written in 1960 on the anniversary of our first date.  It was probably in the desk because I repacked that box of memorabilia when we moved here, and so it surfaced 11 years later.

If you’d like to play Thursday Thirteen, or read along, you can join in.

Warming has stopped—but not the debates

“The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week.

The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.

This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years. “

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released--chart-prove-it.html#ixzz2CIeSq5l4

Climate change was not an issue during the campaign, for either candidate, but we can expect Obama to dust off the issue, even with the reports that warming has stopped. He needs to grovel for his base left.

Questions I’d like to have answered by the Congressional investigation

‎1) Who denied the help, 2) who started the spin about the video, 3) who benefits from the cover up, and 4) why is the CIA in Libya funneling weapons to Syria? These are questions I'd like to have answered by the investigation, but I know they won't be, and even if they were, Obama would find a way to blame someone else.  The only time this man wants to be out of the spotlight is when the buck is trying to stop.  The sex story of Petraeus, Broadwell, Kelly, Allen, Kelly’s sister, and the FBI guy is complicated and morphing—it perhaps needs a different investigation.  And this isn’t for the investigation, but are they showing “fat” photos of Hillary, or has she really gained that much weight? Maybe she needs fewer parties and more attention to what her people are doing?

How to lose the race

If you're competing in a horse race, and one of the horses has a better record, better sire and dam, better trainer, and is stronger, it's only fair to the other horses and owners to put him in hobbles to run the race. If Obama owns the track.

The cover up may involve sex, and it looks like national security too

Too bad there is no journalist or TV reporter who could look into the implications. Jill’s twin sister, Natalie and her child custody case,is really one of the more interesting sub-texts of this mess, which no one on reality TV or the Soaps would even attempt. http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/14/jill-ted-petraeus-scandal-infographic/

And you thought the battle would end with recognizing gay marriage?

Our church is no longer a member of ELCA, but when we pulled out, it wasn’t exactly about “gay marriage” because that hasn’t yet been voted on.  The issue which had been voted down since 1988, but approved in 2008, was that three ordained and licensed homosexual pastors wanted to be open about their partners, but when they signed on they had agreed to be celibate.  There are very naïve Christians out there who think if we just make a concession that only love and personal commitment matter, then we can get on with the business of the Gospel.  However, it’s not quite that simple, because other groups like polygamists, man/boy love and incest groups are waiting in the wings also asking for the church to give them its blessing, because really, doesn’t God just care about love, not the gender, the age, or the number?

Today at Dear Prudence (Slate) I read one I’d simply never thought of:  twin gay brothers in a committed homosexual relationship with each other.  The advice columnist saw no problem, nor did their counselor, because even the men thought it was a little odd, and hadn’t told their parents, who knew they were gay but wondered why they hadn’t found a permanent partner.

This, dear Christian brothers and sisters, is where you are heading. 

Stocks slumping, layoffs jumping

All because businesses preferred Romney.

Layoffs can be found at dailyjobcuts.com, which is updated daily, and unless you were watching before Nov.6 it might be hard to gauge. However, we know many employers were waiting to see if Romney could kill Obamacare, and thus save jobs. But one I saw I think predates the election, or at least there were rumors. and that's layoffs at Southern Illinois University. Many colleges are over staffed, and have whopping pensions to pay off. Illinois is in deep doo-doo with all gov't associated programs and unions, and we've elected one of them to mess up the rest of the states.

http://thesouthern.com/news/local/siu-layoffs-possible-in-january/article_46eccbae-2ee5-11e2-997c-001a4bcf887a.html

SIU is facing the prospect of covering more employee pension costs under a deal Gov. Pat Quinn wants finished by early January. In addition, sequestration measures that might happen if the federal government pitches over the “fiscal cliff” could severely cripple research and student aid funding.

Did she hid them In her socks?

“The FBI found a substantial amount of classified information improperly secured on the personal computer of disgraced CIA director Gen. David Petraeus’ mistress, sources said yesterday.

The files were discovered on a machine removed from Paula Broadwell’s Charlotte, NC, home as the feds investigated her sordid affair with the military commander whose biography she co-wrote.

Investigators also found documents Broadwell admitted taking from secure government buildings, a source told ABC News, adding the government demanded that they all be returned.”

How did this man ever manage something as complicated as the “surge” if he can’t stay out of messes like this?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/paula_had_top_secrets_WukhCN61iSxyauU5ErBAtK

Remember David Gergen of the Clinton WH said Sandy Berger hiding classified documents in his socks was innocent, too.

Imagine if we had a press corps like Bush had !

The Libya mess expands and morphs

The White House (Jarrett, Obama, Clinton, Rice, etc.) decided to go into Libya without Congressional approval or knowledge. It blew up in their faces. Now they lie, cover up and play musical chairs with positions close to the president. I’m looking for a story link about how effective representative government is during an Obama term.  Have you got any? One?

The minority Republican says . . .

“I can understand the peoples support for the Democrat Party. Much of what they say they stand for sounds moral and compassionate, especially concerning the poor and minority populations. Yet, my convictions and research eventually led me to reject the Democrat ideology, preferring to side with people and political parties more aligned with the morals and values consistent with my Christian faith.

I used to be a Democrat, but I am no longer. I am a registered Republican. Not because I thought the Republican Party was so righteous, but because there came a time in my life as a Democrat, that I could no longer reconcile my politics and my faith.”

“. . . The primary reasons why I reject the Democrat platform is because it has within it the most immoral and ungodly principles to guide this nation. Our preference for this course for our nation is a sure sign that we as a nation have not rejected the Republican Party, per se, but we have rejected God. Just like in the days of Samuel, when the Israelites demanded that Samuel “appoint them a king,” God told Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me.”

. . . “But the reason I choose not to vote Democrat has little to do with the fact that they are the party of Jim Crow and the KKK, but that today they are on the wrong side of the EVERY ISSUE that matters to me most. “Choice,” “Reproductive Rights,” “Marriage Equality,” “Fair Share,” are all repackaged code names for the same age old sins: “child-killing,” “sodomy,” and “covetousness.” Nothing new under the sun.

http://minorityrepublican.com/2012/11/11/post-election-rant/    You might enjoy reading her entire essay. . . or maybe not.  If you want to write to her about being a hater, racist, homophobe, etc., you’ll have  to register.

This chart scares 50% of the electorate

The other 50% are Obama voters.  Good luck, Boomers.

Still covering for a man

Compromise

Listening to the Great Divider give first news conference in 8 months

It's tragic that so many Americans fall for the line--"tax the rich," not to help the country, but because it's "fair."  The richest already pay much more—and they are the job creators.  Obama wants that money.  Today he was just defensive and nasty especially about Susan Rice and her deception about the video. I turned it off after about 15 minutes.  Obama whips up class envy. He's a divider, not a unifier. We do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. The only years that match 2012 are those of 2011 and 2010—all Obama.    If you've ever had a problem with a budget, didn't you cut up the credit cards and cut back on extras?  But that's not how the federal government does it.  It recruits more people for food stamps and adds expensive programs like Obamacare and adds regulations that destroy jobs so more people can become dependent on the government.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/11/14/live-blog-the-obama-press-conference/

More war on women revealed—after the election

“The federal government has cut the size of its police force in Indian country, reduced financing for law enforcement and begun fewer investigations of violent felony crime, even as rates of murder and rape there have increased to more than 20 times the national average, according to data.”

New York Times

Why would tribal crime rates go up under Democrats? 

I think I’ll pass on this one

A “hoodie” sweatshirt from my alma mater—Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

I read those show trial books from the 1930s USSR

We know what we know. We know Obama knew about Benghazi and he knew about Petraeus (whether he knew about all those other crazies, is anyone's guess). What we don't know is what he has promised/threatened Gen. Petraeus. What Petraeus gets to keep of his reputation, rank, wealth, etc. if he goes along with the administration's version of Benghazi in the testimony, which has been set up to satisfy all those right wing nuts in Congress and on the internet.  If you believe it, that’s your business, you now own this mess. 

The problem is. . .

"[T]he key point about Barack Obama is not that he's a secret Muslim Kenyan Commie or whatever. Whether he was born in Honolulu or Mombasa or Stockholm or up on Planet Zongo, what matters ... is that in his general worldview he is entirely typical and perfectly representative of tens upon tens of millions of Americans. Tuesday's majority confirmed that. They don't need a 'conspiracy': They agree with him. That's the problem." --columnist Mark Steyn

And you know who you are.  Shame on you.  Abortion—54 million since Roe v. Wade and he takes $15 million from the largest provider to get elected; deficit—a trillion a year since taking office; black unemployment 14.3%;  cover-ups since September 11, 2012—too many to count.

If a black man posts on Facebook. . .

“Beware people, you have all just seen happen was the the dirtiest and most corrupt election of our time. Voter fraud, diversion from his failed policies, plans to eliminate our military strength, and creating the biggest national debt of all prior presidents combined.”

Is he a racist?

Newsninja2012

If you build it, they will come

Fat Cat Obama supporter is cutting workforce in medical devices

"Stryker Corporation has announced that it will close its facility in Orchard Park, New York, eliminating 96 jobs next month. It will also counter the medical device tax in Obamacare by eliminating 5% of their global workforce, an estimated 1,170 positions. Jon Stryker was one of the top 5 donors to Obama's campaign. . .   Stryker contributed millions to help Democrat candidates in his home state of Michigan. He also gave nearly $250 million to groups supporting gay rights, transgenderism, and funds social justice projects." 

Is anyone organizing protests?

Really? For Secretary of Defense?

Wouldn’t you just feel so safe?  Do you have any doubts that Obama is attempting to destroy the country?

Kerry in his winter soldier speech said the U.S. shouldn’t be involved in a civil war.  Yet the leader of his party has interfered in about 5 civil wars (aka Arab Spring) to support those Muslim parties with which he agrees. If Obama is right, then LBJ must have been, too.

Did I miss anyone?

The Head of the CIA, the FBI, the military, the Secret Service, the Head of the Department of Defense, the Attorney General, our U.N. Ambassador, the Secretary of State, the Senate--have I missed anyone? Oh yes, our Secretary of the Treasury. Is there anyone else that Obama appointed or touched or commended who hasn't been made to look like our country is run by the Katzenjammer Kids? He has made us the laughing stock of the world.

It just wouldn’t do for there to be any heroes as he drags the country down.

Update: I missed one. Last week, during an Election Day event supporting President Barack Obama in Fountain, Colorado, U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar threatened a local reporter following a seemingly routine interview and said, “If you set me up like this again, I’ll punch you out,”

Hostess lay offs. Can they save the Twinkies?

My husband’s favorite junk food—Twinkies.  Nothing else comes close.  Unions have destroyed a lot of businesses.  And usually it is the higher paid ones.

                       

“Hostess Brands Inc. is permanently closing three bakeries following a nationwide strike by its bakers union.

The maker of Twinkies, Ding Dongs and Wonder Bread said Monday that the strike has prevented it from producing and delivering products, and it is closing bakeries in Seattle, St. Louis and Cincinnati. The facilities employ 627 workers.

Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, operates 36 bakeries nationwide and has about 18,300 employees. It warned earlier this month that the strike, by about 30 percent of its workforce, could lead to bakery closures.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/11/13/twinkies-maker-hostess-closing-3-bakeries-after-strike/#ixzz2C8smZqwL

Thank you, Mr. President

    Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
    “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
    and before you were born I consecrated you;
    I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
(Jeremiah 1:4-5 ESV)

Paula Priesse says Conservatism works and Liberalism fails

“1) If for the past 25 years California had lower taxes, balanced budgets & tighter immigration would CA residents be better or worse off today?

2) If for these same 25 years Michigan had been a right-to-work state, promoted school choice and developed true enterprise zones, would Detroit be better or worse off today?

3) If 25 years ago we began real entitlement reform would future generations be better or worse off today?

These DC dolts wanting conservatives to be more liberal have never understood two things: 1) Conservatism works 2) Liberalism fails. P”

Only one week after 50% gave him a second term (although that number is being questioned)*

                 

The President is thinking of appointing the veteran who threw away his Vietnam War medals and accused our soldiers of war crimes as our next Secretary of Defense, and the woman that lied to us for weeks saying a "video" caused the Benghazi embassy attacks will probably replace Hillary Clinton as our next Secretary of State.

And here we thought last Wednesday through Friday couldn’t be topped.

*100 precincts in Ohio gave Obama over 99% of the vote—not even Chavez or Saddam Hussein could pull that off.

The Volt vs. the Cruze

“The $40,000 Volt is basically a $17,000 Cruze - with a 500 lb., 25-mile range, eight-hour-to-charge battery. Which is toxic when spent - and costs somewhere between $8,000 and$15,000 to replace. . .

We the Taxpayers own 26% of GM’s stock - and are poised to lose more than $40 billion on the auto bailout.

In no small part because GM - the company in which we are conscripted investors - is wasting tens of millions - and the Feds billions more - tilting at Volt windmills.”   Seton Motley

It isn't the sex, it's the blackmail potential and the cover up.

If you haven't watched this story line on TV or movies, it's standard fare for affairs. And David Petraeus, military hero and head of the CIA, was blackmailed--but by the White House. Or attempted blackmail--it looks like he wouldn't play along--although the Benghazi story just keeps growing. Let's see if he'll testify, or if they have something even bigger on him. Meanwhile, you can count on our media to only investigate the sex story.

I've heard 2 interviews today with Newt Gingrich about his new book, but since he was a candidate earlier in the year, he's asked about the current scandal with Petraeus and now another guy (I'm losing track) also connected to one of the women with 30,000 pages of e-mail. I wanted to yell POT KETTLE (Newt is a serial philanderer and had to have 2 marriages annulled to marry his current wife), but I also realize this is not about sex despite how the media plays it. It's about blackmail and a huge cover up and a president who is unfaithful to the people who elected him.

Do I think the Petraeus affair if known before the election would have changed things? No. 1) The general electorate hadn't even heard about Benghazi so they would have said, big deal, some guy was unfaithful to his wife. 2) Nothing would stop an Obama supporter from voting. 3) A Petraeus affair wouldn't get the Christians and Republicans to the polls who already believed it wouldn't matter. What's important is Obama apparently thought it would matter, and he did yet another cover up.

Since Sept. 11, 2012 no one in the administration has told us the truth. But they practiced for 4 years to get it right. Half of the electorate will follow him anywhere.

It’s still about Benghazi, not sex

It has come out that the White House knew about Petraeus’ affair before he was appointed head of the CIA, Sept. 6, 2011.    If Obama didn’t know then who on his team is doing the vetting and why wouldn’t they tell him, since so many people seemed to know?  And e-mail?  What could possibly go wrong?  Why did they need something hanging over him and what plans did they have for the CIA?

This cover up has more layers than a rotting onion. 

Should Republicans become Democrat-lite to get more votes, or should more Republicans vote?

I’ve been listening to the various excuses the media and conservative talkers are making for the Republican loss, and they range everywhere from women want abortions to Hurricane Sandy. But the most logical ones in my opinion are Republicans lost the 18-29 demographic which has a higher opinion of socialism than capitalism according to a Pew Report, and we lost the minority vote even though they are more likely to have traditional values, and many Republicans, particularly Christians, just didn’t vote.

Here’s the problem. Republicans can’t promise more free stuff—Democrats have that plan covered, and we know that when Reagan passed amnesty in 1986 (IRCA), it actually decreased the number of Hispanics voting Republican. We’ve learned that blacks will vote by party and race, no matter the black candidate or his record.

Black Republicans lost races to far less capable white Democrats with Obama money backing them. Also, those races won by Republicans for Congress or at the state level were won by the conservatives, not the traditional moderate Republicans, who are doing the hand wringing and saying Republicans need to be more like Democrats.

Yes, Rush, Democrats do discuss changing their spots when they lose—Monday Memories

I recall listening to a panel in 2004 moaning about John Kerry losing the presidency. I think Ohio's Ted Strickland, a former Methodist pastor, was on the panel. You know what they came up with? Democrats need to go after the "values" voters, Republican territory. And they did. They went after Evangelicals with that "hope" message in 2008, got Rick Warren and other evangelical pastors even the Vineyard appearing with Obama and surrogates, supported traditional marriage, didn't mention abortion, put Soros funding in the right places and they won.

What has Obama done for blacks?

After the election results showed 95% of blacks voted right down racial lines for Obama, someone observed, "But he hasn't done anything for the black community!" Oh, but he has. What do blacks with an unemployment rate of over 14% need most? A job, or course. What has he done for them? Given them free stuff and guaranteed they will be right where he needs them to be while he's off partying with black celebrities at the tippy top of the 1%.

What is harder to imagine is what has he done for evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics.  And yet, many voted for him.  Maybe 50% of Catholics.  They are voting to destroy the finest social system in the world with a network of schools, hospitals, training programs, social workers  through the tearing down of the first amendment rights of all Americans.

Not only have we become America, the land of the takers, but even the givers won’t be allowed to help those in need. The government wants all the power, all the control, all the values.  It’s name is statism.

God is pro-choice . . . pro right choice

A New York priest, Father Rutler of Church of our Savior, writes his parish letter without heat and power after the storm, after the election:

"Those who oppose Christ have their day, but it does not last long, and soon they also have their night, when they shrink away into dark corners. In the great challenge of our culture, we are free to choose light or darkness. God is pro-choice: He has given us a free will. But He is only pro right choice. The exercise of choice is not self-justifying. Only the choice of the light of Christ can save us from the darkness of Satan. And what better authority can we have for this than our holy God Himself? “I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, then, that you and your descendants may live” (Deuteronomy 30:19)."

http://www.oursaviournyc.org/pastors-corner/from-the-pastor-1

Welcome to the economy of Obama’s second term

“A number of groups, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, expect a rush of new regulations now that President Obama has won a second term:
CEI expects the EPA to move ahead on delayed rules on everything from greenhouse gas emissions to ozone standards. “Rules from the health care bill and the Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill will also likely make themselves known in the weeks to come," the group said on its website”

A lot was put on the shelf the last two years, frustrating Obama’s leftist base, but as he told the Russians, after his reelection he would have more flexibility.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/6125-proposed-regulations-and-notifications-posted-last-90-days-average-68-day

List of job losses since Obama’s reelection

Obamacare is the law of the land—John Boehner says so. If companies lay off workers, cut hours, don’t expand or close, Oh Well.  It’s the will of the people. At least 50% of them. 

November 10 , 2012

Update: DuPont Co in Richmond VA - 64

TMX Group Ltd. - 100

Penn Refrigeration - 40

Wilkes-Barre PA - Layoffs Possible

Standard Bank Group Ltd. - up to 15% of Staff

The Art Gallery of Windsor ( International ) - 12

American Coal - 54

New Energy Corp. Indiana - Idles 40

November 9 , 2012

Mills Manufacturing NC - 68

TECO Coal Corporation - 90

Energizer Holdings Inc - 1,500

Update: Exide Technologies in Laureldale - 150

Southeastern Container - 15

Update: UtahAmerican Energy Inc - 102

The SCA plant in Barton - Plans Staff Reductions

Plexus Corp - Contract Loss Could = Layoffs

Yakima Regional Medical Center Washington - 10+

Crouse Hospital Syracuse NY - 70 Jobs

November 8 , 2012

Eagle-Tribune in North Andover - 21

Ameridose LLC - up to 650 Layoffs

EMD Millipore St. Charles - Some Layoffs

Groupon - 80

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne - 100

Slidell La. - Warns of Possible Layoffs

Westinghouse Anniston - 50

Research in Motion Ltd. HQ - 200

Lightyear Network Solutions - 12+

The Providence Journal Co. - 23

Hawker Beechcraft - 240 Layoffs + Facility Closings

November 7 , 2012

Boeing - 30% of Executives at Defense Unit

CVPH Medical Center - 17 Pink Slips

U.S. Cellular - 980

Commerzbank ( German ) - up to 6,000 Layoffs Possible.

Spanish airline Iberia - up to 7,000 Possible

Momentive Performance Materials - 150 Temp, Layoffs

Brake Parts LLC - 75

Gameforge Berlin - 20

Vestas Wind Systems - 3,000 More Job Cuts

Husqvarna AB - 600

ING - 2,350

Ericsson ( Sweden) - 1,550

SRA International Inc - 222 in Arlington Va.

PerkinElmer - 66 Layoffs During 3rd Quarter

Majestic Star Casino and Hotel - About 80

Center for Hospice / Palliative Care NY - 40 Temp. Layoffs

Expect more global warmists fear mongering

            

Sandy was a terrible tragedy for many.  Lives. Property. Memories.  The climate will be blamed for “changing,” but not the federal government which has encouraged wealthy home owners to build in areas that need to remain barriers for normal outcomes of bad storms.  The poor aren’t the only ones addicted to government hand outs.

I’ve looked over the maps of Lake Erie going back hundreds of years  where we have our summer home, and right now the lake is very low.  But when we first vacationed there in the 1970s it was so high it was eating up many vacation homes built close to the water.  Artificial barriers were built to hold back the water.  That worked well—simply gouged out the beaches behind the barriers.

Historically, insurance companies have been wary of offering flood insurance to homeowners because the risks associated with flood insurance are difficult to forecast, so any private insurance that had been offered was prohibitively expensive for average homeowners.

But in the 1960s, frequent flooding of the Mississippi River was driving up the costs of federal disaster-relief programs. In an effort to reduce these costs, Congress set up the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) to provide flood insurance to the general public and promote effective floodplain management. Under the program, homeowners in certain areas of the U.S. are required to buy flood insurance, and communities that hope to benefit from the program have to enforce city-planning regulations set out by FEMA, which manages NFIP.

Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/10/30/should-the-federal-government-be-subsidizing-flood-insurance/#ixzz2BwvKGIty

Al Gore has made millions on his climate scam, and Sandy will only encourage him. In 1502 Columbus warned the Governor of Hispanola of a coming storm, and he was ignored. Within two days the storm struck in the Mona Passage between Hispanola and Puerto Rico, and sank 21 of his 30 ships, and killed approximately 500 sailors. Nasty stuff, that global warming.

Check out this site for the listing of the terrible hurricanes of the 1950s-1970s http://www.raptureready.com/time/Hurricane.html

Some Twits don't understand economics

It seems there is a discussion on Twitter that some Twits are upset that restaurants might have to consider lay offs because of Obamacare.  Libs think that is “punishing” people because of the election results.  Really?  I guess if there is $80,000-$100,000 less in the budget, they should just expand anyway, or keep giving raises?

“Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter was hammered with Twitter abuse after informing shareholders and franchisees in August that implementing Obamacare would necessarily increase costs of running the business.” 

Doh!  Didn’t Nancy Pelosi promise this when she said we’d have to wait to find out what was in the bill?  Some bold Twits are calling for a boycott.  Now that should really help restaurant employees, but that’s what liberals know about economics.

Sunday morning news

Watching  EWTN this morning and Bishop Fulton Sheen talk about scientific research advances--in 1956. It's in B&W and his hair was still dark. He's trying to make it interesting by joking about how dull the subject is. He must have launched a hundred religious TV preachers, but I don't think anyone has matched him. Conclusion: scientists don't invent, they discover. God does the inventing. God has put all the laws out there. But he was right--it was rather dull. Psalms say the same thing.

Switched to the national news—two weeks after Sandy and the people in New Jersey and New York are practically rioting.  It’s a good thing Obama put in an appearance the day after the storm.  It certainly helped, didn’t it?  This will all be used for his new regulations to stem climate change.  See item above—especially Psalms.

Hmm.  Long lists of lay offs are coming out. I feel badly for the workers; they not only lose income, but their social support, especially women who are more likely than men to depend on work friends. But hey, they’ve got free birth control for voting with their lady parts instead of their check book. This will be Obama’s legacy—same as the first term.  Higher unemployment,  more on food stamps, and the poor getting the shaft with Obamacare.  Yes, this is what America, or 50% of us, voted for. In 2009 eligible people were signing up for SNAP benefits at an average rate of 20,000 a day. This year, the rate increased to 22,000 a day. Why is that since according to the chief, jobs are coming back and unemployment is believe 8%. I think it may be because more people were hired with ARRA money to recruit recipients.

And General Petraeus’ lover got nasty with some other woman and that’s how the investigation got started?  Did she drive somewhere wearing a diaper?  What makes lovers/mistresses think they have more rights than wives? Hey, he’s already been proven unfaithful.   We’ll never know about his testimony on Benghazi.  It will be behind closed doors, and our ever vigilant press won’t be able to find a single leaker.  When his tell all book comes out, Americans will be busy watching the latest White House reality TV show, Dancing with the Muslim Brotherhood.

Big explosion in Indianapolis destroyed 14 homes, and 2 dead.  I’ll have to check with the relatives.

Will the media cover the Petraeus story for the sex/gossip angle?

This commenter on Krauthammer makes a lot of sense—both about the media and the so called “legacy” angle that some people think will moderate Obama’s behavior the next 4 years.

“Obama and the media today do not play by the rules of the past. Obama is not going to be cowed by concerns for his legacy -- he's already loved by those who voted for him and he's not going to get more love from them by trying to win anyone else over. In addition, he's a hard-core ideologue, despite his pretensions otherwise, and he knows there's more legacy benefit in pushing the ideology button than doing what's good for the country or the public as a whole. He's playing the Rushmore Annex card here, looking to get a spot next to FDR.

As for the media, likewise they do not play by the rules of the past. To prove this, you need look no further than how the media, largely en masse, has ignored Benghazi, which is, by any measure, a huge, juicy scandal. So, I do not believe that the media will cover this story unless Petraeus drops a nuclear bomb on the administration in his upcoming testimony. But then, his testimony -- if it even happens -- is behind closed doors, so again, that's unlikely.”

Massive layoffs begin

I wonder how many of the employees of these companies voted for their own pink slip?  I’ve seen lists longer than this one.

http://nation.foxnews.com/2012-presidential-election/2012/11/09/obama-reelection-triggers-massive-layoffs-across-america

The biggest losers in Obamacare are the poor

“The biggest losers are Medicaid and the poor. Very quietly, the Affordable Care Act introduced a revolutionary change: All poor people in America would get Medicaid. The new law would have extended Medicaid to everyone with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line ($23,050 a year for a family of four). Aren’t the poor already covered? That depends on where they live. In New York, most adults up to 150 percent of the poverty line are covered; in Texas, Medicaid reaches only to 26 percent of the poverty line — a family of four is not eligible if they earn, say, $9,000 a year. The court ruled that Congress may not require states to expand Medicaid. States can stick to their old Medicaid programs. Stingy states may choose to stay stingy. That part of the decision flew under the media radar. But it is a significant blow to liberals who had a simple way to grow benefits by expanding programs.”  James Morone, Seven consequences of the health care ruling. New York Times

Ohio’s bills will be going up, Indiana and Michigan’s bills will go down.

For my troll named Dave

You need some new lines, Dave.  Are they in macro ready to plop?  Do you grace all conservative bloggers with your words of wisdom, or am I special?  Until you can actually counter my facts with your facts, you won’t be published in my comments. You’re beginning to sound like the broken record you are.

Here’s one comment from my Facebook page messaging feature a few minutes ago:

“Ever since the election I have read almost everyone of your posts and am listening to Rush more often. Just so you know that you posts are being read.”