Where to start?

"Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS' behavior 'inappropriate.' No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the IRS for political purposes is a criminal offense. ... Liberals, whose unvarying agenda is enlargement of government, suggest, with no sense of cognitive dissonance, that this IRS scandal is nothing more sinister than typical government incompetence. Five days before the IRS story broke, Obama ... warned Ohio State graduates about 'creeping cynicism' and 'voices' that 'warn that tyranny is ... around the corner.' Well." --columnist George Will

"Can we not at least agree that the Obama administration has established a culture conducive to the type of stereotypical thinking that could lead to this? Didn't the Department of Homeland Security under this administration list right-wing groups as extremists and potential terrorists? Hasn't President Obama himself referred to tea partyers as 'tea baggers'? Haven't other Democrats deliberately depicted tea party groups as violent extremists who are a hair trigger away from armed revolution? Liberals have been trying to vilify conservative talk radio for years now, suggesting that its strong political opinions lead to violence. That is preposterous, but if we were to apply the same type of standard to Obama, we could say that he has personally fomented a climate of hate against conservative groups, such that the IRS targeting was completely foreseeable. Surely, it's fair to hold the president to his own standard." --columnist David Limbaugh

"With lies, as with potato chips, it is hard to stop with just one. ... The problem with telling a lie, or even a succession of lies, is that a very small dose of the truth can sometimes make the whole thing collapse like a house of cards. The State Department's own foreign service officer Gregory Hicks was in Libya during the [Benghazi] attack, so he knew the truth. When threats were not enough to silence him, it was then necessary to try to discredit him. After years of getting glowing job evaluations, and awards of honors from the State Department for his work in various parts of the world, Mr. Hicks suddenly began to get bad job evaluations and was demoted to a desk job in Washington after he spoke with a Congressman about what he knew. The truth is dangerous to liars." --economist Thomas Sowell

"We may be disgusted and horrified by Kermit Gosnell, but we should not be shocked by his crimes. Thanks to the misguided social entrepreneurship of the Supreme Court, abortion is protected as a constitutional absolute, and late-term abortions, grisly as they are, enjoy substantial protection as well. What that looks like in practice is Gosnell's slaughterhouse. We should not pretend that this evil does not extend past the Philadelphia city limits. If you would have an unlimited abortion franchise, then you will have all that goes with it, including the pitiless knife of Kermit Gosnell." --National Review

From Patriot Post,  May 15, (probably investigated by the IRS since “patriot” is in its name)

Liberal bias in the local library

    

Very appropriate. An information donkey. I don't know about school librarians, but public librarians are 223:1 liberal to conservative (based on a 2004 survey by party). In case you don't think that affects what is purchased for your local library, I have a story to tell you about the IRS. Library purchases can make or break a publisher. So that in turn affects which authors get contracts to publish.

God bless you, Planned Barrenhood

There are four scandals haunting the White House right now--Benghazi, IRS, Department of Justice, and EPA (charging conservatives fees that "greens" don't pay). But a 5th one should take precedence--the Kermit Gosnell trial and verdict. All this other news has swept it under the rug.

Although this is Pennsylvania's responsibility, when Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator, he voted against legislation that would have protected children born alive after botched abortions on a number of occasions. He hasn't even commented on this butcher--and when speaking at Planned Barrenhood, said, "God bless you!"

From the Kitchen Cabinet—News and Opinion by women for women

“Tea Party groups, led in many US communities by WOMEN who scraped grocery money together to file as non-profit organizations, had their paperwork SHELVED while liberal political groups were rapidly approved by IRS Cincinnati and Washington offices.

Do you really believe IRS agents and lifetime bureaucrats would think to do this on their own? Put their jobs on the line to harass tea party folks? In 2011? Not even an election year? This was not the brainchild of the IRS or even IRS senior officials. This was the ground strategy of the Barack Obama 2012 Re-election campaign.

And now, in an age when the front page is dominated by debates over Gay Rights and the Obama administration's liberal mandate to DELIVER them on his watch, suddenly America is talking about a new kind of CIVIL RIGHTS violation: of THE MIDDLE CLASS.”

https://www.facebook.com/changewashington

Gosnell in whiteface—George Tiller

“ObamaCare is being constructed by Kathleen Sebelius, former governor of Kansas and friend and collaborator with the late George Tiller, who was assassinated by a distraught anti-abortion activist in a case well-covered and widely publicized across the country. Tiller, another specialist in late-term abortion, was no different in essence from Gosnell. It is claimed that he destroyed the lives of his victims while their heads were still in the vaginal canal, making the process legal (according to Justice Ruth Ginsburg, among others). His premises were cleaner, and he had superior methods of disposing of the remains, not finding it necessary to mince them and flush them down the toilet. But he was a Gosnell in whiteface all the same.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/if_obama_had_an_uncle.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook#ixzz2TM65S8jb

But hard to swallow

I don’t really believe he’ll be impeached—FDR, JFK, LBJ all used the IRS to go after their enemies, but only the Republican Nixon resigned. He actually cared about the reputation of the office.

What goes around. . .

The media  ignored the Tea Party complaints that the IRS was targeting them--3 years.  The media wouldn't dig into the Benghazi story.  Now that DoJ is targeting journalists, whoa Nellie!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/acting-irs-commissioner-repeatedly-failed-to-tell-congress-that-tea-party-groups-were-targeted/2013/05/13/4009e25c-bc2c-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html

EPA and FOIA

Another scandal for Obama administration? The EPA waives fees for leftist environmental groups under Freedom of Information Act, but not for conservative groups who sometimes have to go to court to get information. IRS, DoJ, WH, State, now EPA. Who's next? http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/washingtonbureau/2013/05/14/conservative-group-accuses-epa-of.html

Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) found that the EPA waived fees on 75 out of 82 FOIA requests made by environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace. But it denied fee waivers on 14 of CEI’s 15 FOIA requests. Other conservative groups also were often denied fee waivers, according to CEI.

Change one letter

PREP for sex

Obamacare funnels $75 million annually into Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP), “which must be used exclusively for Planned Parenthood-style “comprehensive” sex education programs where no type of sex is wrong and the only sexual behavior PP considers “unsafe” is becoming pregnant.”

“Hidden within Obamacare, Section 2953, Title II, Subtitle L : “Personal responsibility education” states that $75 million a year will be divvied to public schools across the nation under the covert name PREP which stands for Personal Responsibility and Education Programs.

PREP is the cover for Planned Parenthood’s involvement in sex education in public schools. Planned Parenthood has become a “partner agency” with certain middle schools to assist in developing curriculum that explains how to maintain a good sexual health and working with national marketing firms to create adverts that appeal to teenagers.”

http://www.occupycorporatism.com/how-the-dark-side-of-the-abortion-industry-influences-policy-education/

You’re not paranoid if they really are out to destroy you!

Just low level IRS workers in Cincinnati, Ohio

Since 2009 they’ve been working on this.  But it was a bit above those Cincy workers pay grade.

“So where did "lower level IRS employees in Cincinnati" get the idea to impede Tea Party Constitution groups?

Let's review the possibilities: President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi; Former DNC Head Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Senator John McCain, Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO); New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg; USA Today's DeWayne Wickham; MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Chris Matthews; ABC's Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos; The New York Times' Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, Nicholas Kristof and Thomas Friedman; The Washington Post's Richard Cohen, Dana Millbank, and Eugene Robinson; and the Editors of the Wall Street Journal.

And these are just the tip of the iceberg, the fountainhead of the fabricated cascade of false information meant to destroy the Tea Party movement, Patriot, Constitution and Small Government groups.”

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/those_crazy_lone-wolf_low_level_irs_employees.html#ixzz2TIAVyhSE

Morphing

White House Briefing—going badly for Carney

Poor Jay Carney. Benghazi is far worse than Watergate, and yet he tells US to check our history (Tuesday, May 14, press conference). Has to stand in front of the nation which doesn't believe a word and then gripe that the Benghazi tragedy is just a political side show by the Republicans, that the IRS story is an "if" and that Obama doesn't support the leaks snooping by Department of Justice and Eric Holder, his best bud.  He lamely whines about the "worst recession since the Great Depression." (That's code for this is all Bush's fault.)

Obama made clear yesterday he has been lying through his teeth about who did what when by "rewriting" the history of the last 8 months. On Sept. 25 he was still blaming a video for Sept. 11 attack. Hillary blamed a video in “comforting” the families and swore to get the film maker; Rice blamed a video on 5 talk shows. They all knew it wasn't true. Then he repeated that lie when he knew it was a planned terrorist attack and not a video when he told it on Sept. 25 at the United Nations, which he circuitously denied yesterday:

"That is what we saw play out in the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. Now, I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity. It is an insult not only to Muslims, but to America as well -- for as the city outside these walls makes clear, we are a country that has welcomed people of every race and every faith."

Why doesn’t Obama speak out about the biggest news story? Because

When Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator, he voted against legislation that would have protected children born alive after botched abortions on a number of occasions. That's why there is not a peep from him about Kermit Gosnell (who was found guilty of 4 murders yesterday)  snipping the spine of born alive babies. He believes in the intention of the abortion, not the result. He was quick to speak out on an gay NBA player who'd hid in the closet for 20 years, quick to call Sandra Fluke about her demands for birth control at a Catholic university, and quick to malign the Boston police on behalf of his buddy Louis Gates, whose neighbors had called about a break-in.  But defend a helpless baby? No.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/13/kermit-gosnell-found-guilty-murder

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/jury-in-kermit-gosnell-trial-hung-on-two-charges/2013/05/13/b4444bdc-bbda-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/19/gosnell-abortion-clinic-worker-admits-snipping-spines-of-10-babies/

Worse than Nixon’s enemies list—and much bigger

Maybe the news about the IRS being used as a personal tool for the Obama campaign to put up road blocks for fund raising for patriot groups will cover up the news about 1) Benghazi cover up and gun running, 2) Department of Justice snooping and listening in on reporters, 3) the ghoulish Kermit Gosnell abortion murders, and 4) the news that 17 of the nation’s largest insurance companies indicate that with Obamacare, on average, premiums will grow 100% when the law is fully implemented.  Some will soar more than 400%.

Some conservative talking heads are speculating that with three huge scandals (not counting the insurance cost increase since we’ve known for years that would be a disaster), the Obama administration is in trouble. I don't see it. Democrats are incredibly loyal, much more so than Republicans. I used to be a Democrat and when I became a Republican in 2000 it was a big shock to see what wafflers Republicans are since Democrats will go to the grave wrong, but proud to be a Democrat.  Romney lost in 2012 not because of the youth vote or the Hispanic vote but because Republican and Libertarian Christians stayed home and pouted. It's very frustrating. There's a streak of perfectionism in evangelical and fundamentalist Christians that won't be moved.

It’s hard to keep track

IRS snooping on conservatives.  Justice snooping on reporters. Cover ups of Benghazi.  Whistleblowers intimidated.   But . . . he has enough time to call and congratulate a gay basketball player for finally coming out of the closet after a season in which he scored 4 points.

The President is in CYA mode

It's not often you can catch the President in 3 lies in just one paragraph of a news conference. Who believes him that the IRS is an independent agency? It's part of the Treasury Dept. which means (his) Executive branch. He said, "if it is true," but the IRS representative already admitted it late Friday afternoon hoping it would be buried the the week-end news dump. He said he read about the IRS scandal in the newspaper, but his chief counsel had known for 3 weeks that the sh*t was about the hit the fan. Where in the world is this guy when all hell's a popping and why do his staff hide things from him? He knew about the gay basketball player who made 4 points last year and called him.

The earliest reports of harassment by the IRS began in the fall of 2009 by patriot groups, 9/12 groups and others. Lengthy forms requested not only names of board members, but names of their family members; screen shots of their participation at social networking sites. Some of these groups are very small--maybe 20 people in a community. So they just didn't apply for the tax exempt status rather than hire a lawyer. It was pure intimidation and harassment and against the law.

Have a lovely day

Had a lovely brunch at our daughter’s home.  Photos are just so-so.

In 2000 the Dutch legalized prostitution

“Twelve years on, and we can now see the results of this experiment. Rather than afford better protection for the women, it has simply increased the market. Rather than confine the brothels to a discrete (and avoidable) part of the city, the sex industry has spilt out all over Amsterdam — including on-street. Rather than be given rights in the ‘workplace’, the prostitutes have found the pimps are as brutal as ever. The government-funded union set up to protect them has been shunned by the vast majority of prostitutes, who remain too scared to complain.

Pimps, under legalisation, have been reclassified as managers and businessmen. Abuse suffered by the women is now called an ‘occupational hazard’, like a stone dropped on a builder’s toe. Sex tourism has grown faster in Amsterdam than the regular type of tourism: as the city became the brothel of Europe, women have been imported by traffickers from Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia to meet the demand. In other words, the pimps remained but became legit — violence was still prevalent but part of the job, and trafficking increased. Support for the women to leave prostitution became almost nonexistent. The innate murkiness of the job has not been washed away by legal benediction.”

Sin has a way of doing that—makes the bad worse.

You can cross Holland off the cruise list.

When he was a Senator, he grasped the problem

Liturgical abuses in Latin America

“In Latin America, beside the beautifully and carefully celebrated Masses associated with the major popular devotions, liturgical abuses are still alive and constitute a massive problem in the region.

It is not a situation of omitting or changing the rubrics here and there. The liturgical problems are much more serious. They consist of events like priests “concelebrating” the Mass with the youth at the rhythm of tropical songs in Colombia; “consecrating” cakes with Guayaba marmalade in Venezuela; a “reggae” Mass in Panama; or a priest celebrating with vestments portraying Batman and Robin while squirting holy water with a green-and-red water pistol in Mexico.”

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/pope-francis-and-the-liturgy/#ixzz2SzPmeBDx

Welcome to happy clappy Protestantism.

Democrats aren’t blind—just devoted followers

"The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews." [Today's Washington Post] Now, do you recall the comments Obama made at OSU’s graduation  a week ago about those who fear tyranny in government? And the IRS goes after patriot groups because they aren't leftists?

I was a Democrat when Nixon fell from grace and resigned. Watergate was a burglary; no one died. He did the honorable thing—something unknown in government today—to protect the reputation not of himself, or his party, but the office of the presidency.  I didn't know a single Republican who stood by him--they were ashamed that such disgrace had fallen on their guy. Not so with Democrats and Benghazi. I don't know a single Democrat who has abandoned their slavish devotion to Obama. It reminds me of abused wives/girlfriends who keep going back for more after they get out of the hospital and he's released from jail.

Waiting for new glasses

My cataracts are gone, but I’ll need some sort of prescription so that I don’t have to carry around reading glasses (currently using 3 pair, and seem to always be looking for them).  The first few weeks my close up vision was fine, but has slipped some, and distance still has some astigmatism.  When we were at the lake 2 weeks ago, I found a pair from 1989. I’m still adjusting to color—particularly anything in the blue spectrum. According to what I’ve read, some people with cataract removal experience more purple.

Synonyms of hubris

Self-important, proud, vain, smug, arrogant, high and mighty, superior, stuck-up, snobbish, self-satisfied, bigheaded, narcissistic.

Friday Family Photo—Mother’s Days past

From my daughter, 1976, Texas Ware Melamine

From my son, 1977, same project, probably the same teacher.

My handmade card for my mother, probably 1947, second grade in Forreston, Illinois.  Folded with message inside. Not sure who would have cut out the silhouette.

The guest room closet re-do

We’re remodeling the two upstairs bathrooms which has meant rearranging everything in the closets.  The guest room closet will now just hold out of season coats, the Christmas boxes, and some storage.  For the storage, I’ve purchased matching green boxes, the same color as the the guest bath walls.  Now, I’m repacking things into them.

Repacking the boxes of cards and letters saved over 50 years—now that’s a job.  I’ve done this before, and sent back to the writer, many letters.  But there are many notes and letters inside these cards.  For some reason I was writing little notes to my husband back in the 70s. I don't know the dates or situations (some sounded serious). I did find this written on the back of an envelope.

A young mother was trying to comfort her daughter when her pet kitten died, saying, "Remember, dear, Fluffy is up in heaven now with God." "But Mommy," the girl sobbed, "What in the world would God want with a dead cat?"

How many pregnancies result from assault rape?

Let's look, using the figure of 200,000 rapes each year—and that’s a high figure (figure for 2004-2005 was around 64,000). 

• Of the 200,000 women who were forcibly raped, one-third were either too old or too young to get pregnant. That leaves 133,000 at risk for pregnancy.
• A woman is capable of being fertilized only 3 days (perhaps 5) out of a 30-day month. Multiply our figure of 133,000 by three tenths. Three days out of 30 is one out of ten, divide 133 by ten and we have 13,300 women remaining. If we use five days out of 30 it is one out of six. Divide one hundred and thirty three thousand by six and we have 22,166 remaining.
• One-fourth of all women in the United States of childbearing age have been sterilized, so the remaining three-fourths come out to 10,000 (or 15,000).
• Only half of assailants penetrate her body and/or deposit sperm in her vagina,¹ so let's cut the remaining figures in half. This gives us numbers of 5,000 (or 7,500).
• Fifteen percent of men are sterile, that drops that figure to 4,250 (or 6,375).
• Fifteen percent of non-surgically sterilized women are naturally sterile. That reduces the number to 3,600 (or 5,400).
• Another fifteen percent are on the pill and/or already pregnant. That reduces the number to 3,070 (or 4,600).
• Now factor in the fact that it takes 5-10 months for the average couple to achieve a pregnancy. Use the smaller figure of 5 months to be conservative and divide the above figures by 5. The number drops to 600 (or 920).
• In an average population, the miscarriage rate is about 15 percent. In this case we have incredible emotional trauma. Her body is upset. Even if she conceives, the miscarriage rate will be higher than in a more normal pregnancy. If 20 percent of raped women miscarry, the figure drops to 450 (or 740).

Now, then, many women who become pregnant through assault rape choose not to compound the crime by killing the baby, and they don’t abort.

http://www.christianliferesources.com/article/rape-pregnancies-are-rare-461

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/context-and-variation/2012/08/20/here-is-some-legitimate-science-on-pregnancy-and-rape/

V-E Day, May 8, 1945

Slavery is bigger now than in the 18th century

Tomorrow night Glenn Beck will be doing a special on sex slavery, and reported on the Cleveland case tonight of the 3 girls held hostage for a decade, but the special had been in the works for months. We like to think slavery in this country ended with the Civil War, but in fact, it's a bigger business today than in the 18th and 19th century. It involves a lot of children, and includes boys for the gay trade. The newer term is "Trafficking in persons," but slavery is slavery, and it also includes labor. Julie Clark of UALC has a special ministry for releasing women from prostitution. Her organization is called DOMA. http://www.domaconnection.org/learn/who-we-are/

Gay babies were aborted?

"In the eight days since NBA player Jason Collins announced he was gay, the news media have covered the story in 2,381 places. But in the first eight days of the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his “House of Horrors” abortion business, the media covered the story in 115 places, meaning that Collins’ “gay” news received more than 1,970.4% more news coverage." CNSNews.com.

About 40% of the babies in Gosnell’s clinic were black, and we can assume at least 2% were potentially gay, since that's the national figure. Maybe the pro-life people just aren't using the right argument that a murderer of babies deserves more new coverage than a basketball player who made 4 points his last season and needs some publicity to help his career.

The President’s pep talk while campaigning

PRESIDENT OBAMA to OSU graduates: "Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. . . they suggest that our brave, and creative, and unique experiment in self-rule is somehow just a sham with which we can't be trusted."  May 5, 2013

Is Obama talking about how American history and political science are taught in public schools and our colleges that drives parents to home school? Is he talking about FDR imprisoning almost a million German, Italian and Japanese American citizens during WWII? Or is he talking about broken treaties with Indians? Is he talking about Bill Ayers and some of the Communists in his White House and our elite universities who constantly bad mouth America? Or maybe Rev. Wright where he attended church for 20 years and said, God Damn America in his sermons. It was governments killing their own citizens in the 20th century that caused the biggest loss of lives--not wars between competing political systems. Citizens always need to be vigilant.

What’s best in Columbus?

           

We've been living in Columbus since 1967. This morning when I read the (614) magazine "ColumBest" I felt like I moved here yesterday. Only recognized a few places/people voted Best with which I'm personally familiar. Like OSU, First Watch, Old Bag of Nails, Schmidt's, Wexner Center for the Arts, Mid-Ohio Food Bank, Market District, Huntington Bank, and Carfagna's. You can pick up a copy (free-circ) at Giant Eagle, and probably other stores.

That said, the last page (p. 134) editorial (hard to read white print on black paper) is beyond naive. It's about the Boston bombing. Not a word about what motivated the Tsarnaev brothers, and we all know what that was--Islamic jihad. He uses the analogy of Americans feeling like they live in a pressure cooker to the bomb fixings they used.  Really lame. He called them shysters, charlatans, and sh*ts. Deluded, foul and misguided. Every name except what they are. Shame on you David S. Lewis for not digging deeper.

Hand hygiene is not a no-brainer

“Healthcare workers also need to learn the proper technique for hand hygiene. People are supposed to rub their hands together for a minimum of 15 seconds when washing their hands. When Renee Watson, RNC, BSN, CPHQ, CIC, manager of infection prevention and epidemiology at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta asks physicians and staff to mime rubbing their hands together to wash hands in a training session, however, they usually drop off around seven or eight seconds. Even people who think they wash their hands for the full 15 seconds typically do not meet that minimum in the training exercise, she says. Awareness of both the proper technique and one's execution of this technique is therefore critical to ensuring hand hygiene compliance and preventing infections.

Another important lesson is the difference between soap and water and alcohol sanitizers, according to Ms. Watson. Alcohol hand sanitizers are more effective at eliminating pathogens except when hands are visibly soiled, when the caregiver has blood and body fluids on their hands or when they have worked with specific organisms that require mechanical removal — for which soap and water should be used, she says. “

4 essentials of hand hygiene

What if we’d had a truthful media on Sept. 11, 2012

Watergate created a storm that brought down Nixon. No one was killed. He just wanted to win reelection so there was a cover up of a break in. Obama and his staff did something much worse on Sept. 11, 2012, and tried the same cover up, only the consequences were much more serious. The media kept quite. "What difference does it make," "It was a long time ago." His followers are so blind, I suspect he could have been reelected even if he'd told the truth.

The President’s daughters have protection—the Secret Service

Plan B is for everyone else.

The President isn't the least bit worried that his teen daughter will buy the legal drug levonorgestrel to prevent pregnancy after illegal intercourse now available with his blessings to very young teens OTC without parental knowledge. They've got the protection of the Secret Service on their dates. That trumps any birth control. I don't think any guy will be taking advantage of their youth and inexperience. It's the same attitude he has toward guns--he and not thee.

Plan B because common sense is uncommon

Washington Redskins

While debating the issue of the Washington Redskins as an appropriate name for the team, maybe more people should look at what the federal and state governments actually DO to REAL Native Americans who have been receiving cradle to grave government assistance for all of my life time. The only ones who do well are those who choose to either be a government lackey bureaucrat, or leave the subsidies behind and live free and responsible in society without Big Brother hovering.  But then that's true of most people; their situation is just a little more obvious since it's been going on longer. Look at any government program for health, education, military, children, nutrition, elderly, housing, etc. and there's a special siphon for Native Americans plus thousands of grants to non-profits who live off these Americans.

Disparities in health. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/other/su6001.pdf

Homeland security. http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/iga/dhs-tribal-resource-guide.pdf

Did you know we have tribal colleges and universities? http://www.collegefund.org/userfiles/2011_FactSheet.pdf

Even with all the gov't assistance, there's no accurate way to compile statistics because these are separate from other gov't programs. http://childwelfare.ncaiprc.org/documentlibrary/2010/03/CA&N%20briefing%20paper.pdf

One thing I noticed in reading about the various programs serving American Indians was that the statistics were rather old, considering how carefully watched they are by the government.

Things have changed since I attended the U. of I.

This is a photo of University of Illinois students studying for finals. I have no idea where this is on campus, because it certainly wasn’t there in the 60s.

The House of Representatives

No constitutional requirement limits the size of the House to 435 representatives (as set in 1911), in fact, if we followed the Constitution (one representative for each 30,000 citizens) we'd have over 9,000 representatives in the House. But that's the sort of power that was intended for us, the people. The power now resides in the Presidency first, and the Courts second. The people come in last. In the 18th century Americans didn't want a king; now apparently they do. We’re upside down.

“I love you,” Obama said.

By now you've heard the "God bless you" ending of Obama's speech at Planned Parenthood, the country's largest abortion provider, last Friday. Have you heard his first sentence? "I love you." It was off teleprompter and shouted out as he greeted his enthusiastic, cheering sycophant audience. He thrives on this type of devotion--and these days, with an anemic economy, expanding wars, smudged red lines, what's a guy to do but get cheers from the lowest common denominator? Is there another leader in history so eager to personally destroy his subjects before they can vote against him? His denigration of marriage and putting road blocks at every turn for Christians whether in health care or the military or education is just the unraveling of what we used to be.

Planned Parenthood performed 333,964 abortions in fiscal 2011, an increase of 4,519 from the 329,445 abortions it did in 2010. Abortion is not its only service, but it is the big money maker. PP assets are $1.2 billion, and still it gets our tax dollars.

Obama didn't use the word "abortion" even once in his 12 minute speech, but used "health" 27 times. Planned Parenthood is not about health--except in the sense that the Gulag was a hospital, or Buchenwald a rest home for tired workers soon to die of overwork.

http://spectator.org/archives/2013/04/29/obamas-planned-parenthood-love

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0427/With-Planned-Parenthood-speech-Obama-jumps-into-abortion-debate

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/04/30/unholy-alliance-between-obama-democrats-and-planned-parenthood/

Spine snipping doesn’t count as murder

Anyone can see this is a baby

Abortion at 23 weeks is not uncommon.  The child can live outside the womb.  Sure it needs help to survive, but so do I and I’m 73.

In Columbus, the three abortion clinics have all had health and code violations.  They are not safe for women, and they are lethal for the babies in their wombs.

Jason Collins made 4 points last season

           

This could be a real career boost, but did he really need the president jumping in?

The growing threat in Syria

Assad's thugs vs. jihadi thugs (of various bands). A monster against demons and devils. What we do know for sure is Obama will not make a decision. He's had more Americans killed in Afghanistan in 4 years than Bush in 8 just from his waffling in 2009. I don't want more Americans to die for these people's civil wars and idiotic beliefs. Let the Arabs go in and help. Let them find there are no WMD.

The great [sic] Thomas Friedman in 2003 recommended for the 40 year dictatorship in Syria: “if President Bush really wants to achieve his objectives in Iraq, he may have to sup a little with Yasir Arafat, the Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/09/opinion/long-spoon-diplomacy.html?ref=basharalassad

Buttermilk bacon pralines

I haven’t tried this recipe, but it certainly sounds yummy.

Ingredients

1 cup granulated sugar

1/2 cup packed light brown sugar

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 tablespoon light corn syrup

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon coarse salt

4 tablespoons butter

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup chopped pecans

1/2 teaspoon orange zest

4 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled

Directions

1. In a heavy deep saucepan, combine the sugars, the buttermilk, corn syrup, baking soda and salt. Cook slowly over medium heat for about 20 minutes, until the mixture reaches 235 on a candy thermometer.

2. Remove from heat and add butter, vanilla, pecans, orange zest and bacon and beat with a wooden spoon until creamy. Be very careful - this stuff is HOT.

3. Drop by teaspoonsful onto a silicone mat or buttered parchment paper. Let stand for 30 minutes or until cool and firm.

http://www.framedcooks.com/2011/06/buttermilk-bacon-pralines.html

Architects and Engineers may be losing money through inefficiency

June Jewell, a CPA and owner of Acuity Business Solutions consulting, says the architectural, engineering and environmental firms she works for easily lose $100,000 each year through inefficient and ineffective practices.

“Of course, sometimes the waste is much, much more – and this goes for larger and smaller businesses,” says Jewell, author of “Find the Lost Dollars: 6 Steps to Increase Profits in Architecture, Engineering, and Environmental Firms,” (www.FindTheLostDollars.com). “The problems are usually so fundamental to a business that they will never see why and how they’re bleeding money; they’re too close.”

There are several nooks and crannies in which firms are apt to lack efficiency. Jewell reviews three general areas where most of these firms can turn unnecessary losses to gains:

• Company culture: While the culture may vary somewhat from one firm to another, architectural, engineering and environmental firms share some of the same characteristics. One is that their founders tend to go into business because they’re creative people who love what they do -- not because they’re business people. So they don’t focus on profits, and they tend to be casual managers with regard to employees’ time. Shifting the culture to a focus of being profitable is not only necessary for sustaining the business; it allows creative people to do more of what they love.

• Ineffective practices: Of course, there are many moving parts in an A&E firm, which means there are many potential areas for improvement. That includes customer service, time management, marketing, strategic planning, accurate budgets and estimates, and the cost of lost opportunities. Failure to create an accurate, meticulous job estimate, for instance, can have multiple consequences, from having disappointed clients to jeopardize projects to losing money because time, materials and other costs were not accurately forecast.

• Systems & IT: This is the third way to improve business management and increase profits. Technology is able to help companies leverage their resources more effectively, yet many of them are still using outdated software and non-integrated systems. By looking at systems as a strategic investment that can help them to be more competitive, they can realize a great return on investment (ROI) from their projects. While the transition from old to new software has its cost in time and work, the efficiency gained in future work production is worth it.

“I’ve worked with hundreds of A&E firms in my 28 years of consulting, and I see these shared problems so often, I offer what I call ‘the $100K Challenge,’ ’’ Jewell says. “That’s a guarantee that I can work with any business that’s doing a few million dollars a year in business and find $100,000 they’re losing in profits.”

In this post-recession economy, she says, it’s vital for firms to tune up their business management practices in order to thrive.

June R. Jewell is a CPA and CEO of Acuity Business Solutions and has written a book, Find the Lost Dollars.  Ginny Grimsley of News  and Experts supplied the article.

Media are criminally silent

Conventional wisdom isn’t too wise—by Harris R. Sherline

• Terrorism is best addressed by U.S. disarmament, negotiation, law enforcement and foreign aid.
• Nick Berg’s death was the fault of the American military.
• Abu Ghraib is an indictment of American culture.
• The Israelis are the real villains in the Middle East.
• People in other countries hate us for good reason.
• Islam is a religion of peace.
• Truth is relative and facts are not reliable.
• Columbine was the fault of the military industrial complex and the NRA.
• Racism is a Republican pastime.
• Most of the problems in the world can be laid at the doorstep of white American males.
• Hollywood is enlightened.
• Violence begets violence, except on TV and in movies and contemporary music.
• We invaded Iraq primarily to secure access to oil.
• It is criminal to expect people to work, earn a living, take care of their families and take responsibility for their own actions.
• Capitalism is obviously inferior to socialism.
• The American Republic is a failed democracy.
• 9/11 was something America deserved for her crimes against the third world.
• The U.N. will save us.
• Europeans are smarter and more sophisticated than Americans.
• President Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Condolezza Rice and Colin Powell are all liars.
• The earth is warming so we need to shut down industry and ride bicycles.
• The spotted owl is more important than jobs and wood products for home building and thousands of other products.
• Castro is just trying to do the right thing. If he has done anything wrong, it’s America’s fault.
• The killing fields in Cambodia were America’s fault.
• Sudan is America’s fault.
• The Israelis are squatters. They created a Palestinian ghetto.
• We should try to understand Hamas and Hezbollah because after all they are simply trying to free the faultless Palestinians.
• Americans are the bad guys.
• Christians are bigots.
• Radical Muslims are just different.
• The real reason for the Patriot Act is to erode our civil rights so the Republicans can take over.
• Republicans manipulate election results by electronically manipulating polling places.
• There is a vast right wing conspiracy to rule the world.
• Rwanda was just a misunderstanding, a lack of information, and confusion about the definition of “genocide.”
• Hillary Clinton would make a great president, because, well…just because, and she’s a woman.
• Tax cuts are only for the wealthy.
• Criminals just need more understanding.
• Entitlement programs emerging out of Johnson’s Great Society will solve the poverty problem.
• Who needs God when we have our own brains to rely upon!
• Public education should be in the exclusive hands of the NEA because they have master’s degrees.
• Everything is relative.
• Truth is an illusion.
• If you’re wealthy, you’re a pirate.
• There is no such thing as evil, except making a profit in business.
• Vietnam was Nixon’s war.
• God is a crutch manufactured by the intellectually lame.
• People in the Third World are always right so long as they oppose America.
• Tolerance is paramount, but it’s rational to be intolerant of conservatives and Christians because they’re either nuts or selfish or both.
• Diversity is to be celebrated as long as you agree with us.
• If you disagree with leftist philosophies you are an uneducated moron.
• This item appeared at American Daughter Media Center, July 13, 2011.  Harris was 85 in 2008, so I’m hoping he’s still writing, because there’s a lot of knowledge about conventional wisdom there.

Thank you Planned Parenthood, God bless You

You will never catch me fishing, but. . .

I thought this was a great photo.

The police have a lot more fire power than the citizens

This is what the Boston police had to track down 2 guys who maimed and killed with ordinary kitchen cooking tools.  They finally lifted the ban and a man went outside to smoke and found one of the brothers in his boat.  It is shocking that 2 terrorists managed to shut down a whole city and several suburbs and all we had was unarmed citizens (strict gun laws in Mass.) and police with tanks and machine guns.  Scary. I’m sure this has sent a message all over the world.

A Twelve minute speech

Cancers caused by CT scans?

My cousin includes little snippets of medical information in her weekly news to friends and relatives. This keeps my library skills sharp because sometimes I look at the original source—if not the source she quotes, which is usually for lay people, then the cited research. After so many years in a medical library, I just like that stuff.   So when I saw

“According to April 2013 “Health Alert”: CT scans=800 chest x-rays. Nuclear scans=2000 chest x-rays. Medicine causes 30,000 cancers annually. Drugs, medical procedures, surgeries and scans are the #1 cause of death in America every year.”

I decided to look it up.   Health Alert which may have cited the sources is a fairly common title, so I skipped that.   I haven’t found all of it, but I found several articles referring to a 2007 study, then found this editorial about CT scans in Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(22):2049-2050, which is a little easier to read than the research and provides some information on how the study on CT scans was done:

Although if they were using Medicare claims data, those patients mostly likely won’t be around in 20-30 years given that the reason they were having a CT scan in the first place might have put them at some sort of health risk.  Also, it would be interesting (and I might look) to see how common CT scans are for younger people who are much healthier than the over 65 demographic.   That said, Dr. Redberg’s advice about being cautious should be noted.

The other study by Bindman [free] noted in Archives reports  a patient could get as much radiation from one CT scan as 74 mammograms or 442 chest X-rays.  That’s less than cited in Health Alert, but still way more than one would expect.  You would certainly want to weigh the benefits of so much radiation. Bindman also noted that CTs used to be recommended only for the very sick, and are now often used for people who are basically healthy and therefore exposing them to a lot of risk.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-12-15-radiation15_st_N.htm

http://www.prevention.com/health/healthy-living/can-ct-scans-give-you-cancer

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/779527

Obama’s slobbering love letter to Planned Parenthood

From Bookworm Room

As long as we’ve got to fight to make sure women have access to quality, affordable health care, and as long as we’ve got to fight to protect a woman’s right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you’ve also got a president who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way. Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you.

And no Mr. President, this isn’t the 1950s and we’re not going back there.

The real Obama—second panel

God bless you, (Planned Parenthood) Obama said

Adrienne Ross, a black elementary school teacher writes on her Facebook page, “How Christians support President Obama is beyond me. Totally beyond me. And the moment I understand it, please pray (and slap) me back to truth. Pray for him? Absolutely--and I do. But supporting him would require overlooking his radical encouragement of infanticide and abortion (not to mention his other faulty philosophies), and how could I possibly?”

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http://www.freedomworks.org/

Why we need to continue praying

for those who work in the abortion industry. Former Planned Parenthood worker, Abby Johnson comments:

Four years ago, I sat at the head table of Planned Parenthood's annual gala. I sat there so proud of myself sitting next to Hillary Clinton and relishing in my "Employee Of the Year" award. I look back on that day and realize how lucky I am. I am so thankful for my family who never turned their backs on me. I am so thankful for a God who kept waiting on me to turn back to Him. I am thankful that He makes all things new. I am so thankful for those loving prolifers who prayed for me every day for eight years. And I am so thankful for all of you. Thank you for your prayers and loving me through this journey.

I'm praying for Diana to leave the abortion industry.

Thoughts on today’s library dedication

Former President George W. Bush closed his remarks at the opening of his Presidential Library with these important words (in the presence of President Obama). He choked up on the final sentence (as I do, too, with more hope than conviction!).

"In democracy, the purpose of public office is not to fulfill personal ambition. Elected officials must serve a cause greater than themselves.

"The political winds blow left and right, polls rise and fall, supporters come and go. But in the end leaders are defined by the convictions that they hold."

"I will always believe that our nation's best days lie ahead."

Janice Shaw Crouse

Will Congress and aides get an exemption?

Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.

The talks — which involve Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Obama administration and other top lawmakers — are extraordinarily sensitive, with both sides acutely aware of the potential for political fallout from giving carve-outs from the hugely controversial law to 535 lawmakers and thousands of their aides. Discussions have stretched out for months, sources said.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/obamacare-exemption-lawmakers-aides-90610.html#ixzz2RVQpLPoA

President Obama’s red line

Deadly gas in Syria? Let's not fall for this one again. Let's stay out of Muslim wars. They don't like us. It's their sandbox. Their religion. Their culture. We have nothing to offer them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/23/chemical-weapons-red-line-obama

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04/25/chuck-hagel-evidence-that-syria-has-used-chemical-weapons/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2191303/Obama-threatens-Syria-U-S-military-action-Assad-regime-crosses-RED-LINE-using-chemical-weapons.html

Obama has already expanded the wars in the middle east and he hasn’t resolved the ones we’re in.  He’s lost more military in Afghanistan in 4 years than Bush did in 8, probably because of the dawdling and diddling he did in 2009.  This is not a man you want to follow into war. He hates the military, and has never been a soldier. Bad. Bad.

Interview with the Bush women April 25, 2013

Enjoyed seeing them on NBC this morning.  Barbara Bush is as outspoken as ever.  Not a single thing she misses about Washington, she said.  Also on Jeb running for president? “There are other people out there that are very qualified and we’ve had enough Bushes.”  Baby Mila isn’t at the library opening, although 5 presidents are.

The link between autism and oral contraceptives

Birth control came around the same time that autism was diagnosed at around 1 in 10,000 and now, with widespread birth control use, the number of autism cases has skyrocketed. Is there a connection? I certainly think so--and it's in every flush that goes through the water system, so everyone gets it in combination with all the hormones in our food.

http://www.examiner.com/article/autism-and-birth-control-pills-what-is-the-connection

Oral contraceptives are a huge money maker for the pharmaceutical industry, and a huge political football for this president.  I doubt we will ever see large government grants to study the relationship.

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-02-04/opinions/36743431_1_contraceptive-coverage-religious-liberty-religious-employers

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/04/11/will-obamacare-get-you-free-birth-control

The opening of the Bush Center in Texas

George W. Bush's popularity is up. That happens with most presidents, but usually not in 5 years. History judges them.

Obama has helped that by not bringing the troops home, not closing GITMO, redefining terrorism as workplace violence, or just ignoring it, by taking credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden, when it was the "interrogation" techniques of the Bush era that provided the intelligence, by flubbing and lying about Benghazi, by dancing on the graves of the poor dead children of Sandy Hook for his personal political gain, by rushing to mega storm Sandy, which made no difference in the recovery and the victims suffered for months, by worsening race relations by constantly playing the race card, by raising taxes on everyone with his lies about healthcare, by crony capitalism worse than Bush-Cheney fans could have imagined which has enriched the "fat cats" he loves to criticize, and by exhibiting extremely poor taste in his family's hedonistic life style while so many people still suffer from the recession.

Yes, Bush will probably be glad to see him and shake the hand of the man who made America miss him.

Our culture approves abortion, looks down on adoption

From PDHC April Praise Report:

‘Molly (not her name) a 20-year-old woman, came to PDHC intent on having an abortion. She is in college and already has a baby. She's in a relationship, but her parents do not approve of her boyfriend. They've helped with her first baby and she was afraid that they would be unhappy and not want to help her again. We talked with Molly about her options and the importance of having an ultrasound done before she would make a decision. Molly was very upset during the appointment and cried. She felt torn. She didn't believe in abortion but felt she had no other choice. During the ultrasound, the nurse was able to find a heartbeat and dated the pregnancy at six weeks. Molly did not want to see the ultrasound screen and refused pictures. The nurse spoke with her about her concerns and shared resources that could help should she decide to continue the pregnancy. She left the appointment undecided. A few days later, our nurse called with the physician's review and Molly said that after talking things over more with her boyfriend she had decided to continue the pregnancy! Our nurse gave her more information about how to get started with prenatal care and other resources. She also invited her to come back to PDHC for maternity clothes and parenting classes. “

40-50 years ago this would have been a no-brainer.  She knows this is a sibling of her child; a grandchild of her parents; knows what it is to be a mother.  Why snuff out a life that others would welcome?

Let’s not shed more blood for Islamic civil wars

Civil war in Syria. Weapons of mass destruction. Gas poisoning. Hmmm. Haven't we heard that before? As a reason for going to war? Would it be different just because Obama is president, who incidentally, hasn't really gotten us out of Afghanistan and Iraq, and has lost more military in Afghanistan than Bush did. I'm really not willing to shed more blood for people who hate our culture, religion and way of life.

“American Muslims tell us that Islam is a religion of peace. Jihadist leaders abroad describe Islam as a religion of war against infidels. Who is correct? Both are correct.”

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/hutchison/130418

Step by step

“The U.S. Department of Education began operating on May 4, 1980, and things started to change. People’s patriotic behavior and protectiveness of their culture, of their language, of the capitalist system in general that made them the most prosperous nation on earth, began to erode more and more overtly. Among the culprits were teachers who advanced personal socialist agendas to impressionable youth who believed every word they said. “

http://usactionnews.com/2013/04/common-core-and-cscope-propaganda-in-education/

A lot of things happened in the 70s and 80s and education of children is just one component.  CSCOPE and Common Core need to be looked at very carefully in every community.  Expanding the role of the federal government into compulsory, tax-supported pre-schools needs to be stopped.

The media tried so hard

to mislead and smear.

Democrats voted for higher taxes on the poor by reelecting Obama

Everyone by 2015 will be paying more taxes under the President's plan--except of course, those who don't pay any taxes. Although even the poor get to pay more taxes for their cigarettes--the poor and less educated do not respond to price pressure so most will continue to smoke anyway.  Cigarette excise taxes are regressive--lower income smokers spend a disproportionate share of their income on cigarette taxes compared to smokers with greater incomes . In NY from 2003–2004 to 2010–2011, the percentage of income spent on cigarettes for smokers with annual incomes less than $30,000 more than doubled (11.6% to 23.6%). These taxes really hurt the poor--and the first tax Obama passed in 2009 was $1 on cigarettes.  He's not the first president to lie about taxes, but we've got more gullible voters these days. And they ARE educated.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043838

How two presidents reacted to tragedy and terrorism

The Tsarnaev Brothers were using guns and bomb all covered in the Massachusetts gun control laws.

Another stain remover recipe

1 tsp. Dawn dishwashing detergent
3-4 tablespoons of hydrogen peroxide
couple tablespoons of baking soda.
Scrub on with a scrubbing brush.

 

Massachusetts has the gun laws Obama wants for all of us

Monday Memories—The Family Circus

There was usually a Family Circus cartoon on my mother’s refrigerator.

Bishop Watterson High School

Students at Bishop Watterson High School in Columbus, Ohio are petitioning and organizing to have a gay teacher reinstated. Unless they wish to attend a government school, this is a bad idea. Unlike Protestants who protest and regroup at the slightest secular wind change, Catholics have a few more restrictions. Protestants get to have the burden of private interpretation of scripture and see the pope in the mirror every morning; Roman Catholics do not. The government has already destroyed the Catholic adoption agencies by insisting children be placed, not for their best interest, but the desires of the adopting couple. Let's not destroy a very fine school system by misguided beliefs about the purpose of sexuality.

The brothers Tsarnaev

People are being quick to judge the current administration for failures to apprehend the Tsarnaev brothers before they assembled their arsenal and bombs (in a state with strict gun control). I'll wait (surprise!). There are hundreds of plots foiled that we never hear of. It's a huge country; there are big cities; and how watched do we want to be to prevent this?

That said, if our media were more diligent and less worried about offending some ethnic group, and if they they took their eyes off Sarah Palin and the Tea Party once in awhile, they might actually be a help in protecting us. It makes me yearn for the days of the Watergate investigation and the Bush derangement syndrome. With the way the MSM portrays this country, sometimes I wonder if they are a hate group trying to discourage immigrants from coming here so they can hang on to all the good jobs.

And if the Obama Administration had not been so careless about classifying Ft. Hood and the recruitment office killings, it might have been able to send a stronger message about what the U.S. security forces would tolerate.

I really don't think you can learn explosives and bombs just using the internet. It takes some practice and support. Most people can't even light firecracker flares without getting hurt. I hope the FBI, DHS and police don't follow the President's reasoning that this is over. They've found the YouTube videos, and these aren't the only young men flexing their hatred for America.

Columbine anniversary April 20

Why does the left wing media like to portray Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold of the Columbine killings as white supremists? Apparently because it was April. The McVeigh killings were in April.  And he wasn’t part of a conspiracy either.  Or they need more chalk marks on the right side of the board. They were kids! They weren't bullied, they weren't outcasts, and they had good parents. The left just can't fathom evil, because they don't understand good.

Boston won’t give him a choice of words

Obama wouldn't call it terrorism, but Arkansas will.

"Senate Bill 630, which passed 35-0 and goes to the House, is known as “Andy’s Law” in honor of U.S. Army Pvt. William “Andy” Long of Conway, who was shot and killed outside a west Little Rock recruiting center in 2009. Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula of Jacksonville was wounded in the shooting rampage."

Andy was killed by Abdulhakim Muhammad an American Muslim who had traveled to Yemen and Somalia for training.  Survivors of the Ft. Hood massacre also have had no justice from Obama, who calls it "work place violence."

http://swtimes.com/sections/news/politics/arkansas-legislature-senate-approves-andy%E2%80%99s-law.html

What’s wrong with these people?

They are liberals.  And they were partially right; the brothers are white (ethnic Chechens although they never lived there), and one was a citizen of the USA, having come here as a child. I’m guessing if the citizen ever voted, it was for Obama.

Dina seems to be a few bales short of a full load.  Hitler’s one party system was called “National Socialism,” and the Columbine shooters were into Goth and video games and Timothy McVeigh was protesting the use of military force by the U.S. government in Serbia and Iraq, and the government attacked the Branch Davidian, a religious cult for gun infractions.

“The thinking, as we have been reporting, is that this is a domestic, extremist attack and officials are leaning that way largely because of the timing of the attack. April is a big month for anti-government and right-wing individuals. There’s the Columbine anniversary, there’s Hitler’s birthday, there’s the Oklahoma City bombing, the assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco.”

Dina Temple-Raston, NPR, whose salary is paid for with my tax dollars.

The Massachusetts gun laws

The Brothers Tsarnaev had an awful lot of fire power. Were they properly registered and licensed with fingerprinting and criminal background checks as their state required regardless of how and where the guns were acquired? And were their magazines limited to ten rounds as required by Massachusetts law? Or were they just two more criminals who ignore gun laws?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Massachusetts

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The Casabella flex duster

I've joined the 21st century. No more old socks and t-shirts. Today I bought a Casabella microfiber washable flex duster, and am having a blast flicking and picking up dust from lamps, computers, picture frames, cool air returns and stair banisters. http://www.neatlysmart.com/catalog/item.aspx?sku=72917&gclid=CPnsuZus2bYCFaVcMgodZB0AtA

I got a little too enthusiastic, and accidentally reset the thermostat dusting it. My husband came up from his office when it started heating up, and said, "Why did you reset the thermostat to 80?"

Follow the money

The trial of Kermit Gosnell, the ghoulish late term abortionist of Philadelphia,  must have the pro-abortion folks worried. Even though the main stream media didn’t cover it, the news is getting around through social media.  As in photos of babies’ feet in jars, and of spinal cords snipped.  For the first time I can remember, I'm hearing radio ads on behalf of Planned Parenthood. The word abortion is never used; nor birth control; or even reproduction. Just access to health. Breast cancer is higher in women who abort their first pregnancy; suicide rate is higher for women who abort. Whose health? Planned Parenthood’s. Follow the money. Abortion is its money-maker. And minorities its target.

Planned Parenthood has ridden the waves of taxpayer funding to millions of dollars in annual surpluses. Last year [2012], like many before it, Planned Parenthood saw a very comfortable income, reporting excess revenues exceeding $87 million and net assets of more than $1.2 billion. The Foundry