The chill factor today in Columbus is below –10, real temp about zero. Side streets and even some main streets (in Columbus) are a mess. We attended an event at the Columbus Art Museum, and was holding my breath that we wouldn’t get stuck. The museum is going through a massive construction, parking is limited, and side streets haven’t been plowed.
Or one. Me.
I've tried a recipe in my New Inglenook Cookbook (Brethren Press, 2013) and declare it tasty. It's baked French toast, but the mix is eggs and orange juice with the soaked bread baked in a glaze of butter and cinnamon. It was a camp recipe to serve 12 so I reduced it and left out the sugar, which was rather high.
10 eggs, beaten (I used one)
2 cups orange juice (I used 1/4 cup)
1 cup butter, melted (I used a Tablespoon)
1 1/2 cups of sugar (didn't use it)
1 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon (sprinkle)
24 slices thick-sliced crusty bread (I used 2 heels and one dried out bakery something)
Nancy Pelosi is worth $100 million; so it’s easy for her to tell others to quit their jobs.
Stop setting goals was the best advice book I’ve ever read—which I didn’t find until I retired. “Setting goals” is a creativity and thought killer for about half of us and yet we’re always told to do it or have it or accomplish it. I was a librarian and we tend to be problem solvers, not goal setters. The author, Bobb Biehl suggests “targets.” However, here’s a blog with a similar thought—and I see it’s based the same author, Bobb Biehl, “5 big picture questions and 9 accelerators.” I recognize the 9th accelerator from the "Stop setting goals" book. I made three New Year’s resolutions—measureable, easily accomplished and short time frame (January 31) and met them all. New ones will be built on that for February. Setting a goal for all of 2014 would have been impossible—at least for me.
1. What three changes will most please God?
2. What can I do to make the most significant impact for God in my lifetime? [I would change this to a specific time—like “in 2014” or the next 5 years]
3 What is the single best measurable indicator that I am making progress toward my dream?
4. What three measureable priorities will I accomplish before I die? [Again, I’d use a specific time frame. Several years ago I had lunch with a friend whom I hadn’t seen in ages. We had such a great time we decided to do it again in 2 weeks. Three days later she died.]
5. What three measurable priorities will I accomplish in the next 10 years? [I would shorten that to one year, or 5 years at the most. No one can know what 10 years will bring. Facebook is 10 years old. Five years ago would you have believed the NSA was collecting your phone information?]
If you’re launching a new project (many TT participants are writers or artists)
1 Name your single greatest strength.
2. Identify three decisions causing the greatest stress.
3. What is overwhelming me?
4. What is my impassable road block?
5. What should I resign from?
6. What can I postpone?
7. What things on my list can others do 80% as well?
8. What elephants are in my schedule?
9. Identify three things in the next 90 days I could do that would make a 50% difference.
I think the important words of this list are the numbers three, changes, indicator, priorities, decisions, schedule, and things. Specific and measureable. The word “impact” is a bit squishy for me, but if it works for you, go for it!
It's counter intuitive, but more birth control = more sex = younger age = more contraception failure = more pregnancies = more abortions = higher breast cancer risk + higher suicide risk = the real war on women. Sandra Fluke is building on her minute of fame to run for Congress as another know nothing, do nothing female using sex.
The trick word here is "expanded." For instance, under Bush SNAP eligibility was expanded, but Obama increased recruitment to the program. EITC, HEAP, TANF, Medicaid, SCHIP, disability, even Obama phones (phone assistance began under Reagan) etc. were all programs of other presidents. Lack of good jobs and reductions because of Obamacare has pushed more onto government benefits. What's new is people fleeing the workforce to apply for and get SS disability because he couldn't turn around the job situation.
What has expanded is the wait for veteran’s benefits. For welfare recipients, there is a 30 day wait to qualify for food stamps, or expedited, 7 days. Over 675,000 claims pending for veterans, 58% for over 125 days. Why are veterans required to wait? Haven't they already paid? Are the low income, unemployed a bigger voting block than disabled veterans?
Use this website, type in the address, and then stroll down the street. It’s approximate, but you can probably find it. Caution. Everything will look a whole lot smaller than when you lived there.
I was a Democrat much longer than I’ve been a Republican, and I suppose it’s that “conservative” mind set of the Republicans, but really, they just don’t know how to get in there and fight like a Democrat. They also don’t know how to plan or execute. Democrats are setting up country wide plans to accomplish what we all know—all elections are local. I get their newsletters and e-mails—I read the plans. Republicans, meanwhile, push away their only hope—conservatives.
Republicans will chase the Hispanic vote by caving on citizenship, border security and amnesty. But they'll flee from confirmed conservatives, Tea Party supporters and Libertarians who actually gave them the House in 2010 and many governorships. Who's a better bet for supporting Republicans in the long run? Certainly not illegal immigrants who always vote Democratic. The 1986 IRCA is a good example of bipartisanship, and look what it got us. Porous borders, more anchor babies, more low wage workers taking American jobs, and more Democrats.
In Ohio SB 193 has been called the “John Kasich Re-election Protection Act.” I found an early January article. Like many Republicans in Washington, Kasich was elected with the help of Tea Party and Libertarians to get rid of Gov. Strickland, and is now running the other way--away from his right wing supporters and trying to keep anyone who could run against him off the ballot.
The Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is the best source
for abortion statistics in the United States, reports, “Sixtyfour
percent of [abortion] providers offer at least some
second-trimester abortion services (13 weeks or later), and
23 percent offer abortion after 20 weeks. …11 percent
of all abortion providers offer abortions at 24 weeks.”
The institute also indicates that of the approximately 1.2
million abortions in the United States each year, some
18,150 are performed at 21 weeks or more. Of the 40 states
that reported in 2005 to the Centers for Disease Control,
32 states reported abortions of babies 21 weeks or older.
This means that every day in America, 50 babies the size
of a large banana are dismembered and decapitated – and
these include healthy babies of healthy mothers…and it’s
happening legally.
I’m not going to buy it, but if I were going to get a swim suit, it would be one like this. I think I gave away my last two and had never worn them.
This is in the L.L. Bean Spring 2014 catalog, or online.
I received "The New Inglenook Cookbook" (Brethren Press, 2013) for my birthday (arrived Friday for my September birthday). I have my mother's "Granddaughter's Inglenook cookbook" (Brethren Publishing House, 1942), and someone in the family may have the first one that was my grandmother's (1901). I don't do a lot of cooking that needs recipes anymore, but I love to read them. Also, I love looking at the names of the women who contributed the recipes. Still so many old Brethren names. I see "Sweet sour meatloaf" very similar to mine, which I hand out to new brides. Things have changed: Gluten free scones contributed by Elsie Holderread of McPherson, KS (2013) compared to Wieners in Creole Sauce by Mrs. Irva Kendrick Haney, Muscatine, IA (1942).
Also listed for a 1942 school lunch was cottage cheese and chopped pepper sandwiches with raw turnip strips. I don't know about other people my age, but cottage cheese was in everything at our house.
I think the reason women my mother's age (b. 1912) used so much cottage cheese is that their mothers made it from the skim milk left after separating the cream. My grandmother (b. 1876) used several pounds of real butter a week--I have her butter churn--and that's a lot of skim milk left over which needed to be made into something. I watched her working with (I thought it was a smelly mess) it, but by then she must have used purchased milk since they no longer had a cow. If all the liquid is pressed out (whey, which is then fed to the pigs), it is called farmer's cheese. This is from someone who knows nothing about it, so corrections are welcome.
The 2013 edition has a symbol for gluten-free. This one looks impossibly easy.
“The best peanut butter cookie” contributed by Sharon A. Walker (Brumbaugh) Clayton, Ohio, p. 290
After checking the internet, I see Ms. Brumbaugh Walker also contributed to a genealogy book (found it on WorldCat) and I'm sure if I dug a little deeper, we'd find some Brethren relatives in common from Montgomery County who came there from Pennsylvania.
But I'll tell you anyway. I've achieved my New Year's Resolutions. The trick is to set targets, not goals; make them achievable and measurable and for short time periods.
Update: For February, 4 hugs a day (suggested by my husband), 10 minutes a day on the Power Spin 210 U, and read the books of the Old Testament that begin with H. Achievable and measurable.1) Learn the names of the books of the Old Testament; 2) clean my office book shelves; 3) use my Power Spin 210 U at least 5 minutes a day. By January 31, 2014.
I'm trying to think of something for February.
The president’s SOTU list—pre-K education; “equal pay”, raising the minimum wage or extending unemployment benefits--is not going to address the real drivers of upwardly mobility--marriage before parenthood and a high school education. Head Start after 50 years shows no discernible advantage in learning, behavior, parenting practices, or health outcomes (at $8,000 per child it does supply a lot of jobs) so why add compulsory pre-k education? Marriage of her parents is a child's best hope to stay out of poverty, but welfare programs discourage mothers from marrying. Raising the minimum wage won't help people who haven't finished high school--it just decreases their employment opportunities. 92% of black teenagers in Chicago can’t find employment; how will raising the minimum wage help them? And the $10.10 minimum for government workers was a throw away since it is a tiny minority with few at that level.
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2013/04/10/black-unemployment-n1561096/page/full
And that new retirement vehicle? That’s puzzled everyone. Don't look at MYRA if you have a 401-K or IRA. It's government backed securities. The rate of return this past year would have been about 1.4%. If you need more to open an IRA, just save it in your piggy bank and then invest. On your worst day, you'll get more than 1.4%. The stock market has been going like gang busters since 2010. If there had been a MYRA, the return would have been dismal. http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2014/01/30/myra-not-needed-you-can-set-up-your-own-retirement-plans/
At one time the horse was a machine essential to truckers and transportation, farmers and taxis. 100 years ago it was predicted that the auto would replace the horse, and it did as a draft animal, but there are over 9 million horses in the U.S. now, up from the approximately 3 million in 1960, but down from the 25 million 100 years ago. At the turn of the last century it was predicted that the auto in 100 years would be cheaper than a horse--now that didn't happen.
http://www.americanequestrian.com/pdf/US-Equine-Demographics.pdf
http://www.theequestrianchannel.com/id3.html
“When discussing issues with liberals, it’s practically impossible to know what’s considered racist [or homophobic or sexist] and what isn’t. After all, these are people who see racism in dry asparagus and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Even the words Chicago, golf, crime, chair, Constitution and Founding Fathers are considered racist. Calling Juan Williams by his first name is also racist, as Newt Gingrich found out last year. For some, even God is a gun-toting white racist.” . . .
Who can forget a “chink in the armor,” or “niggardly,” or “handicapped,” or “woman,” or “traditional marriage,” --all of which are objected to by some victim group. In hip-hop or pop music, however, everything goes—bitch, nigger, slut, nappy headed ho, fag, etc. If Bush is shown in a cartoon with giant ears, it isn’t racist, just political, but for Obama it is racism. It’s OK to abort a child with an extra chromosome, but not OK to call him mentally retarded—use intellectually challenged. It’s OK for the government to bully citizens with threats of IRS audits of donor lists, but not OK for school children to tease each other. That only leaves the obese, unborn (it, product of conception, parasite) and the elderly as unprotected classes of words. A short list, isn’t it?
Swearing, cussing and four letter words describing genitals and bodily functions are OK with the left and right both.
http://www.conservativefiringline.com/a-short-list-of-words-not-c/
How much should a fast food worker who hasn't finished high school earn? Perhaps half of what a school teacher, who has a B.S. and M.S. earns? A public school teacher averages $39.27/hour or $55.52/hour with benefits. A teacher's average salary is higher than nurses and construction workers, and higher than college teachers per hour with benefits. But would they buy a big mac if those employees made $20/hour? Don't believe me? Scroll down to page 7 of the Bureau of Labor report for the details of your industry. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
The push for higher minimum wage is actually a push to, 1) close industries to punish their owners, 2) move more people to government programs to create more Democratic voters. At $15/hour, many low income workers would lose their government benefits (SNAP, EITC or Medicaid), and they make the same economic choices we all do based on the axiom, "Money talks, it says good-by," and they would probably chose not to work.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2013/10/slavery-per-capita-map-wo-arrows.jpg
This is not some soft, liberal, by-modern-standards definition of slavery. This is slavery. There are 30 million people living today as forced laborers, forced prostitutes, child soldiers, child brides in forced marriages or other forms of property. There are 60,000 right here in the United States – yes, really. This map shows the proportion of each country that is enslaved. It's highest in Mauritania, a shocking four percent, due in part to social norms tolerating the practice. A little more than one percent of people in India are enslaved, which translates to 14 million Indians living as slaves today. You can see the breakdown by numbers of slaves here.
“Of the more than four hours of taped discussion I conducted [on the topic of minimum wage increase], the producers chose to only use about 75 seconds of my comments. Of those, my use of the words “mentally retarded” (when Samantha Bee asked who might be willing to work for $2 per hour – a figure she suggested) has come to define the entire interview. I'm now receiving hundreds of angry e-mails and am being described in the media as a hateful bigot." Peter Schiff
But they also edited out the other group he noted willingly works below minimum--interns--and some work for nothing, or pay to work.
“The Daily Show” was never interested in an honest debate about the minimum wage. Nor is it concerned with the intellectually disabled, whom they have no qualms about offending if they can get a laugh. In fact, it's “The Daily Show” that wants to tell the intellectually disabled they are worthless, as they want to make it illegal for them to have jobs. I did not notice any intellectually disabled people working at “The Daily Show.” I’m sure many would jump at the chance, particularly if they were offered minimum wage or higher. But since they choose to pay their intellectually capable interns zero, why should they be expected to pay the intellectually disabled more?
This is how Huffington Post spun it on their headline. "Rich CEO Tells 'Daily Show' The 'Mentally Retarded' Are Maaaybe Worth $2 An Hour."
What Schiff is being charged with isn’t a $2/hour minimum, but not knowing the correct term is no long “mentally retarded,” rather “mentally challenged,” or “intellectually disabled.” It’s OK for the left to promote aborting 90% of babies with Down Syndrome, but don’t you dare call the survivors of the massacre “retarded.”
We could save a lot of money and hot air by just enforcing our old immigration law. By ignoring it, we now have many millions more illegal aliens within our borders, giving Mexico a good reason not to value its citizens, mostly brown skinned, who they send north for opportunity even though Mexico is rich in natural resources.
"The act I am signing today (Nov. 6, 1986) is the product of one of the longest and most difficult legislative undertakings of recent memory. It has truly been a bipartisan effort, with this administration and the allies of immigration reform in the Congress, of both parties, working together to accomplish these critically important reforms. Future generations of Americans will be thankful for our efforts to humanely regain control of our borders and thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred possessions of our people: American citizenship.” President Ronald Reagan
See how well bi-partisanship works?
I'm watching a movie at home. Don't do that very often. "Seasons of Gray: A modern day Joseph story." It’s excellent, and I think would be appropriate for your small group or Sunday school class, or to introduce your non-church friends to the Biblical story of faith, reconciliation and forgiveness. As the producer and editor says, “We want to show how God uses for good the things man intends for evil. We’re excited about the film getting a chance to bring this message to a broader audience.”
Brady Gray is the favored son of a two-time widower on a Texas ranch, and dad makes things tough for him by showing favoritism. He has dreams. He's forced off the ranch by his jealous brothers, after a violent beating and branding. He hangs on to his faith. Brady makes a new life for himself, then is accused of sexual assault and thrown in jail. Very touching jail scenes as he becomes accepted by the other inmates. In his darkest moments Brady still trusts God.
Small budget, good acting (good looking, too). Don't confuse it with the 50 shades of gray, this is a faith based film. It was produced with support from Watermark Community Church in Dallas. “Seasons of Gray” is “the culmination of a nearly decade-old dream by former Watermark staff member Paul Stehlik, now a missionary in Africa, to share biblical stories through the medium of film, updated in a modern cultural context for contemporary audiences.” This film is a great start. I loved the fresh telling of an old, old story.
The DVD is now available. If I can talk the librarian into it, there will be a copy in the UALC church library.
Review: Dallas Star
I've been blogging for 10 years, but even so, nothing has made it easier than Windows Live Writer. I write my draft, it checks my spelling and grammar, let's me download the photos, and check the labels. If I copy something from another online source which has links, it picks up the links for me. Then I hit publish. It retains the drafts in case I find a mistake after I've posted it. I've become dependent and hardly know how to code or revise my template anymore.
http://www.hanselman.com/.../DownloadWindowsLiveWriter201...
Americans are not poor due to an income gap or rising income inequality—that rate has been fairly stable over the years (also the poverty stats don’t count all the 79 means tested programs).
Here's the research, Mr. President. It's behavior and choice. People aren't poor because others are rich.
"If you do these [four] things, it’s almost impossible to remain poor:
1. Finish high school,
2. Get a job,
3. Don’t have children until you get married.
Those who do these things have only a 2 percent probability of remaining in poverty and a 75 percent probability of joining the middle class." John Goodman
The only new idea the left seems to have is universal preschool. (They don’t know how to reform any existing programs, so why not throw money after one more?) But the more common tactic (e.g., Paul Krugman) is to use inequality as an excuse for enacting the traditional liberal agenda — deficit spending, minimum wage increase, more unemployment compensation. If you think any of that is going to solve the fundamental problem, I know a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale.
Remember welfare reform of the mid-90s? Even a job, any job, reduces the poverty rate. Wealth transfer doesn’t solve poverty.
"The poverty rate among full time workers is 2.9 percent as compared with a poverty rate of 16.6 percent among those working less than full time and about 24 percent for those who don’t work. Unfortunately, the percentage of adult males working has been declining for decades. The work rate among young black males is below 50 percent. By contrast, when single mothers substantially increased their work rates in the mid-1990s, the poverty rate among mother-headed families reached its lowest level ever.. .
We already spend more than enough money on means-tested programs for poor and low-income people to bring them all out of poverty. There were about 46.5 million people in poverty in 2012, a year in which spending on means-tested programs was around $1 trillion. If that money were divided up among the poor, we could spend about $22,000 per person. For a single mother and two children, that would be over $65,000. The poverty level in 2013 for a mother and two children is less than $20,000. So this strategy would work, but giving so much money to young, able-bodied adults would not be tolerated by the public. Besides, if government gave this much cash to non-workers, many low-wage workers would quit work so they too could collect welfare.”
Ron Haskins, http://www.brookings.edu/.../19-war-on-poverty-what-went...
Watch this SOTU response. One of the best you'll see.
http://allenbwest.com/2014/01/incredible-video-black-chicago-sotu-response/
1. St. Louis
2. St. Augustine
3. San Francisco
4. San Antonio
5. San Diego
6. Santa Barbara
7. Santa Clara
8. Santa Ana
9. Santa Maria
10.Santa Monica
11. St. Paul
And then the not so well known
12. St. Joseph, Illinois
13. St. Mary’s City, Maryland
I have visited 1,3,4,5,6,9,10,11 and 12. That I can remember. We were in Maryland a few years ago and so St. Mary's City is a possibility. This shows the Catholic Spanish and French influences.
And there are many more cities, states, rivers, parishes and counties named for saints. But. . .I only needed 13.
Los Angeles isn't named for angels, but for Mary. "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reyna de los Angeles" (although it's a little murky).
Sacramento is named for the sacraments (after the river), but that's not its original name.
Santa Cruz is Holy Cross.
If you’d like to participate in Thursday Thirteen, check here.
Inequality? Income gap? Actually white collar workers and particularly CEOs or business owners may work 60-70 hours a week, some with no vacation for years if they are owners of small businesses. Why are they demonized by this President? Years ago when a $60,000/year salary was pretty good money for a new college graduate, I knew a young woman in the investment field and thought she had it pretty good--and she did (and still does and now makes 6 figures with a stay at home husband to watch the kids and manage the household help and investments), however, she was working 70-80 hours a week at 21 for that salary and sharing a tiny apartment in New York with 2 other women. The Wall St. company brought in catered meals--entry level workers didn't even get a break for lunch or dinner. Her annual income today should not be compared with other women who have made different choices, like working part time, or a 37.5 hour week, or 10 months a year so they can be home in the summer with the kids, or going into the arts or becoming a pastor. Oh yes, the first job for this honor student was below minimum wage as a summer resort waitress working for tips.
I’ll probably never make this, but it sounded good. Potatoes combined with milk are practically a perfect food, but this may be gilding the lily. Potatoes are high in vitamin C, have no cholesterol, are fat-free, have many vitamins and minerals and are cheap and easy to store. It's the gravy, cheese, sour cream and sides that give it a bad name
Ingredients
Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Lightly grease with butter 8 - 9 of the wells of a nonstick muffin pan.
In a medium mixing bowl whisk the eggs then mix in the sour cream. Stir in both cheeses and the chives. Add potatoes and mix well. Spoon them into the pan filling the cups to slightly below the top. Bake 25- 35 minutes until they pull away from the sides of the cup and are golden brown. Remove from oven and let them cool 5 minutes in pan. Serve with sour cream if desired.
Another bad storm is predicted for next week with a lot of snow.
“If this verifies [Chris Bradley, Channel 10] we'd be looking at a classic storm for Ohio with low pressure moving up from Texas and Oklahoma into Central Kentucky. The snowfall projections are above a foot across nearly the entire state.”
The number one advantage for a poor or low income child is to have married parents. That and a job for dad, any job, will provide those parents with the opportunity to leave poverty behind. No government program makes that kind of promise. It should at least get lip service during any speech about income inequality.
More to the point, we know that being unmarried is one of the highest risk factors for poverty. And no, splitting expenses between unmarried people isn’t the same. This is because marriage creates a tiny economy fueled by a magical concoction of love, selflessness and permanent commitment that holds spirits aloft during tough times.
http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2003/09/childrenfamilies-haskins
Unwed childbearing has risen from 6.3 percent of all births in 1964, when President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty, to more than 40 percent today. As Rector shows, these single-parent families with children are six times more likely to be poor than are married couples with kids. Put differently, marriage lowers the probability of child poverty by 82 percent.
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2010/11/marriage-shows-the-way-out-of-poverty
• Jobs: Ninety-two million Americans are out of the workforce.
• Health Insurance: Five-plus million Americans who had health insurance have now lost that health insurance. As many as 25 million more could lose their insurance this year. All of it due to Obamacare.
• Poverty: Fifty million Americans now live below the poverty level, a number which has risen to the highest level in American history since the 1960’s as calculated by the US Department of Labor.
• Food Stamps: A record forty seven million Americans are on Food Stamps.
• U.S. Debt: Now stands at a first-time record of over $17 trillion. The national debt has increased by $6 trillion under Obama, surpassing George W. Bush’s eight years back in 2012 — after just three years and two months in office.
• Energy: And as the cold grips America, energy costs soar.
SNOLLYGOSTERS
By Jack Burnette
It was grand noble thing,
When we rebelled George, our king.
And declared ourselves an independent nation.
Where patriots’ blood once stained the ground.
Hordes of snollygosters now abound.
Fattening their wallets through self-serving legislation.
Our Founding Fathers must be appalled.
To watch our congress display their gall.
To let lobbyist so easily chart our course.
Right and Left are not immune,
They’re mere puppets who’ve danced the tune,
Like the south end of a mangy northbound horse.
But the piper must have his fee,
Now it’s left to you and me,
So take heed and make a mental note.
How greedy scoundrels feed
At the trough,
And how we bleed,
And remember in November when we vote.
snol·ly·gos·ter [ snóllee gòstÉ™r ]
1. self-seeker: somebody, especially a politician, whose actions are motivated by self-interest rather than by high principles
2. This appeared in the Richmond Times Dispatch 10/21/2013
Perhaps you watched 60 minutes Sunday night about Austin Deeds, son of Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds, who left a Virginia hospital emergency room, went home, stabbed his father, and then killed himself. He was mentally ill, and there were no hospital beds. The implication of the story was that America has failed, won't financially support treatment for the mentally ill. But I was around in the 1970s when there was another "civil rights" movement for the mentally ill, led by former patients of institutions, social workers, academics and church do-gooders. With new drugs, small group homes, counseling, etc., large institutions weren't needed, we were told.
In the late 70s we took a friend having a break down to Riverside hospital, he wasn't even a citizen, and he was treated for a week or so, got counseling, drugs, and his life was saved and today is a functioning, healthy person. That couldn't happen today. There are no beds. Take someone to ER today having a breakdown and you might get a few hours of help. And it was liberals, not conservatives, who did this. If the mall shooter of last week in MD had shown signs of his mental illness, his mother would have been helpless, as was the mother of the Sandy Hook shooter. We called it civil rights then; today we call it helpless to save them.
Some bi-polar and schizophrenic people do very well on medication—so well that they decide not to take them any more. But parents can’t always intervene if they are adults, and their hands are tied to get help. Such a story was told in the December issue of (614) of Adam Helbling who felt a huge let down on medication and he was no long Jesus Christ. We did them no favors when we closed the care facilities in favor of medication. Both are needed.
http://nation.time.com/2014/01/27/lawmaker-whose-son-attacked-him-faults-mental-health-system/
They always look for motives. He wasn't poor—a preppy; he graduated from a great pubic high school; he had a job; was environmentally conscientious; liked by others; loved by his family. But he was suicidal and apparently did want to be known before he left this life. There are common denominators in these tragedies--young and male and mentally troubled. Three dead (including the shooter) and five injured.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/2014/01/27/
Darion Marcus Aguilar
Update: "Howard County police said they have reviewed Aguilar's journal and are examining his cellphone and a home computer, but have found nothing that connects him with the victims. Of the journal, authorities said only that Aguilar "knew he was having mental health issues. . . For more than a year, Aguilar had lived with his mother in the 4700 block of Hollywood Road in College Park — about a half-hour drive from the mall. Before that, Aguilar and his family lived in Silver Spring, about 20 minutes from the mall.Two law enforcement officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing, said Aguilar kept a journal in which he described suicidal thoughts. When the young man’s mother reported him missing Saturday, they said, a police detective was sent to the home. He began reading the journal, but Aguilar’s mother demanded he stop.
Later, after authorities identified Aguilar as the shooter, police seized the journal. In addition to the references to suicide, it contains notes expressing hatred of certain groups, according to the officials, who did not elaborate in detail.
“Common Core was developed primarily by a nonprofit called Achieve, Inc., in Washington, D.C., under the auspices of the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). The Standards cover mathematics and English language arts (although they also claim to cover “literacy” in other subjects such as science, history/social studies, and technical subjects). Currently, two consortia of states have accepted hundreds of millions in federal money to create national tests to align with the Standards.”
http://ohioansagainstcommoncore.com/ohio-timeline/
http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/tag/stop-common-core/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/27/ny-teachers-union-common-core_n_4676465.html
Our current high-rate policy is harming the U.S. economy, reducing job growth, and stifling wages—for no good reason. Abolition is a good long-term goal for corporate income tax reform, but we can start with at least chopping our federal-state rate of 40 percent down to the global average of 24 percent.
http://www.cato.org/blog/tax-reform-first-step-simple?
Your heart may be in the right place, but your hand is in my purse. All studies show that marriage of the parents of children is the #1 way to reduce poverty in the U.S.A. With married parents, a child has only about 8% chance of being raised in poverty. A better house, or a better education doesn't do it. Lunch programs from USDA distributed by church volunteers doesn't make a dent. Social justice workshops and summits for sure don't either, except maybe to tamp down a little liberal guilt if the Bible falls open to Matthew 25.
I eat an orange every day. About every third orange, I slice the peel, put it in a small amount of water and zap it in the microwave, drain, and do it again and drain. Then I soak it in sugar water for a day. Sometimes I save that water for my tea. I drain the water and sprinkle the peel with sugar and keep it in the frig in a closed container, where I munch a few slices a day for something tangy and sweet (much less sugar than a piece of candy). I used to let the slices dry out and then sugar them, but it didn’t really change the taste. If I were serving them at a party as sugared orange peels, I’d probably do it the right way. I don’t think I’ve discovered all the health benefits that this web page reports (lower cholesterol, anti-inflammatory, weight loss), but at least I haven’t had a cold in 18 months, which is pretty unusual for me. Or it’s a fluke. Either way,I’ve become rather fond of the peels. I sometimes chop them (after I’ve prepared them) in small pieces and add to fruit salads.
http://www.nutrition-and-you.com/fruit-peel.html
Always read instructions for cleaning the peel.
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