Garden and storage sheds of Lakeside, pt. 3

Basic.  What you see is what you get sheds.

This little shed is made of metal with corrugated roof and a few peek holes for windows. It’s behind Jane and Don Leach’s cottage on Lynn, but based on the property line of hostas, probably belongs to the next cottage.

This one is concrete block, painted gray to match the cottage which is probably early 20th century farm house style.  Also on Lynn.

Here are two off the lot sheds, decorated to match their cottage, simple and inexpensive, but they get the job done.  The one on the left is a gambrel roof (also called barn roof), or Dutch Colonial, which is really the most authentic style since it is from the 1600s.  The Victorian style which many covet for cottage architecture came much later. The owners have dressed it up with shutters and a window box.  The one on the right is a simple gable, and is nice for areas that may get a lot of snow or rain for run off. The double doors really help for limited storage.

These two snugged together have basic shed roofs, but I suspect the one of the right may be an old garage from the old days—there’s just something about those doors.  The other is an off the lot style, and it’s been painted to match the house. The grass was wet when I took the photo, so I didn’t go closer.

This is on South Oak and is so hidden in trees and weeds that I can’t tell if it’s being used for storage.  If it is, no one has been visiting for awhile.  But it’s possible there is an entrance I can’t see from the street. It’s large enough to have been a garage.

Something about this one says chicken coop to me.  Possibly it was moved to this spot from another location. It seems to be much older than the cottage. But it is also possible this was a children’s play house at one time.

Garden and Storage sheds of Lakeside, pt. 2

Artsy and tasteful

You can’t get much more artsy than this charmer—a standard, off the lot, barn shape with a variety of shingles and shapes to create a lake scene lighthouse with a rising (or setting) sun.

And who couldn’t love this little sweetie behind a Second St.cottage. I believe the door was salvaged from the house when an upper deck was made.  In the 1800s, many cottages had a “chapel” theme to reflect the spiritual closeness to nature that church camps and chautauquas offered. This allows some protection for bikes and children’s toys as well as a shed for tools.

This one is also off the lot common, but has been dressed up with shingles to match the house.  It faces Second St. because the house is on the corner. Notice the window box an the convenient wide doors.

This storage shed has small chapel windows to match the 19th century cottage.

Another angle for this little chapel/shed. Nicely shaped doors wide enough for easy access.

I was so sure this lovely shed was a guest house, but a neighbor told me it has always been a shed.  It certainly is cute. It is so well hidden, you’d have to be looking for it to see it.  Next to the parking lot on Third St.

This shed was part of a wonderful renovation of a very old nondescript cottage for Bob and Janet Heishman of Oak Park, IL in the 1990s (since sold).  The shed was really ugly and a different material than the house, but was redesigned to look really nice and has a side extension .  A deck connects it to the house.

This one is so hidden in the back yard, I suspect it might have been a “guest” house in a less fussy time, but is now used for storage.  It has a gable roof, then a smaller gable perpendicular over the door for a covered entry, an flower box at the window. Windows in sheds are necessary so you can see the bugs, bats and spiders as you enter to look for tools or bikes.

I can see four, possible five sheds in this photo, however, it’s the one with its own lean-to or car port I am focusing on. Notice the washtub on the side.  That’s truly a sign from the early 20th century.  And I love the reserved parking sign.

 

Hip roofs are very popular in Lakeside, with a number of “Ross Hips” built in the early 20th century near Perry Park as rentals. This shed has a hip roof and very attractive, stylized doors.

We seem to be a high tide on this drift

Honor the children

In honor and memory of the babies who die daily at the hands of Planned Parenthood, particularly those whose little body parts were sold, please volunteer or make a donation at your local pregnancy center which saves the lives of the unborn, and assists pregnant women. In Columbus that is Pregnancy Decision Health Center, but you probably have some in your city.

http://www.pdhc.org/locations/

Salad recipe

http://simplyhealthyhome.com/bacon-tomato-cucumber-salad/

Planned Parenthood selling body parts

It's such a disgusting business that I supposed we shouldn't be shocked. On the tape, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, casually sips her Merlot and discusses the sale of post-abortion infant body parts. And to think there are Christians who support this slaughter through “charitable donation” and electing Democrats.

http://www.caintv.com/planned-parenthood-director-ca

Tom Cotton on the bad Iran deal

"This proposed deal is a terrible, dangerous mistake that's going to pave the path for Iran to get a nuclear weapon while also giving them tens of billions of dollars of sanctions relief, even lifting the arms embargo at a time when they're destabilizing the entire middle east," Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) said in an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "The American people will repudiate this deal and I believe Congress will kill the deal."

Cotton, an Iraq War veteran and the youngest member of the Senate, has been the most vocal opponent of a nuclear deal with Iran. He sent an open letter to Iran's leaders in early March that warned Congress did not intend to honor any potential deal. Forty-seven of Cotton's fellow Republican senators signed the open letter.”

TPM

Robert Putnam speaks at Lakeside

Robert D. Putnam was our program at Lakeside last night--he’s an entertaining, engaging speaker, about my age, married 55 years, a Harvard graduate and college professor.  Even with charts and graphs that show the widening income and behavior gap between upper class (which is growing) and lower class (also growing) and middle class (shrinking) he can hold a large audience‘s attention. He clearly laid out the reasons (particularly for near-by Port Clinton, Ohio, his home town), but his solutions are what one would expect from an academic--more money for education. Twenty years ago his “Bowling alone” book showed how Americans were not pulling together in the communities, clubs, churches and fraternal societies working for the larger good as they had been in the first half of the 20th century.  And that was before the me-phone.

I was shocked to learn that in 1990 Port Clinton’s out of wedlock birth rate was 9% (below the national average) and today just 25 years later is about 40% just a little less than Columbus and above Ohio’s rate. This is not Chicago or Cleveland, but little Port Clinton (ca. 6,000 population, 93% white).  So guess which children are doing better in all measures? Which children are attending church and leaving Port Clinton to go to college?  Children living with married parents who provide economically, spiritually, and socially for them.

And yet he wants education and government to solve this. My belief is that government has contributed to the problem with 128 transfer programs taking money from the middle class to give to the poor that would make a woman think twice or thrice before marrying a guy who cares more about cars and sports than his children, causing her to lose health and housing benefits. Marriage and responsibility help young men become grown ups; the government helps them remain adolescents until they can collect Medicare.

He noted that at the turn of the 20th century Americans decided tax supported high school was important and it made a huge difference in the lives of the poor.  But for some reason I think he’s believing compulsory, government pre-schools and free college will do the same.  Well, not without marriage, and not without jobs—but it will be more jobs for academics and government bureaucracies.

http://robertdputnam.com/about-our-kids/ 

http://robertdputnam.com/about-our-kids/press-release/

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/books/review/our-kids-by-robert-d-putnam.html?_r=0

Dylann Roof wasn’t stopped by FBI, but the gun controls were there

“President Obama pushed Americans to call for stricter gun controls in the wake of the June 17 Charleston church massacre, complaining that the admitted killer, Dylann Roof, “had no trouble getting his hands on a gun.”

What the President likely didn’t know when he made those comments is this:  It wasn’t a lack of gun controls, but a bureaucratic failure, that led to Roof obtaining the gun legally, due, it turns out, on a senior FBI document examiner’s unfamiliarity with South Carolina geography.” Christian Science Monitor

However, does anyone believe he wouldn’t have found a way with an illegal gun?

What does Bernie really offer?

Bernie Sander's side has nothing of substance; he trots out socialism which is a total failure (except in all white countries), or which has resulted in the murder of millions by their own governments. So his party (which didn't support Lincoln) has to attack our past. My family has been in the U.S. since colonial times, and no one ever owned a slave. However, free blacks in the South and a few in the North did. So sort that one out, Bernie.

There are millions in slavery today, Columbus Dispatch just reported on some at chicken farms in Ohio, much of it still in Africa, much of it still in Muslim countries just as in the 17th and 18th century. Bernie's team-Democrat is supporting/advocating the deaths of the descendants of those who survived those terrible times. They are destroying their families with government transfers, tying them to the party plantation with "social justice" (just-us) programs.

Bernie's team even in my life time sent people to Congress who had been in the KKK, and who supported Jim Crow and voted against Republican civil rights efforts and anti-lynching laws. As recently as 2010, the Senate president pro tempore was former Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd, D-W.V. If the South can't be trusted with a symbol, why trust the Democrats who are much, much closer to the problem--like the more recent 20th century? Living Democrats in glass houses had better stop lobbing rocks at dead Confederates. http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/courier/opinion/mona-charen-whitewashing-the-democratic-party-s-history/article_ae2148b7-7ce2-5c3b-abc0-0a45a57b13d7.html

U.S. Talibanners try to destroy Confederate history and memory

Wording on the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Gettysburg (dedicated 1965). "A memorial to soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy--South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, North Carolina, Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee, Virginia, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi. Heroic defenders of their country. Their fame shall be an echo and a light unto eternity."

That is until the Democrats try to reinstate the bitterness of the post-war reconstruction era and kill their memories again.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/04/14/confederate-soldiers-are-american-veterans-by-act-of-congress/

Daughters of the Confederacy put this statue on Johnson’s Island prisoner of war cemetery.  Let’s hope the Talibanners don’t come after it.

China hacked the OPM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/09/report-chinese-hacked-into-the-federal-governments-personnel-office

http://computer.financialexpress.com/news/opm-hack-about-22-million-or-7-of-us-population-data-stolen/12802/

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/10/technology/opm-hack-fingerprints/index.html

Robert Putnam to speak at Lakeside

I'm not sure how many people will come to Lakeside tonight to hear Dr. Robert D. Putnam. Usually Monday is free movie night. He's a respected author (from Port Clinton, OH) and his topic is "Our kids, the American dream in crisis." I hope he reminds people that [real] marriage is the foundation for pulling kids out of poverty and crime. Our own "war on poverty" has created many of the problems we are experiencing as a nation.

http://robertdputnam.com/

Garden and storage sheds of Lakeside, pt. 1

Let’s start with my neighborhood.  You can see representative styles near by—mostly pre-built, but some designed to fit the needs of the homeowner.

This is ours.  My husband wants a larger one that will easily hold bicycles and the trash cans both, but I think this one fits the size of the house (750 sf). We have 3 bicycles, and maneuvering them is a challenge.  It came with the house (purchased in 1988) and I suspect it was built around that time. My experience after 55 years of marriage is that you fill up whatever amount of storage you have.  So think small.

This is our neighbor’s 6 sided, architect designed storage building on Third Ave., but it is at the street in front instead of behind the cottage.  One of the few I’ve seen like that.  The early 20th c. cottage was updated and remodeled in the 80s and again in the 90s and is covered with Hardie Board which doesn’t need to be painted. It’s a wonderful product for a historical community where you don’t want constant care. We sat on the porch most of one summer wondering what this would be as we watched a crew of carpenters build it.

This is behind one of the oldest cottages at Sycamore and Third—cottage dates from the 1870s.  It’s just a shed, but dressed up with some pottery and sits next to the patio with a trellis.  Huge Chinquapin trees (Quercus muehlenbergii)  provide the shade.

This storage shed was added to the house on Oak St. (all streets north and south are named for trees, with the exception of Lynn which would be Linden)  when it was sided with vinyl some years ago with a little shelter spot for bikes during the summer and a concrete drive for the cars.

This one is also on Oak St., and appears to be a “duplex” with two doors, perhaps at one time also serving the cottage next door (above).

This pleasant design was moved to this cottage from Lynn a few years ago when the owner put this rental up for sale.  It is now white with green shutters, and really provides the new owners with a lot of storage.

Jan likes to keep her shed authentic (unpainted), but festive.  This is also on Oak. Also provides shelter for feral cats which dine on her porch.

Little and big boxes as promoted by media

The U.S. Census Bureau allows us to self identify for statistical gathering and adheres to these 1997 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards on race and ethnicity. Notice there is no "Hispanic" or "Latino" because that would be Spain or oddly American Indian (tribal peoples of Central or South America). The Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice and FBI use different designations for victims and criminals—including ethnicity and country of origin. Some statistical designations include age, and therefore under “millennial” you can have whites as a minority in some states. For the U.S. Census you can claim OPI with Samoan ancestors, but if your family was Zapotec (Mexico) from Oaxaca, which is probably much more common, you won’t even get a write-in.

White – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

Black or African American – A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

American Indian or Alaska Native – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America) and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.

Asian – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander – A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

A NYT opinion piece thrashes about examining the statistics for board members of various organizations that support parks and environmental issues and finding—you guessed it—discrimination.  I guess they didn’t examine  the age statistics, or leisure time, income, etc. of park visitors.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/opinion/sunday/diversify-our-national-parks.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0  (be sure to read the comments which demolish one person’s opinion) Also, according to U.S. Census, 75% of U.S. is white and not the figure given in this piece.

Camden is a good example of government waste and inefficiency

Camden, New Jersey, is the poorest small city in America and provides a case study of the tragic ineffectiveness of government programs at ameliorating poverty. State and federal taxpayers have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on various redevelopment programs in Camden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0JorXgqxiU

Diabetics need to take charge of their diets and their health

A new study published this week in the journal Neurology shows that people with type 2 diabetes demonstrate a decline in cognitive skills and ability to perform daily activities over the course of only two years.

• After two years, the people with diabetes showed greater declines in gray matter as well as impairments in their ability to regulate blood flow in the brain than the people without.
• Blood flow regulation decreased by an average of 65 percent in the participants with diabetes.
• Among participants with diabetes, scores on thinking and memory tests decreased by an average of 12 percent, from 46 to 41 points, while test scores of the participants without diabetes stayed the same at 55 percent.
• Higher levels of inflammation were correlated with greater difficulties with blood flow regulation.
• Those with the highest levels of blood flow regulation impairment at the outset of the study had more difficulties performing daily activities (such as cooking and bathing) after two years.

Diet changes that could help

Despite cheese's less-than-healthy reputation, a recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that cheese-eaters actually have a 12 percent lower risk of the disease than their non cheese-eating counterparts.
Plus, people who ate more cheese, fermented milk and yogurt in the study were also more likely to have a decreased diabetes risk than people who ate less of these foods, noted the

Researchers from the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center found that people who regularly eat tree nuts (we're talking pistachios, walnuts, almonds and cashews) have a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes, as well as heart disease and metabolic syndrome.

University of Washington and University of Pittsburgh researchers found that people who walked the most in their study -- which included 1,826 people from Native American communities -- had a 29 percent lower risk of diabetes, compared with those who walked the least.

Apple, pear and blueberry eaters have lower risks of Type 2 diabetes, according to a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study was based on the diets of 200,000 people. HuffPost Canada reported that anthocyanins and fruits rich in anthocyanins were linked with lower diabetes risk; flavanoids, however, were not.

Eating a range of fruits and veggies could help to lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes, Medical Daily reported.

Drinking alcohol at a moderate level is linked with a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes for some people, according to an American Journal of Clinical Nutrition study.  Harvard researchers found that for women with refined carb-heavy diets, moderate alcohol consumption is linked with a decreased diabetes risk of 30 percent, compared with non-imbibing women who eat similar diets, Reuters reported.

Chinese researchers found earlier this year that coffee may stop a protein linked with Type 2 diabetes from building up, thereby possibly lowering the risk of the disease, WebMD reported. The research, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, suggests that three particular compounds found in coffee are able to have this beneficial effect: caffeine, chlorogenic acid and caffeic acid, according to WebMD.

HuffPost Science, July 11, 2015

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769828/

Euchre is a favorite in Indiana

Because everyone from Indiana (or son of—Bob Sr. grew up in Elwood and Indianapolis) knows how to play Euchre, there was a lively card game at our mini-reunion Thursday and Friday. I'm a poor loser, so I didn't play. I'm also a poor winner, because I don't like to see anyone lose. Euchre is the national pass time for anyone from Indiana, so if I really want to wow him, I offer him a game of Euchre. Boys from Indianapolis find that very sexy.

When cities disappear

I don't know why it bothers me more in Indianapolis than Columbus--it's the same in all cities--but driving that free way system a number of times this week made me think of all the neighborhoods that were sliced and diced, business districts and churches destroyed, clubs and societies split up, families separated, slums created, all by federal money to keep commerce and traffic moving. And now we see it happening again with a reverse push to move the poor, so the down town and old neighborhoods are being "gentrified" and rehabbed, old buildings being preserved, bike baths and canals and new codes being enforced so tourists and the yuppies have a playground. I suppose it's because I remember the Indy of 55 years ago, and recognize nothing today.

Memorial Presbyterian, Indianapolis, where 3 generations of my husband’s family worshipped Jesus. I believe the archives are at Hanover College.

Friday family photo—the siblings

On Thursday we drove to Indianapolis so we could see Bob’s brother, Rick, who was there for an Elk’s national convention.  He is the Exalted Ruler of Lodge 1959 in Huntington Beach, CA, and has many responsibilities. So we all met at their sister’s home and this included the 8 grandchildren of our niece who had been with us in Lakeside just 2 weeks previously.

With Rick and Kate on Thursday before we all went out to eat at O’Charley’s on East Washington.  It rained most of Friday, but in late afternoon the sun came out and the children could play outside.  Whew!

Kate and I were dressed for the coolish July weather, but not the AC.

The Bruce siblings are so pale you need a colorful background for them to show up on photos.

With the exception of the two adults holding children, these are Joan’s grandchildren, Jean’s great-grandchildren.

We want white socialism say the Progressives—a blond, blue-eyed fairy tale

“Progressives have a longstanding love affair with the nations of northern Europe, which are, or in some cases were until the day before yesterday, ethnically homogeneous, overwhelmingly white, hostile to immigration, nationalistic, and frankly racist in much of their domestic policy.The Left occasionally indulges in bouts of romantic exoticism — its pin-ups have included Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Mao Zedong; we might even count Benito Mussolini, “that admirable Italian gentleman” who would not have been counted sufficiently white to join Franklin Roosevelt’s country club — but the welfare states that progressives dream about are the whitest ones: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc. The significance of this never quite seems to occur to progressives. When it is suggested that the central-planning, welfare-statist policies that they favor are bound to produce results familiar to the unhappy residents of, e.g., Cuba, Venezuela, or Bolivia — privation, chaos, repression, political violence — American progressives reliably reply: “No, no, we don’t want that kind of socialism. We want socialism like they have it in Finland.”

Translation: “We want white socialism, not brown socialism!”

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420877/socialism-left-white

https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/artikler-og-publikasjoner/immigrants-in-norway-sweden-and-denmark

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5195/sweden-rape

It is estimated that there are today more people of Swedish ancestry living in the United States and Canada than in Sweden.

How will you do on current events?

I answered all 12 questions of this Pew Research quiz correctly.  How are you doing on current events?

http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/the-news-iq-quiz/

“Test your knowledge of prominent people and major events in the news by taking our short 12-question quiz. Then see how you did in comparison with a nationally representative group of 3,147 randomly selected U.S. adults surveyed online and by mail between March 10-April 6 as members of the Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel.”

Everything I don’t like. . .

Obama is just wrong about the threat of Climate Change

Quoting Obama's warning that "no challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change," Dr. Ivar Giaever  said it was a "ridiculous statement."

"I say this to Obama: Excuse me, Mr. President, but you're wrong. Dead wrong," he said, according to Climate Depot.

 http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ivar-Giaever-nobel-prize-global-warming-obama/2015/07/07/id/653805/#ixzz3fEeFoMzd

And I would add, the Pope is wrong too.

Giaever was one of more than 100 co-signers in a letter to the president in March 2009 that was critical of his stance on global warming, saying, "We the undersigned scientists, maintain that the case for alarm regarding climate change is grossly overstated."

Pay to play Clinton style

Hillary Clinton's State Department approved weapons deals that were 143% bigger than the same countries had gotten during the Bush administration. These countries had one thing in common -- they made big donations to the Clinton Foundation. (Townhall.com)

Site meter gone wacko

It’s gone from counting thousands a day to zero.  Can’t find anyone at home.

Social gatherings segregated by sex

I've been to hundreds, maybe thousands, of social gatherings--church, neighborhood, clubs, academe, etc.--almost everyone is white, mid-west and Christian, but a few are black and Asian, particularly when I was younger.  Always by choice men and women separate themselves and discuss what they care about--sports, children, career, fashion, food. If the event is art or music, there might be some mixing, but by the end of the event, even those are divided by gender. Now that I’m retired, age is the big divider.  Now a Muslim woman objects.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/07/i-m-boycotting-sex-segregated-parties-in-my-muslim-american-community.html?source=TDB&via=FB_Page

UMC General Board supports abortion

Rev. Laura Young, a UM minister, "testified in Ohio that the abortion-restricting policies discriminate against women from poor and minority communities and reduce health-care access for women." Really? 38% of abortions are for minorities. What a bloody way to "fix" poverty. Just who do Methodists think Jesus was talking about in Matt 25? John Wesley must be rolling in the grave. "Young said the Ohio coalition collaborates with other social-justice- focused organizations,... especially those that work for systems — fair wages, worker and economic rights, racial justice, LGBT rights — that support women who do choose to have a child." Where is the social justice for that unborn child that might be female, or poor, or gay, or might grow up to develop a cure for cancer or obesity or establish a business that employs thousands? (quotes from Columbus Dispatch, July 2)

“GBCS has a long history of ignoring traditional United Methodists. Every four years it writes legislation and lobbies for General Conference to change the Book of Discipline so it would radically alter United Methodism’s traditional and biblical stance on marriage and sexuality. Never has it promoted or even explained our balanced, compassionate biblical position regarding sexuality.

And who can forget its full-out lobbying for the passage of the Affordable Care Act that was praised by then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi?  The board was engaged in its efforts to pass the bill even when it allowed for government-funded abortions. http://goodnewsmag.org/2015/03/editorial-no-laughing-matter/

Proprioception and aging

I'm not into fitness, but I will have to add a new routine to my core and bursitis routines and work on proprioception. That's your body's ability to know where it is without having to look. If I close my eyes, I probably couldn't stand in the shower, and walking home in the dark after the fireworks the other night was just plain difficult.

Proprioception is your ability to sense where your body and limbs are positioned in space. It's what allows you to navigate in a dark room, walk up stairs without looking at your feet and brush your teeth without peering in a mirror. Your muscles, joints and skin are equipped with tiny sensory receptors that provide vital information to your brain, so you can maintain control, react quickly to sudden changes in your environment and move about safely. Proprioceptive ability tends to weaken as people age, because message transmissions to and from the central nervous system become more sluggish. In turn, poor proprioception can negatively affect balance, agility and coordination, all of which increase your risk of falling.

http://livehealthy.chron.com/geriatric-proprioceptive-exercises-10002.html

The problem with Trump’s charges—no one knows! Not even the government

Here's the problem with Trump's charges on illegal immigrants--the statistics are kept by the federal government. "Of adults arrested for murder, 52.1 percent were black, and 45.5 percent were white." "Of all adults arrested in 2013, 69.6 percent were white, 27.6 percent were black, and 2.9 percent were of other races." You can determine male, female, black, white, adult, juvenile; not ethnicity, not illegal and legal. This is complicated by the fact that "Hispanic" is a made up, meaningless word which excludes the non-Spanish speaking Caribbean peoples like Haitians and Brazil. And it includes those 100% European race from Spain. (Like you see on Univision.)

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/tables/table-43

The Democrats will be choked by their own phony outrage

This whole phony Confederate battle flag rage will come back to bite liberals. It was FDR who imprisoned Americans of Japanese, Italian and German ancestry; it was the Democrats who created the KKK and Jim Crow. Look at LBJ's racism; he used the Civil Rights Act as his legacy--but only after years of being on the other team. If you're going to say, "It wasn't us, we're different now," then why can't monuments, parks, movie relics and people 150 years later say that? Africans had slaves (still do); Arabs had slaves (still do); Rome and Greece had slaves; Japan had slaves as recently as the 1940s. There is an international sex slave business even today. The USA fought a costly war and ended race based slavery. But it's a hot political button for a party that is terrified that it only has an elderly socialist and crooked former Secretary of State to run in 2016 and they might lose all that grifting money. The whole bench of 14 or so Republicans needs to stand up as a group and agree this is 100% fake and phony and only meant to divide and conquer.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/04/movement-to-rename-schools-honoring-confederate-leaders-finally-widens-to-reach-progressive-woodrow-wilson/

https://www.billwhittle.com/afterburner/pin-tale-donkey-democrats-horrible-racist-past

As we start week 3 at Lakeside

Beth Sibbring photo

We get a double display; can also see the display from Put in Bay.  This year’s our display was launched from a barge instead of the dock, which meant Lakesiders and guests were able to use the dock all day.  Many bands playing on the grounds over various times.

Spicy green peppers and pineapple stir fry

This sounds easy.  The title said red peppers, but I didn’t see any.  Like many foodie bloggers, she probably uses what’s on hand. Now that I’m getting good at making brown rice, I’ll try this.  I don’t have  a wok, but that won’t matter.  And mine won’t be very spicy.  Recipe at From Scratch.  I added a handful of dried cranberries to freshly cooked green beans the other night, and t was quite good. I think raisins and cranberries make a nice addition to vegetable.s

Ingredients: 1 cup cooked brown rice

2 green bell peppers

1 can pineapple chunks

1/2 white onion

1 handful of raisins

1 cup cooked shrimp (optional)

1 egg

olive oil for cooking

1 tsp. red pepper flakes

2 tsp. soy sauce

1 tsp. sugar

2 tsp. whole wheat flour

Drain your can of pineapple and set the fruit aside. In a small sauce pan mix together the pineapple juice, soy sauce, red pepper, sugar and flour. Cook over medium heat until ingredients are fully combined, set aside. Chop up the onion and green peppers. Drizzle some olive oil in a large wok and heat, saute onions. Once onions begin to brown add in the shrimp, pineapple and green peppers. Add in your fully cooked rice. Once rice has had a chance to warm move all wok contents to one side, crack and add in your egg. As it cooks work it into your rice and other ingredients. Now pour your sauce over the entire thing and add raisins. Allow to cook for another 15-20 minutes and serve.

Happy July 4th from the Bruces

In the shade of a 150 year old Oak tree on 2nd Street, we enjoyed the Lakeside parade with about 10,000 kids on bicycles and lots of adults acting crazy.Beautiful weather, high 70s, sunshine.

Watching the parade on 2nd across from Central Park

Couple on Lynn walking their decorated dogs

Guys Club cordless drill team

Peach Avenue Walleye gold cart

 

Kazoo Band

My kind of car—1955 Thunderbird

Neighbor Steve Bemiller and the Heritage Society popcorn machine

Lunch of bbq ribs, potato salad and baked beans on the lawn of Hotel Lakeside. Messy, but yummy.

A good question—why are we Democrats?

Is this the face of White Privilege?

Height, youth, beauty, brains and maleness does give one some privilege--that extends to all races. (Kardashians excepted). But being the offspring of a politician or celebrity, certainly allows for a hand up. Some crash and burn. I always thought Chelsea could avoid some of the down side--seemed to have a good head on her shoulders--but I think fame has taken her down a bit. Wouldn't you hate being the daughter of two flakes--although I'm sure they all love each other.

Cecile Richards’ handsome salary for aborting babies—$590,000

CEOs of non-profits do very well; some have blood on their hands. Indeed, one of Planned Parenthood's "largest sources of revenue is its varied government funding which amounted to $528 million of taxpayer money, an average of $1.4 million per day. But that’s beans compared to its reported $1.4 billion in asset."

“Despite the 282 new pro-life laws passed in the past five years, the leaders of the abortion giant are seeing dollar signs. ALL reports,  “The CEOs saw a 14.6% increase in the average salary in the last three years. At this rate, the average CEO salary will see a 4.8% increase every year.”

The income gap: “[Planned Parenthood] says 78 percent of its patients receive incomes below the federal poverty level. Yet, the combined salaries of its CEOs was $11,536,408 in 2013.” http://liveactionnews.org/planned-parenthood-president-gets-another-raise-even-affiliates-decrease/

Former Planned Parenthood clinic staffer writes, “You see, as an abortion clinic worker, I experienced evil in a way that most have not (thank The Lord). I have physically experienced evil. I have touched it when I pieced these tiny babies back together. I have seen it in those little glass dishes that I dumped their bodies into. I have heard it as the suction machine violently pulled these tiny bodies out of their mother’s wombs. And yes, I have smelled it. Abortion has a very specific smell, one that you will never forget.” Abby Johnson

Amazing Grace, violin and piano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hFO6EcC0ls

"Amazing Grace” performed by Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State, and Jenny Oaks Baker, a world renowned violinist.