This is most certainly true

Right now our elderly cat isn’t well, and we’re doing everything we can to tempt her to eat and drink.  I wonder if she’s just kidding around and enjoying all the extra attention?

The race-based wealth gap

What happens with employees investing in 401(k)s? The investment behavior of  9,600 Alcoa workers was examined between 2003 and 2010 for racial differences.  Outcome:  Blacks and Hispanics invested differently than whites.

• Black and Hispanic employees were less likely to participate in the plans at all
• minority contributors to the plans chose safer, low-returning assets like money market accounts than riskier fare like stock or bond funds
• minority employees were more likely to make early withdrawals from their accounts, or take loans out against them
• black salaried employees were less likely to participate in the plans than Hispanic or White salaried employees

Yet, at the end of the article, despite showing investing behavior was different,  the author still concluded “it’s important to keep in mind that racial inequality can manifest itself in many different ways, including some with the potential to perpetuate the disparity in our retirement years.”

http://qz.com/343369/racial-disparities-can-be-found-even-in-our-401k-accounts/

Will the Clintons pull it off again? Don’t be stupid, Republicans

Republicans should not be fooled. If Democrats wanted to run the perfect candidate to spoil the 2016 election for Republicans, it would be Donald Trump. The few issues he's right about is just a trail of bread crumbs to the big bad wolf of more Democrat statism.

The President’s trip to Kenya

I'm glad Obama finally made a visit to Kenya, birthplace of his father. His attention to anything "African" has been poor. Like President Clinton, President Bush made two separate trips to Sub-Saharan Africa. On one trip he visited three of the poorest countries in the world: Liberia, Rwanda, and Benin. He also made huge strides in HIV treatment and Trafficking in Persons (slavery) prevention. Under Obama, those programs have really limped along after great strides under Bush. I think many Africans expected more from Obama since he is half African, but were very disappointed. He's ignored Africa's problems, especially its fight against radical Islamists for the most part. Making a hash tag about kidnapped girls from a Christian school in Nigeria got his wife a lot of warm fuzzy points on the internet, but didn't save any Christian children.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/boko-haram-mocks-bringbackourgirls-hashtag-campaign-in-latest-video-9604307.html

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/07/01/kenyan-leaders-slam-president-obamas-gay-rights-comments

http://tbo.com/news/church-of-the-brethren-brings-altruistic-message-to-tampa-conference-20150712/

A prophet for our time—speaking over 100 years ago

There’s more to Easter Island heads than meets the eye—bodies

http://www.idealistrevolution.org/easter-island-head-discovery/

We’ve been thinking for all these years that they were just heads, however all along, the sculptures have secretly had torsos, buried beneath the earth.  Some 70 feet tall and 270 tons.

http://www.eisp.org/5454/

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/easter-island-head-bodies-293799

Hulk Hogan, John Kerry and Nicki Minag

I see they are going to ruin Hulk Hogan's career because he used the N word some time in the past. About 45 years ago (after he'd met with the enemy) John Kerry was back stabbing every VietNam soldier before Congress after a tour of 4 months and a self inflicted wound, and yet he managed a career move where he gets to back stab all of us including blacks, Asians, and Hispanics with the Iran deal. Where's the outrage from the word police? And black Nicki Minag gets rich on lyrics like "You a stupid hoe, yeah you a you a stupid hoe" and calling women she doesn't like lab rats and bitches. And please, don't tell me that's her art.

Calls for more gun control

Within minutes the Louisiana theater tragedy had been politicized by the gun controlists. I don’t recall them saying much when an illegal alien felon shot a woman walking with her father in San Francisco.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/12/19/mass_shootings_in_america_northeastern_criminologists_james_alan_fox_monica.html

But it’s a myth that mass shootings are on the increase.  News 24/7 makes it seem that way.   And that’s not the only myth this research busts. Especially more laws.

And, perhaps most dispiriting, the authors argue that pretty much every policy proposal intended to reduce mass shootings has been worthless. Increased funding for and access to mental health treatment? A well-meaning idea, but likely ineffective in preventing mass murder, given that, “with their tendency to externalize blame and consider themselves as victims of mistreatment, mass murderers see the problem to reside in others, not themselves,” and thus would likely avoid all opportunities to receive psychiatric help. Would renewing the 1994 federal assault weapons ban do any good? Probably not: “a comparison of the incidence of mass shootings during the 10-year window when the assault weapon ban was in force against the time periods before implementation and after expiration shows that the legislation had virtually no effect, at least in terms of murder in an extreme form.”

I bought a copycat Feta cheese

Real Feta cheese is made with goat or sheep's milk, according to this article, but I bought a "copycat" Feta made with Buffalo milk from Bulgaria. Didn't know there were buffalo in Bulgaria, but apparently the Indian breed has spread around the world. From 1962 to 1990, Murrah buffaloes from India were imported into Bulgaria and a new population of buffalo was created by upgrading the local buffalo.  https://www.marketdistrict.com/foodie/foodie-focus/a-betta-feta

Black lives matter

Self-Compassion-Based Eating Awareness Training

That’s the title of a workshop.  Supposed to teach one to trust her taste buds and loose weight, but with “mindfulness” (aka Hindu meditation).  Ha. Self compassion for me meant slices of cheddar on crackers, and baking lots of cookies.

I trusted my taste buds and “felt my hunger” 3 years ago and put on 30 pounds, which I’ve now taken off the old fashioned way—eat less, move more.

Truth overruled by Ryan Anderson, it’s not over

Summary:  Marriage is, as the author Anderson explains,

“a human institution which predates the state. Why did it form? In order to make men and women responsible to one another, and to maximize the outcomes for both the adults and any children which result from their union. As such, "Marriage is society's least-restrictive means of ensuring the well-being of children."”

“Once you move away from the original purpose and definition of marriage, you enter a world in which the institution is infinitely plastic. Which means that if you support same-sex marriage today, you need to be comfortable with whatever marriage will be defined as tomorrow. And there will be future redefinitions.”

“With marriage now redefined, we can expect to see the marginalization of those with traditional views and the erosion of religious liberty. The law and culture will seek to eradicate such views through economic, social, and legal pressure. With marriage redefined, believing what virtually every human society once believed about marriage will increasingly be deemed a malicious prejudice to be driven to the margins of culture.”

The tactics of gay activists came out with the book’s release.  Protests without having read it, no honest discussion even though it should appeal to honest gay couples who respect their own marriage, and even that of others. In short, religious bigotry and intolerance on display for why the book was necessary.

Regnery Publishing
Paperback • 2015 • $16.99
ISBN: 978-1-62157-451-4

The ongoing Planned Parenthood scandal

The unedited Planned Parenthood video will be released. They insist that “crunchy” is part of clever editing, and the doctor’s comment about a Lamborghini. They may regret being so snooty about "out of context" and "edited." May show without a doubt who they are for those who were in denial. The MSM are quick to be quiet, except to defend PP and call “donation” of “tissues” and “specimens” a generous act.  Creepy people completely without a moral center.

How much government control?

What and how much should government control? According to these circles, we currently have socialism-lite. Not quite Europe, but getting there. In my life time, the federal government has taken over education and energy, Social Security was Depression era, whereas for my grandparents it was just roads, police, military, courts. All else was handled privately or by churches and group associations (usually ethnic or religious to protect their own groups like Lutheran Swedes) with homes for elderly and orphans, or there was some at the county level of government, for instance, my grandmother received benefits for the blind from her county. The control is getting tighter, squeezing out private initiative. If you look at employed blacks, they have lowest small business, and highest government employment but still have the highest unemployment and dependency on government. This template has left out prisons, always for the state, and a huge industry.

Keep in mind, the biggest killer of citizens is not war with other countries, but death by government.

Martin O’Malley, left of Hillary, Democrat candidate for President

In 2008, construction was completed on the 757-room Baltimore Hilton, a $305 million publicly-funded hotel spearheaded by Baltimore’s mayor at the time, Martin O’Malley. The hotel, in seven years of operation, has never turned a profit. The best year of operation saw a $2.9 million loss.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/21/omalley-pushed-for-publicly-funded-hotel-thats-been-hemorrhaging-money/

I looked at the website: $159 starting. Wow. Sounded great, so I went to booking, and couldn't find a single room at that rate. I don't think this is a place for lower income, retirees so public funding is supposed to bring in people who can spend money. But I guess no one wants to go to Baltimore where the police can't protect them.

http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/10/baltimore-cops-on-soaring-crime-rate-the-public-wanted-a-softer-police-force-and-now-theyve-got-it/

Only the names are different

This morning at Metro Fitness I was chatting with the man at the next machine.  He thinks the Iran deal is just fine and he plans to vote for Hillary Clinton.

From Dennis Prager's column this week:

"The American and European negotiations with Iran have so precisely mirrored 1938 that you have to wonder how anyone could not see it.

The Nazi regime’s great hatred was Jews. Iran’s great hatred is the Jewish state. The Nazis’ greatest aim was to exterminate the Jews of Europe. Iran’s greatest aim is to exterminate the Jewish state. Nazi Germany hated the West and its freedoms. The Islamic Republic of Iran hates the West and its freedom...s. Germany sought to dominate Europe. Iran seeks to dominate the Middle East and the Muslim world.

And exactly as Britain and France appeased Nazi Germany, the same two countries along with the United States have chosen to appease Iran.

Today, people mock Chamberlain. But just change the names, and you realize that we are living through a repetition of Munich. Substitute the Islamic Republic of Iran for Nazi Germany, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for Hitler, Barack Obama and John Kerry for Chamberlain, Israel for Czechoslovakia and for Europe’s Jews, and the increasingly unsafe world of 2015 for the increasingly unsafe world of 1938."

Obama visits a prison

Obama must have used a lot more drugs and committed crimes while doing so or sold them to others if he's comparing his drug use to those in prison. His current crimes against the country are probably more serious. Maybe that's what he really meant?

In the 1970s we used to visit men in the old Ohio Penitentiary in downtown Columbus --black, white, Christian, Muslim, young, old; murderers, thieves, organized crime and white collar--you name it, we met them and developed relationships. One charming young guy in for burglary and drugs had even pimped for his wife. I never met one who said he didn't do the crime, but they didn't like the time or the parole board because it was "unfair" that someone else did less, or got released early. Taking risks was an even bigger "high" than drugs. Nor were they crime free before what sent them to prison (except for "crimes of passion" which were usually one time) they were caught after many years of pulling it off.

http://truthuncensored.net/obama-visits-jail-compares-himself-to-criminals-video/#!

http://www.salon.com/2015/07/19/why_americas_prison_problem_is_so_much_worse_than_even_barack_obama_wants_to_let_on/

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/16/obama-el-reno-federal-correctional-institution-criminal-justice-reform/30234017/

Ohio’s governor Kasich has joined the crowd

It's not embarrassing to have sixteen candidates on the Republican bench, 14 of whom could run the country, it's richness beyond imagining. But it is embarrassing that there are so few Democrats willing to challenge Hillary. There aren't many Democrat governors (31 Republicans, 18 Democrats, and one independent) and that's usually the best preparation for the presidency. And it's not true that there are just right wingers running--it's a media scare tactic. The Democrats have moved so far left that it just appears that way. Three candidates with failed European socialist model. . . 2 of whom have had to apologize for thinking all lives matter and one of whom won’t talk to the press or anyone not selected for her audience (wouldn’t appear at Netroots where the other 2 were skewered).  But it is the party that had to take a special vote to keep the word God in the party platform, and then it barely squeaked through.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/politics/john-kasich-election-2016-announcement/

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/what-john-kasich-believes/399044/

As speeches go, his was pretty dull; sounded like a Democrat from the 1980s.

This is what white privilege looks like

Wealthy.  Lived abroad.  Private schools. Top colleges. Power.

Prevent neck hump

Do you have years of poor posture?  Hours of sitting at a computer?  Or just getting old? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X1D8RgWpZQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJ7kNF5s9gA  Several posture videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzd_nFzj0Y

http://saveourbones.com/weekend-challenge-the-hump-straightener/

http://2beingfit.com/super-effective-hump-back-correction-exercises/

There’s a lot we didn’t know, but now we do . . .

Black lives matter, white not so much

People of European, Asian and Indian ancestry will need to leave the Democrat Party. Saying "white lives matter," or "All lives matter," is now forbidden among the black radicals who are trying to control the language (blacks are now the minority among the minority). They haven't even read the police statistics--more whites are killed by police and at a higher rate than blacks. The leading cause of death of black children under 5 is not guns or whites or police--it's the people who care for them--fathers, mothers, step-parents.  And 38% of abortions are for black babies. Obviously, someone in that "black lives matter" movement doesn't know or care that even black children in the womb and crib and Head Start have lives. Someone hasn't looked at the CDC stats on AIDS among young black men.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/bernie-sanders-netroots-nation-black-lives-matter/

This morning I watched a Fox News commentator Jehmu Greene call Donald Trump a douche bag on national TV; what does she call these Black Lives matter Lovers of Ignorance? And she applauds HuffPo for refusing to recognize Trump as a candidate (she uses him to smear all Republicans). But she refuses to address these crazies who took over an entire Netroots forum. How much does she get paid for this bias on Fox? She's a Liberian-American, another product of white privilege wearing a black mask.

I’m with Fred Kaan, Dutch hymn writer

“The post-war years witnessed an explosion of hymn writing that can loosely be categorised into two groups. There were those writers who worked in a traditional style, seeking to add their 20th-century contribution to the corpus of hymns used down the years by churches of all traditions. And there were those who introduced a new style of "worship song" designed to appeal to today's congregations.

Kaan was impatient with this second group, referring somewhat disparagingly to their songs as "the nursery rhymes of the church". His place was firmly with the former group, standing alongside the likes of Fred Pratt Green, Alan Gaunt and Brian Wren. His hymns, which include both original work and translations from a variety of languages, address the modern challenges to faith, notably issues of peace and justice, and are known and used right across the spectrum of Christian churches.”

His story.

Political posters

It’s not economics; it’s ideology

Katie Steinle, questions from Megyn Kelly for Obama

Kate’s murder has exploded into a national debate on illegal immigrants, sanctuary cities and crime,with the White House ducking the issue of its own acquiescence in these cities’ decisions to flout the federal immigration laws which were duly enacted.

When asked repeatedly this week to speak to this case, White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined to weigh in other than to refer folks to the Department of Homeland Security.

A stark contrast to what we saw after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson. A man whom we know was attacking a police officer at the time of his death. His funeral saw three Obama officials in attendance, his death drew comments from President Obama personally and his administration also sent in the DOJ and 40 FBI agents dispatched to Missouri after Michael Brown was killed.

Where is the swarm of agents in San Francisco?

Then there was Freddie Gray in Baltimore, a repeat drug offender who was killed in police custody. Here again his funeral was attended by three Obama administration officials and again the President spoke personally to Freddie Gray’s death. And again sent the DOJ in to investigate. When Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida, the president spoke to his death which was later ruled to be in self-defense.

But Katie Steinle, nothing. No comments, no swarm of FBI agents, no DOJ investigation, nothing. Why?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/07/09/megyn_kelly_why_is_obama_ignoring_murder_of_katie_steinle.html

Obama remains silent because he cannot make Steinle’s murder about himself.

Obama remains silent because her murder illustrates the dilemma with one of his schemes profoundly to transform the United States.

Obama remains silent because her murder illustrates the dilemma so indelibly.

Obama remains silent because Sanchez represents the politically incorrect illegal alien crime wave.

Obama remains silent because he cannot plausibly turn Steinle’s death to his narrow political advantage.

Scott Johnson, http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/07/the-meaning-of-obamas-silence.php

Lakeside’s Herb Class (Wednesday 8:30, Train station)

This week's herb group was on cinnamon. Large crowd probably because the weather eliminates anything else, and everyone knows what it is. We learned all about history and countries of origin, and difference with cassia. Donna Shoemaker submitted the recipe for Cincinnati's famous Skyline Chili which contains cinnamon. We all got a sample. It was delicious. I intend to try it. You can use it over spaghetti; or add red beans, or put it on a hot dog.

We were all big girls (plus 2 men and a boy) with probably combined 900 years in the kitchen, so no amounts were given in the recipe. Ground beef & pork, warm water, canned tomato sauce, tomato paste with water, dried yeast, fresh cinnamon, salt, fresh diced onions, fresh garlic, dash of paprika. Cook all together slowly, low heat 1-2 hours stove top or low in crock pot. If you need amounts, here’s a recipe.

On another delicious topic:

"Trail mix" sounds so healthy. I think it's from that eco-friendly 70s era. But today it means you're not burning up calories hiking in the woods, looking for grubs and berries, but sitting on the couch munching an addictive sweet/salty mix while watching unreality shows.

Democrats obsessed with race

Democrats are obsessed with Obama's race. I think it's left over from the days of Jim Crow and fighting lynch laws the Republicans proposed in Congress to protect blacks. If Obama makes a bad deal with our enemy Iran, then it's his race we don't like, not his treaty. If he destroys our health insurance system, then we are racist to complain when the system crashes, our medical records are vulnerable and rates go up. If he attacks Catholic nuns who are taking care of the elderly poor, then we must be paranoid birthers to not see the good intentions behind his destruction of our First Amendment rights.

Christians need to be examining who buys the fetal tissue

Christians, politicians and many secular pro-aborts were justly horrified by the recent video of a PP CEO discussing selling body parts of aborted babies. Well, are we showing equal horror at the research components of drug and medical companies (aka capitalists) that are buying them from supplier StemExpress? Using fetal tissue and embryos was never illegal, even during the Bush years, and Obama opened the Federal coffers to do so in 2009. That said, all major break throughs are using adult stem cells, not fetal.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/planned-parenthood-director-accused-of-selling-baby-body-parts-names-stemexpress-company-that-offers-fetal-liver-cells-for-24k-in-product-catalog-141600/

What is so unreasonable about negotiating for four Americans? He did it for Bergdahl and released five Taliban.

http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/16/obamas-annoyance-shows-major-garrett-asked-the-right-questions/

http://www.frantzradio.com/2015/07/13/obamas-iran-negotiation-worse-than-5-taliban-for-bowe-bergdahl/

Why can’t Obama take the tough questions? Bush did.

Buck Sexton writes:  “President Obama's response to Major Garrett today was snide, arrogant, and completely unbecoming of the Office of the President.

You can't ask this President a real question without being scolded.

You can't interrupt the administration's victory dance on this calamitous Iran deal without being punished.

...

It's preposterous to read the commentary from many on this who say the question was "disrespectful to Obama."

First of all, the question was completely legitimate. Not everything is about how awesome Obama needs to look all the time.

But more importantly- with 5 seconds of searching, you can find the kind of questions the press used to ask of President Bush, like this undermining, loaded question tossed at him back in 2006 that accuses him of being a liar and a warmonger:

"QUESTION [Helen Thomas]: I'd like to ask you, Mr. President -- your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime.

Every reason given, publicly at least, has turned out not to be true. My question is: Why did you really want to go to war? From the moment you stepped into the White House, your Cabinet officers, former Cabinet officers, intelligence people and so forth -- but what's your real reason? You have said it wasn't oil, the quest for oil. It hasn't been Israel or anything else. What was it?"

That's what disrespect looks like. “

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/21/bush.transcript/

Garden and storage sheds of Lakeside, pt. 5

The graceful, classic gable

I think the door is on the other side, and molding has been added to dress up the window.

I have my suspicions that this might be a reuse of a privy.

It’s difficult to see the colors, but this is behind the classic 19th c. cottage at 4th and Sycamore.  Nice details added.

Handsome and roomy dressed with a nice cupola. Cottage has a gambrel roof with lovely porch.

This is next to the Plymouth House as seen from parking lot.

Some garages become sheds, but I think this is a shed made in a garage design.  It has a foundation and sits above ground.

Somewhere there must be a pink cottage I can’t see. Very large door.

Garden and storage sheds of Lakeside, pt. 4

Gambrel, or barn roof, or Dutch Colonial

You’ll see a lot of gambrel roof styles because it offers the most storage space in the attic when compared to a gable or saltbox style shed roof and at Lakeside every little space counts.

The brick drive way and flower pots dress up this gambrel shed.

This one has extensions.

Healthy ferns add a nice touch and color match.

This one probably has some loft storage.

Obama and Kerry are laughing too

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