Another dumb poster collected from Facebook (the people, not the art)

 

This is an example of how dumb the whiners on the left are (probably feeling the Bern and owing a lot of school debt). Agriculture is the most regulated industry in the country, and it's not capitalists who set the high standards for health, sanitation, weight, labeling, crop insurance, pesticide use, perfection, shipping, distribution, inspection, labor laws, import, export, etc., it's the local, state, and federal governments plus directives and policies. I wonder when the last time was that this poster picked up the wormy and bruised apple or the rotten potato instead of the one that was firm, quality tested and attractive. And no one in the U.S. goes hungry; the main job of the USDA is to distribute food.  For example:

 https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/moa/dairy

 https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/paca

https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/sci-contacts 



 “Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing and Holding of Produce for Human Consumption” regulation under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). The webinar will be led by Leanne Skelton, Biological Science Specialist with the AMS SCP and the USDA’s FDA Liaison, and Dr. Samir Assar, Director of FDA’s Division of Produce Safety.  Just a sample how you can learn about regulations.

Respect for supporters

Ayesha writes: "I do not talk much about what I do not like about Trump though I could smile emoticon but one thing I noticed and didn't like about his rally setup is he likes to rip people off on their time. If you know you only have 3000 seats to fill why 18000 tickets be given out? Because it looks good. The Optics work. But you know what I know a lot of people who stood in those lines that could have been home with their families or working If they knew they weren't going to get in. Ted Cruz on the other hand will go , all we have is 2000 seats so guess what we will give out 2000 tickets. That's class, that's respect, that's not trying to play people. Just saying ‪#‎ChooseCruz‬ ‪#‎TheRealDeal‬ ‪#‎TedCruz‬ ‪#‎CruzCrew

Can you cite the crime reports?

There have apparently been a minuscule number of cases of men "transitioning"--dress, nails, estrodiol supplements, but still in tact--who have been assaulted when using the men's room. That's really unfortunate, but I've never seen a published crime or health report report about it. What I have seen is the 40% suicide rate and ridiculously high STD rate for transgendered male to female. Now that is reported in the medical literature, as well as high incarceration rate and homelessness, plus liver, cancer and heart problems from the hormones. In the social science soft literature, we're all to blame for their behavior and unhappiness. But why wouldn't the LGBTQ community go for the big prize of helping their fellow members instead of putting 51% of the population at risk for sexual assault?

 http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/transgender/

 http://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-social-issues/key-affected-populations/transgender

 http://www.vocativ.com/culture/lgbt/transgender-suicide/

Hillarycare and ELCA

I used to be a Democrat, and voted for Bill Clinton.  I left the reservation in 2000, and some of my ire was at Hillary for her universal health care plan, when she was FLOTUS, and some was at her philandering husband.  I retired that year from OSU and no longer had to worry about being a Democrat with conservative values. But a 1993 letter shows the worm was turning much earlier.

While cleaning yesterday I came across a  November1993 letter I'd written to The Lutheran, organ of ELCA, the largest Lutheran synod in the U.S.  At the time I didn't know ELCA's position on abortion (anytime for any reason), or I may have left our church.  The magazine had carried a "Special Report: Health Care," and it seems to be written by Lawrence O'Connell S.T.D.  The initials aren't for sexually transmitted diseases, but doctorate in sacred theology. That said, it's HillaryCare. I don't know who gave him that degree, but I give him an F for ethics, after going on-line and checking out various boards, committee, and positions he's held.

The heart of my letter (ELCA didn't respond nor did O'Connell) : "Instead of placing personal responsibility for good health as first, the task force put it number 13.  We would not have a need for such a document or billions spent on health care if it were not for abuse of alcohol, cigarettes, food and sexual behavior.  Once those health problems, all of which are personally manageable, are set aside, we can afford the rest with pocket change."

I go on to ask how is it ethical for O'Connell to decide I should pay the social and economic costs of someone else's abortion, drunk driving, obesity, STDs or even failure to floss?  where is the justice in "redistributing" our resources? Hasn't socialism, which is what "redistribution" and "communal sharing of risks" means, shown itself to be a complete failure in Eastern Europe and the USSR?"

Hannah Marie Tracy Cutler, Ohio author

Hannah Marie Tracy Cutler was known as "Maria" when writing for The Ohio Cultivator and also "Aunt Patience" when she began an advice column in 1849.  She wrote a series called "Letters to Housekeepers," published between the two Mrs. Batehams, and games and entertainment. In 1851 she reported from the London Peace Congress and World's Fair. She was an advocate of Bloomerism (pants for women). She also wrote for Cleveland Herald and western magazines. Mrs. Cutler was president of the Ohio Woman's Rights Association and the mother of Melane Tracy, who also wrote for The Ohio Cultivator.  Some of her speeches can be found in History of Woman Suffrage.

    A widow with young children, whose husband was killed by a mob after aiding escaping slaves, she married Samuel Cutler after returning from a year traveling through Europe and sending articles to the Cultivator.  The wedding announcement noted that both had worked for the Deaf and Dumb Asylum of Columbus.  After moving to the Illinois prairie, she continued to write but changed her topics to more domestic themes and agricultural topics.

    Traveling from Marietta, Ohio to Wheeling and then to Akron, she took in stride the steamboat, canal packet, a stage coach and the railroad. "Incidence of Travel" described a train ride from Cincinnati to Indianapolis to attend a fair during which two young boys offered standing women their seats but none of the men did.

    From Illinois she wrote to the sisters, daughters, cousins and friends of the Cultivator in 1860:
I used to seek to arouse the daughters of my beloved land to a sense of their high responsibility in the discharge of those innermost social duties, that cluster round the home, and give purity and dignity to the private as well as the public life of the nation. . . Has the seed germinated?. . . Attending the settlement of a new country has left me little leisure. . . still I have found some time to devote to the instruction of my sisters. . . so that old age should be like the ripe autumn of my year.

    She wrote Phillipia, a woman's question (Dwight, IL: C. L. Palmer printing house, 1886). In addition to writing for the Farmer and the Cultivator, she also wrote for The Ohio Statesman and the Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter. Many columns are signed H.M.T.C. She died in 1896.

I was cleaning up computer disks today, and decide to rescue dear Hannah, or H.M.T.C. There's more know about her today than when I took these notes 25 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Tracy_Cutler

Spring cleaning

These are not my bags, but close enough

I'm cleaning the laundry room.  I decided I'd do a massive Spring cleaning. I'm so pooped, I may not get much further. I'm having a glass of wine. I did get one huge bag dropped off at Volunteers of America, and have another one in the car.  Some nice craft stuff, and this batch has a huge container of cookie cutters. I didn't even know I still had them. If I'd wanted to bake Neno's cut out sugar cookies, I would have never guessed second cabinet to right of washing machine in a Tupperware container. 

I found a sack of stuff on the art cabinet, opened it and found about 5 pair of my husband's glasses, old prescriptions, with the lens cleaner (4-5 bottles) and cloths. I scrubbed the shelves and the notebooks, because some sort of brown mold seems to grow on things in the lower level. I had a huge amount of blue-green polished glass pieces.  I think I used to keep them in a bowl, but hadn't seen them in years, so first I washed and dried them then put them in a glass jar with a lid.  See why this takes so much time.  Washing things before giving them away.

Everyone my age seems to be doing this--sort of the opposite of nest building.  We're un-building. We know our kids don't want this stuff and don't want them pawing through it saying, "Good Lord, why did she save this?"