2945 Ross has been Rathered

So a blogger got the identity of the 21 year old former Congressional page (who was 18 at the time of the IM exchange with Foley) from the ABC servers which kept it available for 5 days. Hmmm. And the former page has hired a lawyer. Do you suppose he'll go after a penniless blogger or a deep pockets network television station for ruining his career? (He's working for an Oklahoman pol.) Hmmmm?

And the media and Democrats and even Republicans running for cover are still calling Foley's behavior "sick," even though it was with a consenting adult. What is this? Bash the nearest gay week?

Now that Hastert has brought in the big guns "for a thorough investigation," and we've found out the identity of the page who blew the whistle, and that some of the pages who knew Foley was gay were egging him on as a joke, I have this observation:

We wasted months on the Clinton sex scandal which probably did distract him from protecting the country--not his encounter with an intern, but the mess Republicans made of it trying to impeach him. Let's not tie up our very expensive talent in Washington with another consenting adults picadillo.

Only the lawyers are laughing. All the way to the bank.

Brian Ross
Dan Rather
Mark Foley
Dennis Hastert

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2943 Democrats are circulating a list

of gay Republican staffers. Nice touch. The magnanimous supporters of gay and lesbian rights, the folks pushing gay marriage legislation, seem to be saying there should be no gay Republicans, or that before a Republican hires a staffer, he much check into his or her sexual preference. Or maybe they'd prefer no gays at all in the government if it would bring down Bush?

"It would seem that if you can't win an election on the issues, you win it on outing the gay members of the opposite party. Color me not surprised. Politics as pure perversion. If the moderates of this country have come to believe that the Republicans are "capable of anything," just wait until they get a load of what the New! Improved! and Even More Degenerate Democrats can do." American Digest

The motive, of course, is to win congressional seats so they can impeach Bush. But does the gay community want to take the fall for this?

Here's what Gay Patriot has to say to Mr. Corn (the liberal with the list):

"Did it ever occur to Mr. Corn that the representatives and Senators he mentions that may or may not have gay staffers do not care about their sexual orientation yet value their participation as public servants? Is it not rational that you can hire a gay staffer, but at the same time oppose PUBLIC POLICY POSITIONS that you are morally or philosophically opposed to without being labeled a homophobe?

Perhaps Mr. Corn is ignoring the fact that most gay conservatives identify more strongly in our American Identity than our Gay Identity. Did that ever cross your mind, Mr. Corn? Probably not since you seem to have had no problem outing a CIA agent and then letting others take the fall for your actions." Gay Patriot on the Democrats' Witchhunt(Just an idiomatic expression for burning at the stake--I have a Witch who comments here)

Remember when John Kerry decided to "out" Dick Cheney's daughter--he personally doesn't care I'm sure, but he wanted to divide and conquer the Republicans so he threw her overboard. I see a pattern of gay intimidation here.

Mark Foley
Democratic Party

2942 Homophobia in Washington

Sometimes "homophobia" is just disgust by non-homosexuals; sometimes it is throwing your natural gay allies over the side of the boat for the sharks for political gain; and sometimes it is hate by fellow gays for homosexuals who pretend to be something else. All this and more is going on in the Halls of Congress and the Closets of the DNC and GOP.

I find it interesting and disgusting that a U.S. Congressman who happens to be a Republican, gets more press inches and words on cable and network news and pixels on blogs for his perverted Instant Messages than a heterosexual pervert who planned to tie up and rape little girls, but instead murdered them. If the little girls hadn't been Amish so that half of the story could be a popular culture rehash about the quaint Amish custom of forgiving enemies, that story would have been even smaller. If the pervert had gone after little boys, it might have been a match for the Foley story for a day or two. But girls and women are assaulted, raped, fondled and receive attention from "dirty old men" in positions of authority and power every minute of the day, and the press just looks the other way; as does Congress. (Unless it happens in Aruba.)

And even though the age of consent is 16 in DC, and the "children" were mature teens considered the best and brightest, able to live away from home in a sexual cesspool of political intrigue, and so far there is no evidence of kiddie porn being sent, groping, touching, fondling or oral sex with a subordinate, the Democrats continue with their phony outrage and real outing. They want every Republican who knew to resign.

Buried in the stories, usually at the bottom where stuff like this belongs, is the information that there's quite a political in-crowd of influential gays in DC whose loyalty transcends party. Sort of a bi-partisan, bi-sexual, buy-me-for-information-or-sex sort of club. Maybe it's not as dicey as the Barney Franks' lover running a gay sex-for-sale house, or Congressman Studds and his young page lover getting a wrist slap. But they are protecting each other, and obviously were protecting Mark Foley from harm. The Democrats, in hopes of disgusting the conservative base, have "outed" the whole smarmy mess.

So who are the real homophobes?

Update: I heard an interview this morning with the guy who took the Instant Messages off AOL and figured out who MAF54 was and who the page was, then tracked him to MySpace. At the time of the IMs, he was 18 and no longer a page and living in Oklahoma. Hmmm. Have they outed all these folks for consensual sex between gays?

2941 Old Aprons

Last November I started a memory blog using an old apron as my idea to jog my memory. Now here's a really cute apron blog. I think the whole blog's about this and using thrift store items for decorating. She's really good at using the colors and themes. The 40s and 50s colors, fabrics and dishes look a lot better in the 21st century than they did in the 20th!

2940 Would you be more likely to. . .

Last night I received a telephone political poll and I stayed on the line just for the jollies--it was so obviously slanted to the Democrats. The young man was so garbled and talked so fast that at first I thought it might be phone sex! If Democrats are using these polls to rally the troops, they are in trouble. John Kerry was in town yesterday campaigning, and I think there was even a question on him.

The questions are never gray or middle of the road or multiple choice. It was something like: "Are you perfectly 100% satisfied with the direction of this country, or is Bush taking us to Hell in a handbasket" (I'm paraphrasing here). No one is completely happy with Bush's performance. He's made a mess of immigration trying to satisfy the Democrats; he couldn't rally his own troops to straighten out and save Social Security; and on education he's spent money like a drunken Kennedy. When the final question was on Mark Foley, it was BINGO. Gotcha.

Here are the questions I'd like to hear from a pollster:

• Who is more likely to put radicals or progressives on the Supreme Court? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to raise your taxes? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to restrict our basic rights? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to let more illegals into the country? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to register them to vote? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to fight voter ID laws? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to try to destroy the largest employer in the world? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to want poor people to have your tax money, rather than lower priced consumer goods?
  
• Who are more likely to tell you the economy is tanking and is the worst since the Depression? The Democrats
  
• Who are more likely to blame a Republican President for being on vacation, rather than a Democratic Governor and Mayor who were on site? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to release private phone records to the media of a U.S. Congressman while screaming for protection of the phone records of international jihadists released to the Department of Justice? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to snoop in your pantry and your church pew? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to encourage you to abort your children? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to disrupt investment in medical drugs research and technology? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to have moles within the government who can provide leaks to the press? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to fail to protect our interests at home and abroad against terrorists?
  
• Who are more likely to abandon the Iraqi people as we did the Vietnamese? The Democrats.
  
• Who are more likely to stand up to Iran? North Korea? China? The Democrats. Yeah, that'll happen.
  
• Who are more likely to abandon Israel? The Democrats.
  

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2939 Squats

The cure for this.

2938 Calorie Restriction is . . . boring!

OK, so you live longer on a calorie restriction diet because it is better for your heart. Or does it just feel that way because it's no fun? Just eating half a hamburger and fewer French fries doesn't officially compute as "calorie restriction." Darn. You must be eating "nutrient dense." Garlic, lentils, chickpeas? Are you kidding me?

This may be artistic, but it is inaccurate. I don't think mushrooms or eggplant have any food value at all--but I suppose they take up space in your tummy.
Also, you should lose weight slowly. Losing quickly will actually shorten your life, not extend it.

Getting started with calorie restriction (very boring, and you probably already knew all this--I did).

This is the Journal of American College of Cardiology article (in common English) that I cited a few days ago.

"It may even be possible that eating a very low-calorie, nutrient dense diet reverses declines in diastolic function. People in the study averaged only six years on the diet, but their hearts looked 15 years younger." It probably felt like 15 years, too.

2937 Спутник

Not even my kids know this story. I'm not sure I've ever told anyone about how one little event that the whole world knew about completely changed the direction of my life. Спутник. Sputnik.

My date, D.B., and I were returning to Manchester College after seeing a movie in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and we heard about the Sputnik launch on the car radio. I doubt if I paid much attention to the news in those days, and even TV news, which I never saw until 1960 was only 15 minutes when I did start. But D.B. knew the score. He was a sophomore chemistry major and today we would call him a geek, but in 1957, he was just a brain. I was a freshman no-major and I'd describe myself if I could, but really have little memory of that girl's personality. But both of us were sort of overcome with a feeling of dread--that the Soviet Union was now going to overwhelm the United States. I imagine I listened to him explain the seriousness of it--because I still remember how frightened I was in those days of the Cold War.

A few weeks later I walked past an article posted on a bulletin board about the USSR's superiority in science and math, and it had a graphic of the cyrillic alphabet. I stopped to examine it and was fascinated--and made the instant decision I wanted to study Russian. Since Russian wasn't offered at Manchester, I would need to transfer. It was offered at the University of Illinois, my home state, and so I made preparations to transfer for my sophomore year.

And that's how I got to Columbus, Ohio, to take a position in the Ohio State University Library in Slavic, where I put down roots, raised a family, and retired (from the veterinary medicine library, not Russian, which I've totally forgotten), and started writing blogs. Thank you, Спутник.

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2936 Fall down go poof

My F: drive has stopped working. It recognizes files on a disk, I can even use them. But if I try to copy from my hard drive to a disk, it tells me to put a disk in. This means if I down load my photos to my computer I can't select and copy to a disk to have them printed, because the drive never finds the disk. Also can't back anything up on a disk. Anyone know what the problem is?

2935 Is Brian Ross being Rathered?

The amount of Foley material being amassed by Brian Ross at ABC, and the length of time he has held it just to release right before the election is "Rather" suspicious. Is it gay bashing when you get this explicit Mr. Ross, or is it a gay outing by a militant gay group mad at Foley for not supporting them, or is it just politics as usual for the Democrats and their media buddies who are hoping Republicans will split over this? There is no type face to compare as there was in the CBS Dan Rather meltdown, just some instant messages from "who knows who?" An astute page clever enough to save that many messages? My, he must have a future. If these are real, I'm surprised Foley was bright enough to run for dog catcher let alone Congress.

The folks behind the folks behind Ross.

Brian Ross
Dan Rather
Mark Foley

2934 Glenn Beck's off base today

He's horrified, as we all are, by the killing of school children in Pennsylvania yesterday. The man who picked up the Amish farmers' milk everyday slaughtered their daughters and granddaughters and no one knows why. It is so unthinkable that even finding a motive won't clear your brain. Glenn's website.

But Glenn is using one man's madness to launch an attack on modern society. Why I don't know. He's tossed in cell phones, Hollywood, mothers who work, and families not eating together into one big foul stew. I think a lot of things are wrong with society, like Nagin being reelected by the people he failed in New Orleans, like our former pastor's adultery, like allowing felons to work at our ports, like encouraging young girls to yearn for stick like bodies, like U.S. Moslems turning a blind eye to Jihadism. But no, I'm not going to accept any of the blame for one crazy milk man from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania who murders children after hugging his own good-bye at the bus stop.

Glenn Beck
Amish

2933 And if he were your boss or colleague?

What would you have done? Because I was a librarian, I worked with many, openly gay men (and some that were in the closet). Certain careers have been gay-friendly over the years, and gay men have enjoyed positions of prominence, power, and publishing in library science and technology. Back in the 60s we just assumed the aging spinster librarians living together were doing so for convenience and security--the fact that they were lesbians in long term relationships went right over my head.

I knew the monogamous and the promiscuous ones, and several who had also formerly been married. One of my former male employees was still married to his wife the last time he visited me, but he's now a she, so I'm a bit out of the loop on the sexual dynamics of that coupling. It's just more than I want to know. My favorite boss of many years was gay, and his long time partner was often included in social activities. Even in the weeks before he died and I visited him in hospice, he tried to be cheerful and up-to-date on what was happening at the library despite his pain. And so the dilemma of what Foley's colleagues knew and when they knew, hits close to home for me. I truly don't know what I would have done, because it is human nature to make excuses for the failings of friends and colleagues. And it is also human nature to guard your own career ladder and not chop off any of the rungs you need to advance.

Mark Foley was openly gay, his homosexuality apparently well-known on the Hill, and a Republican congressman from Florida. The mainstream media isn't praising his fellow Republicans for accepting him for years as a colleague and friend. No, Foley's homosexuality is never mentioned, but the "failure" of his colleagues and superiors to protect underage boys is. Tricky business, ratting on a friend, a superior, or a "protected" person in today's political climate, isn't it?

In today's upside down world of political correctness, Foley's colleagues' assumed failures are looming much larger in the media than his known disgusting behavior. I think ABC was the first to break the story. A story they sat on for some time before it was trotted out after the deadline for a new Republican to get on the Florida ballot. They showed even less concern "for the children" than Foley did.

There's an editorial about this in the Wall Street Journal today, which has implications for your job and community too. Here's my thoughts:

• Do you assume the colleague's behavior is predatory if you notice something odd,
• or do you wonder if you're being homophobic, or prudish if the colleague isn't gay
• Or are you afraid you'll be accused of being homophobic putting your own career in jeopardy if you say something?
• Do you ask or tell another colleague about it
• or is that gossip if your suspicions are groundless?
• Do you talk privately to the offending colleague or boss (yeah, boss, that's gonna happen!) assuming he won't torpedo your career at the next team evaluation?
• Would you instigated an investigation of e-mail at work?
• Would you go to the ombudsman or personnel director if you knew they were also homosexual, or known to be promiscuous
• Would you know which privacy laws you might be violating?
• Would your private discussion go into your personnel record?
• Do you assume gay men are going to be targeting gay boys?
• And what if the gay boys like and encourage the attention the same way straight teens enjoy attention?
• is this another round of political correctness because of the big push for children to become comfortable with their sexuality?
• Would you alert the child's parents, who may not even be aware of his sexual orientation.

Yes, a lot to think about before you rat out a colleague.

It's my blogiversary

Three years ago today I started blogging. Counting my group blog and my LIS journal and my six other blogs besides this one, I show a little over 4200 entries. Then I went back and filled in October 1, because it didn't look tidy. And I'm really posting this on October 3, because I forgot the date.

2932 Rush was right

While listening to Rush on my walk today, I heard him say that Republicans wouldn't know how to smear cream cheese on a bagel, referring to how Democrats are bringing out various smear stories in the remaining weeks before the election. "Oh come on--don't you remember Lewinsky?" I said to myself. "Or Condit?" "Or Kennedy?" "Or labor unions' links with mafia?" or when Dick Armey called Barney Frank, Barney Fag (although that's not exactly a smear).

However, when I brought up Explorer today, my RoadRunner news flashed the story, "Scandal rocks GOP." So I typed that into Google and got about 1.5 million. I only glanced at 10-20. Then (since there is not an equivalent acronym for the Dems) I tried DNC, but those were mostly about the DNC smearing Republican candidates written by angry bloggers. Then I tried with quotes, "scandal rocks Democrats" and I think I got 3 or 4. Republicans never even got a good shot at Sandy Berger, even though I'd be in jail if I tried to do what he did.

Rush was right. They couldn't smear a bagel. Or the media is awfully silent when the page is on the other hand.

Monday Memories

Last week my husband took some of his watercolor paintings up to Delaware, OH for an art show. All were accepted. So today's Monday Memories is a photo from the Upper Arlington Art Show of 1975. This show started as an art exhibit for local artists in 1966 near the Miller Park Library with about a dozen artists. Don Dodrill, a painter friend of ours got the ball rolling. Then when it outgrew that space, it moved to Jones Middle School for a few years, then up to the city building on Kenney Road, across from the OSU golf course. That's where this photo was taken. The show is now in Northam Park each Labor Day and attracts tens of thousands.

1975 Labor Day Art Show
Although we have lots of paintings in our house, and many at our children's and relatives' homes, we also buy art. We bought 2 watercolors in Russia this summer, and here is the painting we bought from Don Dodrill, the founder of the Upper Arlington Labor Day show.

This is a bit fuzzy, but I wanted Don in the picture.

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2930 It may come back to bite them

The left branch media and those that like salacious news stories (that about covers it, doesn't it) should probably slow down on this Congressman Foley story. They are shifting the spotlight from the one to blame and making noise about the lack of supervision by other Republicans. Yeah, like the Democrats supervised Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton's sexual behavior. They got reelected.

However, The Man-Boy sex lobby is much bigger with Democrats than Republicans; after the gay marriage and polygamous marriage lobbies finish with us, saying we're denying civil rights to people who are just doing what's natural for them, we'll hear a lot more from the pedophiles. I'd show you the websites of both gays and lesbians who promote sex with minors, but I don't want them dribbling their cookies on my hard drive.

Why Foley's checked himself into alcohol rehab, I don't know. Alcoholics don't become pedophiles from pickling their brains. Pedophiles have screwed up values and might drink on the side to forget their problems. No 10 step program is going to help him. In our 21st century world, people who have sex outside the marriage bed (as described in the Bible), whether it is with their own gender, their neighbor's wife, or their uncle's dog, want to claim all that matters is their feelings. Foley is in the group that thinks sex with male children is his natural right.

Foley is obviously a gay pedophile, just like there are heterosexuals who are pedophiles. Or the bi-sexual, married blonde female teacher having sex with young male students is another example. That doesn't mean all gay men solicit underage males, but a lot do, and they have their own political agenda. That agenda is to decriminalize sex between minors and adults. They're hoping to get the law changed so they don't go to jail, in my opinion, or they want legal, disease-free sex. Sure, the rest of us call this abomination pedophilia, but they don't.

Democrats can be outed for all sorts of kinky, illegal and weird behavior and get reelected. It just doesn't seem to work for Republicans. For that I'm glad and I said good riddance, Mr. Foley.

2918 Two political sleazeballs

Don Surber's got a good one today about the Democrat's glee about Foley, the Florida Congressman caught with his pants almost down chasing some male pages via the internet while writing legislation to protect children. However, their own sleaze monkey, former Governor McGreevey, was allowed to time his resignation so the Dems didn't lose the office and then appeared on Oprah as a victim. Oh yes, and a book. Always a book. And since I'm retired, I'll just suggest you go into the stacks and find it by yourself. But look out for the weirdos. They aren't all on the internet.

2917 A cancer blog

Larry Sievers writes a Cancer Blog at NPR. It's pretty interesting because he addresses many of the thoughts and platitudes that appear in the lives of the survivors, patients, family, friends and co-workers. The above link is to the entry on how a cancer patient should respond to a smoker.

Update: Sievers died in August 2008. This link no longer works.

My vote would be for knocking him down and stomping on his cigarettes, but I was definitely in the minority. See comments.

Every teenager who thinks it looks so cool to light up and have smoke burn your eyes and nose and make you stink should read Ruth's comment:

"I have smoked since I was 13-years-old and I am 61 now. Smoking to me is like second nature. Yes I have tried to quit but without success. In my life I've been told that I have achieved things others could not do on their own. I lost over 60 lbs with sheer will power and kept it off. I used to drink vodka everyday; I knew it was not good for me but couldn't stop for the longest time. I no longer drink today, sheer willpower. I've been told if you could quit eating and drinking you should be able to quit smoking, but I just can't. I have cancer and am going to have surgery to remove (hopefully) the entire tumor within 30 days. I've finished the pre surgery chemo, it did shrink it a little bit so now I have to see one more doctor, a lung doctor and were ready to schedule. I have esophageal/stomach cancer, I'll have two surgeons operating, one on my stomach and one maybe on my chest. I know I'm a damn fool but I think the only way I can quit smoking, is if they lock me up, which is about to happen. I have to stay in the hospital between seven and ten days, it scares me to death. Wish me the best. No lectures please."

2916 The Truth is Inconvenient

"In May, our nation was exposed to perhaps one of the slickest science propaganda films of all time: former Vice President Gore’s "An Inconvenient Truth." In addition to having the backing of Paramount Pictures to market this film, Gore had the full backing of the media, and leading the cheerleading charge was none other than the Associated Press.

On June 27, the Associated Press ran an article by Seth Borenstein that boldly declared “Scientists give two thumbs up to Gore's movie.” The article quoted only five scientists praising Gore’s science, despite AP’s having contacted over 100 scientists. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2006-06-27-inconvenient-truth-reviews_x.htm

The fact that over 80% of the scientists contacted by the AP had not even seen the movie or that many scientists have harshly criticized the science presented by Gore did not dissuade the news outlet one bit from its mission to promote Gore’s brand of climate alarmism. http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=257909

I am almost at a loss as to how to begin to address the series of errors, misleading science and unfounded speculation that appear in the former Vice President’s film Here is what Richard Lindzen, a meteorologist from MIT has written about "An Inconvenient Truth." "A general characteristic of Mr. Gore's approach is to assiduously ignore the fact that the earth and its climate are dynamic; they are always changing even without any external forcing. To treat all change as something to fear is bad enough; to do so in order to exploit that fear is much worse." http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008597 "

From "Hot & Cold Media Spin: A Challenge To Journalists Who Cover Global Warming" speech by Senator James Inhofe, Chairman, Senate Enivornment and Public Works Committee, September 25, 2006

The one area I might disagree with Sen. Inhofe, is when he says, "The American people know when their intelligence is being insulted--when they are being used and duped." For starters, that's almost a campaign slogan used both by the right and left. But more tragically, I meet a lot of gullible people who have swallowed these lies and truly believe that humans have the power to control the climate. They have refused to look at centuries of climate data and trends and can only remember a decade of mild winters, or last year's hurricanes, if that. The previous global warming scare was around the time I was born, so mostly I remember the coming ice age scare of the 70s and 80s. That's warmed up a bit now. The Gullibles (or Democrats or Humanists) don't want to look at the Kyoto results, or the increasing population of polar bears, or the huge sums environmental groups spend on political campaigns. They just want to be afraid, worried, and in power.

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An Inconvenient Truth

See also:

http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=212247
http://epw.senate.gov/pressitem.cfm?party=rep&id=213589