Why wasn't a 92% death rate enough?

Better science doesn't always mean a better life (Nov 2005). At least not a Down Syndrome baby. A faster, more accurate test for Down Syndrome.

Published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (Nov. 10, 2005 issue), the study is known as the FASTER trial (First and Second Trimester Evaluation of Risk). It was funded by a $13 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – one of the largest ever grants for an obstetrical study.

But even in 1998 the termination rate following a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome was 92 per cent Research here.Think of it. $13 million of our tax money so parents and doctors can know even earlier. Does an earlier abortion cause less guilt? Less grief as the years go by?

Dear Heather MacDonald

While on my walk this morning I listened to your complete interview on Laura Ingraham [your article here]. As I understand it, when you go to the polls in 3 weeks you are choosing between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, not Obama and McCain. You think Obama has a better grasp of economic issues than Palin because he is articulate, thinks things through and has degrees from prestigious institutions (you didn't actually say that, but it was implied with typical east coast arrogance). Also, although Obama isn't staying home with his children and believes Down Syndrome babies should be aborted, you finally conceded when pushed by Ingraham that Palin should stay home with her baby, because that is the traditional conservative view.

Here are five points you overlooked.

1) Of the four people running for office (and you're right either Joe or Sarah could become president the day after the inauguration), Sarah Palin is
a) the only one with conservative credentials, and
b) the only one with balls.

2) Of the four people running for office, Sarah Palin is the only one who didn't have the opportunity in 2006 to turn this Fannie/Freddie subprime mess around and save the economy. John McCain tried for more regulation, Joe Biden and Barack Obama sided with all the other Democrats and fought it. These three Senators failed to save us.

3) Of the four people running for office, most of the Congress, the President, most of the cabinet, and most especially the Ben and Hank club, Sarah Palin is the only one who did NOT go to one of those prestigious schools like Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard or Columbia.

4) Of the four people running for office, Palin is the only one who doesn't stammer and stutter off teleprompter, who hasn't been coached to lie to us through nonsensical press interviews. Although I'm plenty sick of the phrases "Joe Six-Pack" and "Hockey-Moms" and might have preferred a ticket of say Mitt Romney and Condi Rice, conservatives didn't want a Mormon, and Democrats don't allow black women, even Republicans, to leave the plantation.

5) And read the research, Heather. It is the marriage of women to the father that reduces poverty among children, not whether she stays home or works. The idea behind welfare was a government plan to keep women at home with the children. See how well that worked out?

Where is the laundress when you need her?

Last week I did some ironing--and tackled a bit more this morning. The Laundress seems to be rather erratically blogging these days. I don't know if she had as much laundry as she claimed, but it was always interesting.

The 20 lbs I lost 2 years ago have been creeping back since our trip to Ireland last September, to which was added all that pasta in Italy in June. So I got out some cotton slacks that were too big for me the winter of 2006 but now are bulging where they shouldn't. There's a rule of thumb in weight loss--5 lbs is a dress size (assuming you aren't obese). This rule doesn't work for slacks, at least not for the pear shaped maiden/woman. For slacks, it's the rule of thigh, not thumb. I'd guess 7 lbs, and you've blown it. Although it probably depends on where you carry your weight. Say what you want about Hillary's legs, but this is the healthiest body style--slim waist, heavy thighs and legs. Sure, you don't get those Hollywood or modeling jobs, and no one chases you at the beach, but you also are less likely to have heart attacks, diabetes and breast cancer as you age.

This week I packed up at least 5 or 6 pair of slacks and jeans that ranged from size 4 to 8, (expensive brands have a come-on of smaller size tags), all purchased at the Discovery Shop for about $4 each. Some were wool, some cotton, some poly-whatever blend. I'm back in the 10s, at least until I can get control of that craving for Pumpkin ice cream that is only available this time of year. In the fall I'm like a squirrel preparing for a long winter.

The house is loaded with food I don't usually keep on hand. We got the bad news Monday that our house guests won't be coming--she's in the hospital in Alexandria, VA with pneumonia. And since they live in Huntington Beach, CA, they aren't too happy about that. So having too much food around is a small problem compared to what these dear loved ones are going through. It's never fun to be hospitalized, but if you have to be, better close to home where you have your own doctor, and your kids are near by.

So if your prayer list isn't already jammed, please add a total stranger, sister Kate.

Are you an artist?

Here's some instruction on the web by James Gurney that will make you weep with envy and fill you with resolve to get all those supplies out and ready to go! I used to do that sketching trick from the van windows when we'd travel back from Lake Erie with watercolor pencils.

Why Blacks are supporting Obama

1) He's pro-life, 2) he won't withdraw the troops until the job is done, 3) Sarah Palin is his VP choice. Wow.



HT Dr. Sanity and Cheat Seeking Missiles

If you were poor or low income

sitting on the edge of the bottom quintile, hoping to move up a notch, which would you prefer:

1. a job in an Ohio coal mine in Appalachia at $25/hour, or a job at an interstate McDonald's at $8/hour serving the people from Columbus and Cleveland who come down to see the fall colors in Appalachia


2. the opportunity to shop at a Walmart on the outskirts of your community once a week, or driving 60 miles after filling the tank for the round trip to a Walmart 2 counties away to shop once a month


3. living in your humble 2 bedroom home which grandpa bought in a not so great neighborhood near your friends and church, or being pushed into a balloon mortgage out in the suburbs by developers who bought the land with the help of city council rezoning to "revitalize" the down town


4. being denied access to military recruiters who might make promises and come through on 50% of them, or hang out on the street corners with your friends and do a few drugs


5. a job that has potential but no guarantees, or the security of a steady income stream from WIC, low income housing support, food stamps and SCHIP


6. a used automobile that's not very fuel efficient or bus transportation that might get you within 2 miles of shopping and the doctor's office


7. a used automobile that's not very fuel efficient or a fancy 10 speed bike and snappy lycra shorts with matching helmet

Don't answer based on your income or education in 2008, answer truthfully what you would do if your income was $20,000 a year. Think local, not global, as the tree huggers would say. You can't create another scenario. This is my fantasy, not yours.

The Death Penalty

Unlike many Democrats who support the death penalty for inconvenient or impaired babies, and many Republicans who will save babies but not wretched criminals, I do not support the death penalty. But if I did, Ohio's own fatso complainer, who first claimed he was too fat, then that he got fat in prison, surely deserved it. If you want to read more about this worthless piece of slime, for whom Jesus gave his life because all of us are fallen and don't live up to God's standard of perfection, read Cheat Seeking Missiles.

Anthropogenic global climate change

That big word means simply, "human caused,"--it's the same word stem as "anthopology" the study of humans, or "anthopomorphic," giving God human qualities or attributes. Anthropogenic global climate change theories and worries may be the absolute height of ANTHROPOCENTRICITY, the belief that humans are the most significant entity of the universe and everything must be interpreted in terms of our experience, especially science. Are you ready to come down a notch or two.

The human contribution to the greenhouse effect is 0.28%. Ocean biologic activity, volcanoes, decaying plants, animal activity, etc. (none of which we can control) accounts for 4.72%, and 95% of it is caused by water vapor. Feel better now? Less guilty or more helpless? If these stats make you feel more helpless, it's because of your wanting to feel powerful, the root is your anthropocentricity. If you feel less guilty, then you probably suspected all along they were feeding you a load of crap.

And here's some more. The human contribution to sources of CO2 emissions is 3.4%. Nature does the rest--96.6%.

Every region, state and city seems to be writing and passing standards and legislation for either green house gases, or CO2 emissions or both while we the voters watch Dancing with the Stars or cheer the Buckeyes or pull our hair out over the Bengals. Wake up America. They are stealing our country (what we haven't already destroyed with sloth, gambling, pornography, hedonism, and turning away from God) with massive e-regulations you never voted on that will put Kyoto to shame. The EPA is expanding at such a rate, that the head may soon have to fight Hank Paulson to determine who is the most powerful!

Ohio is already loaded with this alternative-save-the-planet stuff, with only lip service being given to the economic advantages of clean coal, which is God's stored sunshine and energy just waiting for us to be grateful. And don't you think the rest of the country isn't eyeing Lake Erie--the next battle over water will make fights over oil look like squabbles on the playground!

Read this policy analysis on the expanding authority of the EPA.

A financial crisis, not an economic crisis

Could have fooled me, but here's what an expert says. And wasn't it the experts that got us into this mess?

It turns out that John McCain, who was widely mocked for saying that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong," was actually right. We're in a financial crisis, not an economic crisis. We're not entering a second Great Depression, says Casey B. Mulligan is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago.

How do we know? Well, the economy outside the financial sector is healthier than it seems.Daily Policy Digest, digesting Casey B. Mulligan, "An Economy You Can Bank On," New York Times, Oct. 10, 2008

Following the Jennifer Brunner story

Maggie is on top of this. Check out her story If you Democrats think your guy is so great, there's no need for him to steal the election. And you Republicans keep in mind the local elections matter too.

"Acorn -- the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now -- has been around since 1970 and boasts 350,000 members. Acorn is now getting more attention as John McCain's campaign makes an issue of the fraud reports and Acorn's ties to Barack Obama. It's about time someone exposed this shady outfit that uses government dollars to lobby for larger government, says the Wall Street Journal." Read more.

Bailing with a hole in the bucket

Guest blogger Murray says:

I know that you know it is not too comforting knowing that the same people who allowed this country's subprime mortgage crisis to happen are the ones that our government put in charge of fixing it. I also know that you know that they really don't have the slightest knowledge how to fix it. I also know that you know that this is really a bailout to the Wall Street high flyers and the sleazy investment banking business. Now they are adding the very bankers that caused the stink to the team assigned to fix the problem. It seems that once you're in bed with them you can't get rid of them. Kinda like bedbugs.

Since it's the subprime mortgages that are the basis of the problem I would think the first thing they would do is put a stop to making these ridiculous loans. They have not done this. Banks and mortgage companies are still creating such loans. You can go to google and ask for "low price no money down mortgages" and you'll find all kinds of ads for these kinds of loans. It's pretty obvious to me that if we don't stop loaning with no money down and bad credit the "bailout" will go on forever.You can even apply on line. Here are a couple of examples:

http://www.mortgage-helper.com/zerodown.html

http://www.forthebestrate.com/no-money-down-mortgage.aspx

OK, the damage has been done. Our astute legislators are throwing billions of our hard earned tax dollars all over the place. They say not to worry cause the are going to sell these worthless mortgage packages and they will get the money back. Why... they say we might even make a profit!! Well, let me tell you. IF THEY DO FIND SOMEONE DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY THESE WORTHLESS PACKAGES JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY WILL DO WITH THE MONEY? Pay it towards the national debt? No, No, NO..... They will do the same thing they always do. THEY WILL SPEND IT. Folks, once they voted to spend that 700 billion, that money was spent never to return. That money can only be returned by you and I. The tax man cometh. If OBAMA gets elected it will come immediately. Find a way to protect yourself. Your first attempt would be to vote for McCain as feeble as that may be.

MURRAY

Why can't OSU cite its own or peer reviewed research?

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. It's happened twice now in about 6 weeks. If I see something health related in my OSU human resources site I think I should expect something other than shilling for an anti-aging supplement company. I noticed an article under Wellness about Vitamin D and immunity. It's flu season so I clicked on it and it brought up an interesting page (reformated from the original) about vitamin D research. I made the assumption I was reading research from the University's canyons of labs, offices, gov't grants and libraries, but by the time I started rolling through footnotes that began with #25, I realized something was wrong. So I scrolled to the bottom and got a link to Life Extension Magazine, a pop-health webpage that sells anti-aging supplements! And it wasn't even current--it was almost 2 years old!

The first time I was caught was a scare story about plastic baby bottles--that link led to an advocacy page loaded with the words, "might," "could," "it is thought," and nothing concrete out of thousands of studies.

If an OSU researcher has a break through, ah-ha moment, and it's out there at a popular science or consumer health website, by all means, let us know. But don't be making stuff up, folks, and sending off to buy supplements.

Meet the most powerful man in the world

until January 20, 2009. Who said you wouldn't get to the top with a degree in English (the degree of choice for directionless students when I was in school)?


Henry Merritt Paulson, Jr., was born on March 28, 1946, in Palm Beach, Florida. He graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor's degree in English in 1968 and from Harvard University with a master's degree in business administration in 1970.

Paulson began his career as a staff assistant to the assistant secretary of Defense from 1970 to 1972. He then became a member of the White House Domestic Council in the administration of Richard Nixon, serving as a staff assistant to the President from 1972 to 1973.

After his time in Washington, D.C., Paulson joined Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, at their Chicago offices in 1974. He became partner in 1982, and from 1983 until 1988 he was the head of the Investment Banking Services for the Midwest region. In 1988, he became managing partner of the Chicago office, and in 1994, he was appointed to the position of President and chief operating officer. In 1999, he became chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs.

President George W. Bush nominated Paulson as secretary of the Department of Treasury in 2006, and the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed him on June 28, 2006. As the seventy-fourth secretary of the Treasury, Paulson is the leading policy adviser to the President on domestic and international economic affairs.

From The American Presidents On line reference source at Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904

Marxism, a refresher

All history, according to marxism (named for Karl Marx 1818-1883) is a struggle between the exploiter (in modern times, the capitalist) and the exploited (the worker). The struggle will only cease when capitalism is destroyed and a classless society exists. The golden age arrives when private property, marriage, nationality, and religions are abolished. Religion is a tool of the oppressor, as are conventional or traditional ethics and idealism (including humanism and liberalism). High on the list of marxist ideals are concern for public health, a sense of public duty (even if it has to be required), mutual respect, moral purity, modesty, brotherhood above family, race and class, and a solidarity with working people everywhere. Fraternity with capitalists, of course, is excluded from these principles, and class hatred is permitted for the cause of assuring justice. For Christians, this is most clear in Liberation Theology and Black Liberation Theology, both of which have made great inroads in both conservative and liberal Christian groups, who have become impatient to "bring in the Kingdom" while expelling God and replacing him with "the poor."

Beginning in Latin America, Liberation Theology is based on the belief that the Christian Gospel demands "a preferential option for the poor," and that the church should be involved in the struggle for economic and political justice in the contemporary world—particularly in the Third World. Dating to the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and the Second Latin American Bishops Conference, held in Medellin, Colombia (1968), the movement brought poor people together in Christian-based communities, to study the Bible and to fight for social justice. However, since the 1980s, the church hierarchy has criticized liberation theology and its advocates, accusing them of wrongly supporting violent revolution and Marxist class struggle” (Columbia University Encyclopedia 2004).

Black Theology developed alongside Latin Liberation Theology and had its roots in the Civil Rights and the Black Power movements of the 1960s. In the process, many “black ministers consciously separated their understanding of the gospel of Jesus from white Christianity and identified it with the struggles of the black poor for justice.” Rev. Wright correctly credits two books written by James Cone, “Black Theology and Black Power” in 1969 and “A Black Theology of Liberation” in 1970, that made liberation the organizing centre of his theological system and subsequently of many Black churches.While Latin Liberation Theology was concerned with classism and Black Theology was concerned with racism, both held a common concern for the poor (Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology 1984). Orthodoxy Today

Liberalism used to mean free from restraint, particularly from a system, like the church or a federal or national government. It eventually came to promote the interests of the middle class which included helping the disadvantaged and minorities, non-violence and environmentalism because in the long run, liberals would benefit. In past years, liberals and marxists were hand shaking enemies because marxists can't tolerate personal freedom. But liberals were much more hostile toward conservatives who see justice as a moral code existing outside their own vested interests (usually but not always, God), so increasingly liberals in the USA have assisted and promoted and been swallowed up by the marxists.

Barack Hussein Obama is not a Muslim, he is a Christian and a marxist as illustrated above--they are not necessarily incompatible. If your "Christian" label pre-dates Liberation Theology, you'll just have to adjust. Get over it. But whatever label you give him, he hates capitalism, which means he is not good for America and your 401-K or your annuities or your health plan (or Europe, or the struggling Third World economies, for that matter). This is clear in the way he has taken advantage of the huge meltdown of capitalism in the past month, almost prematurely dancing on its grave, while rushing in with the claim that he will save us from the jaws of death. He is funded and backed by notorious criminals both here and abroad, progressives and marxists who go by a variety of names--like George Soros, Moveon.org, Hate America First, Daily Kos Kids, and ACORN who are about to dismantle our right to vote, and then will go after our freedom of information. I would add the feminists in that marxist crowd, except they're the only ones who are true to their team and have stayed poor--they haven't been much use to him except to make the coffee like the good old days of the 60s.

Some Christians amaze me

Not because of their good works, or their awesome miracles, their faith that moves mountains, but because they have any faith at all. I was reading Andy's account of the death watch at his father's bed. We've done this twice--in 1996 for my sister and my husband's step-father. You are with them, and yet they aren't there. But I didn't rush to the hospitals in Bradenton and Indianapolis loaded with personal baggage. How much harder that would have made saying good-bye. Andy writes:

We had a good week anyway. We laughed a lot, and cried a little. We spent time with funeral home staff members, lawyers, doctors, and nurses, but we still had a lot of time left over to reminisce, to compare memories and to try to make some sense out of the chaos of a home that featured an alcoholic, crazy mother and a philandering, adulterous father who would grab his car keys and drive away whenever the butcher knives appeared, my mother’s weapon of choice to torment the kids. He ran away from us all his life. Now he can’t run anymore.

He’s left behind a mess. His estate, such as it is, was left to a former roommate who is now dead. His latest will, which was supposed to designate my Columbus sister Cathy as the recipient of his home, was never signed, and so the good State of Ohio gets to figure it all out. My dad’s house apparently goes to the estate of the former roommate. Whoopee. I’m washing my hands of the whole affair, even though technically I’ve been named as the executor of his will. It’s what I told him I would do, and would not do when he told me he was leaving the house to his roommate. I refuse to execute injustice, at least if I can help it.

Many days I remember to thank God for my fine, upright, honest parents, who worked hard and loved their children and extended family, always available for moral and economic support. And I ask forgiveness for the many times I was cranky or short with them when they didn't see things my way. After all, they weren't "fun," they rarely talked about our accomplishments (would be unseemly), we didn't take vacations, they often ignored my demands for more attention, they insisted that I do the right thing, be respectful and have good manners. I had to go to church, had to earn my own way, had to do well in school (actually, they never, ever said that--it was my own idea based on what I thought they wanted). They wouldn't take my kids off my hands when I was desperate for a break and oftened ignored my own failures at parenting, and just looked the other way! My Dad could be so casual about money that one time he sent me $10,000 (coupon bond) in the U.S. mail uninsured with no information or explanation about what it was. Even when I was 60 years old he thought he needed to remind me to put on an apron, but by then I could get back at him by hugging him, something not on his list. Some of the best times I had with Dad were the last two years of his life, and I still wonder why we waited so long. And when their time this side of eternity was over, they simply closed their eyes and were gone. Then there are the days I completely forget about them and think I got here all on my own, without their genes, love, hard work and discipline. Andy's blog was a good reminder.

65th wedding anniversary, 1999

At least she's honest

When looking through LibGuides that I mentioned a few posts back, I came across a library guide (don't remember the institution) for information on global warming. All of it led to sources that I would call pro-anthropogenic (human caused) climate change. One of the nice features of LibGuides is you can e-mail or text message the librarian who created the resource for additional information. Their photos are even posted--and I tell you, librarians today are much more attractive than my graduating class. Anyway, she responded: "This guide was created to support a teach-in that was not intended to present the other viewpoint." I'm not sure how a librarian assigned to a "teach-in" differs in responsibility from preparing materials for a regular class, but I suspect either way, you get the view of the librarian, not a range of viewpoints and studies.

Librarians always bring their personal values and viewpoints to their work--maybe moreso than some other professions. Librarians have a value system that is a blend of missionary and social worker. They are do-gooders in sensible shoes. When I was at the Ohio State Veterinary library, I purchased a nice collection of pet health books--the kind you can buy in pet stores for owners, not for researchers or veterinarians, the people I was hired to serve. It was my personal view, and it was not in my collection statement which gave the official version, that better educated pet owners would benefit both the animal world and the veterinarian. Also, I had lots and lots of unassigned gift money. In those days, my library was both the first stop or last resort for both children and adults because the public libraries had so little. Nor could a public library afford to buy books on relatively obscure breeds or pets (I also had an excellent collection for owners of snakes, flying squirrels, hamsters, rabbits, llamas etc.) I think I saved a lot of animals' lives by advising students to use a plant species instead of animal for their science project. If a beloved pet died, I often got the call. Well, was I going to describe Cushing's Disease in Fido from a textbook or a breed specific book? (And yes, of course, I would tell them to talk to their vet, but these people were in deep shock and grief.) And then you find out he was 18 years old and had practically been on life support for two years, and the owner was still grieving. So you put all those research skills aside and just listen letting the other work pile up. In my own mind, I justified stepping away from my primary duties as good PR for the college and library opting for the long range benefits rather than short term gain.

But I don't know why other librarians do what they do, except I know absolutely that politics goes with them to the work place. When you look at a library guide whether on-line or in print, look for what's missing.

Getting a head start on stealing the election

American Thinker poses a scenario where Obama and McCain are neck and neck after a last minute rally by McCain in the final weeks of the campaign. The polls are closed and McCain is leading by only 50,000 votes and then. . . our Secretary of State (register-and-vote-on-the-same-day Jenny) "discovers" some uncounted votes in Cuyahoga County.

"Meet Jennifer Brunner, Ohio's real life Secretary of State, whose actions in the lead up to this election have been so shamefully partisan -- violating both federal and state law in the process -- that it is doubtful any result on Election Day from Ohio is going to be accepted as credible.

Coupled with the outrageously illegal registration activity of ACORN and the shockingly illegal actions of the Obama campaign itself and what you have is an effort to not only "count every vote" but also steal as many votes as will be necessary for Obama to win the state on Election Day." American Thinker

Everyone in Ohio knows we have these thousands of phony registrations--people were bussed in to vote during that one week of same day vote registration. Legitimate, legal early voters saw them, saw the vans, busses and out of state license plates, the "community organizers" herding their flocks, some drunk and disorderly. Now Brunner's excuse, even as ACORN admits the problem that they've signed up all these non-eligible voters (more than we have voting age citizens), her excuse is there isn't time or resources to check all these registrations before Nov. 4. The Obama campaign has hired ACORN to do its dirty deed--to steal Ohio.

Our last Governor's term ended in disgrace because of some unreported golf games with cronies and an obscure fund raiser's misdeeds. This Governor, Strickland, a former Methodist pastor, needs to get down on his knees, do some soul searching and clean house or he won't even get as high a rank (50th) as Gov. Taft.

Sub-prime, from the archives

I wrote this April 25, 2007, complaining about the way the topic was written up in USAToday. It began with the obligatory sob story, and it wasn't until the middle of the article you found what was going down. Even so, I gleaned these facts from the article (perhaps the reporter figured the editor wouldn't read that far). I haven't changed a word of it, so all this was well known 18 months ago long before we knew this meltdown was going to happen. The only words missing are CRA and ACORN. It was reported in the news, discussed on talk radio and cable panels, and commented on in the blogosphere. And still people are falling for Obama's ridiculous lies.

A closer look at the middle paragraphs:

• Minority home buyers helped fuel the housing boom--49% of the increase between 1995-2005. [Note that this trend of "empowering" minorities by burdening them with impossible debt began under Clinton, and any attempt to reverse it has brought condemnation on Bush.]
• 73% of high income ($92,000-$152,000) blacks and 70% of high income Hispanics had subprime loans, compared to 17% whites.
• Lenders were supported by politicians and "community leaders" eager to promote minority home ownership.
• When Illinois (Cook Co.) tried to establish credit counseling programs for new minority buyers by targeting ZIP codes, the program was pulled as being "racist".
• Access became a buzz word at the expense of sound lending policies.
• Buyers/borrowers with poor credit or low salaries who wanted a cheap deal is a large part of the problem.
• Investigation by a counseling group found 9% of those in trouble were victims of fraud; the rest was poor judgement and poor financial skills.
• Rather than focus on the borrowers' poor financial skills, it appears that new regulations and programs will pounce on predatory lenders.
• Government investigations of charges even before the current problem came to light showed a "good chunk" [not my term] of higher loan cost is attributed to borrower's income, not to race or ethnicity.

But this is America, where nothing happens if it isn't about poverty, race, gender or disability.

And you wonder why I call Obama a marxist?

Actually, the real reason is all those Soviet history courses I took back in college, the PL 480 books I cataloged, and my Chinese roommate whose family lost it all under Mao, but here are three more reasons a bit more current, seen at the Taxman Blog about Obama's interview with Charlie Gibson. Gordon calls it socialism. I think B.O's well beyond that when you look at the encouragement by his campaign of sexism and misogyny, add up the millions coming from foreign countries that will never be investigated because of Congress, the thousands being illegally registered to vote in the swing states that can't be verified because of lack of staff and desire on the part of Democrat officials, and the felons in Florida swamping their ability to check. These are old tactics, maybe a bit more sophisticated than 1917 and 1949, but they still work:

Listen to Obama's interview.

1) He doesn't care if the capital gains rate increases Treasury receipts, he's raising it out of "fairness".

2) Democrats refuse to drill to lessen our energy dependence, even if it means struggling workers pay more for a gallon of gas. Caribou are more important than people....


3) Never mind that the end result of the Fannie Mae was a worldwide financial meltdown, democrats still think it's a good idea to push loans for people who cannot/will not pay them back.

He hasn't changed much, has he?

In an interview with Jet, Feb. 26, 1990, a pop culture magazine published in Chicago for African Americans, we find that no accomplishment of an African American is good enough, high enough, or satisfactory enough for Mr. O. Not even his own.

Barack Obama, a 28-year-old second-year Law student, was elected in balloting by last year's editors [student law review, Harvard]. Obama, a native of Hawaii, said his election shouldn't be seen as a sign social barriers have been broken down.

"I wouldn't want people to see my election as a symbol that there aren't problems out there with the situation of African-Americans in society," he said. "From experience I know that for every one of me there are a hundred or a thousand Black and minority students who are just as smart and just as talented and never get the opportunity," he added.

By 1999, 58% of Chicago's blacks had some college or a college degree; 54% were home owners; 39% were married; and 43% were white collar workers. (Marketing stats from N'DIGO). I'm sure the 2008 stats are even higher. And I'm just as sure, it's not good enough for Mr. O.

Can you name another nation in the 21st century with a black president or black presidential candidate who could claim statistics like this for his black population?

It's possible you weren't even aware of the black middle class because our race baiting media hide their wealth, accomplishments and achievements. It's also possible you didn't know that 100% of American historically black Protestants believe that God is alive and well, compared to about 63.6% of Mainline Protestants (mostly white). Unfortunately, about 98% of those God-fearing folk are going to go to the polls and vote for a false Messiah.